EA Announces Region Specific Cover Athletes for FIFA 10 - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 24 August 2009 / 5,178 Views

This announcement is coupled with the announcement of a date for the downloadable demo of the game which will be available on PS3, 360, and PCs to download on September 10th (Europe) and September 17th (North America)

Check out the press release below.

[quote]GUILDFORD, UK. – August 14th, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today unveiled the global cover athletes for EA SPORTS™ FIFA 10. Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard joins Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney as the face of FIFA 10 worldwide on each available platform— the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, Wii™, PC, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo DS™, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and mobile.

FIFA 10 marks the fifth year the 23-year-old Rooney has been featured on the global pack cover of the FIFA franchise while the 31-year-old Lampard is on the cover for the first time in the FIFA franchise history.

“It is an honour to be part of the EA SPORTS FIFA franchise. Being on the cover of this fantastic football video game with such a rich history is really a great achievement for me”, said Lampard.

The two football greats will be joined by numerous stars from all over the world on regional packaging, including Karim Benzema in France, Xavi Hernandez in Spain, Giorgio Chiellini in Italy, Bastian Schweinsteiger in Germany and many others all over the world.

Full list of pack athletes:

	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
GLOBAL	Wayne Rooney	Frank Lampard
UK	Wayne Rooney	Theo Walcott	Frank Lampard
FRANCE	Karim Benzema	Steve Mandanda	Guillaume Hoarau
ITALY	Giorgio Chiellini	Ronaldinho
SPAIN	Xavi Hernandez	Karim Benzema
GERMANY	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Wayne Rooney	Frank Lampard
NORTH AMERICA/ MEXICO	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Sacha Kljestan	Frank Lampard
SWITZERLAND	Tranquillo Barnetta	Frank Lampard
AUSTRIA	Andreas Ivanschitz	Wayne Rooney
HUNGARY	Balázs Dzsudzsák	Wayne Rooney
POLAND	Robert Lewandowski	Frank Lampard	Wayne Rooney

A full playable demo of FIFA 10 for the PLAYSTATION3 will be available for downloadable at the PLAYSTATION Store, for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Marketplace and for the PC at [EA Sports] as of September 10 in Europe and September 17 in North America. Play as Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Marseille, and Chicago Fire (MLS) and discover a football experience that will deliver a new standard for authenticity with gameplay refinements and innovations that will make it the most complete and intelligent simulation of football. In addition to playing an exhibition match, for the first time in a FIFA demo users will be able to upload created in-game videos to EA Football World.[/quote]

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starbruin (on 25 August 2009)

Sacha Kljestan is on the us national team and plays for chivas usa, odd choice if they wanted an american player you would think at least go for donovan

vcf1919 (on 25 August 2009)

THIS IS FOOTBALL, NOT SOCCER. Who is Kljestan? xD Xavi Hernandez and David Villa are the best football players in Europe(in the football world). PES sucks.

NKAJ (on 25 August 2009)

its football not soccer!!
lol yeah i think rooneys a bit old for the cover now

Lolcislaw (on 25 August 2009)

Rooney is the most overrated player on the planet

Neos (on 25 August 2009)

lol great ! Balázs Dzsudzsák appears on the hungarian cover!

Brilliant player from PSV!

Tbone (on 25 August 2009)

Is it just me or who´s tired of seeing Wayne Rooney on cover the last 4 years.

Munkeh111 (on 25 August 2009)

Good to see Lampard on there, best player in the Premier League last season by a mile, but why Walcott? He is just so average and overrated, and we have had enough of Rooney, but the details of the UK boxart at least are old

Solid_Snake4RD (on 24 August 2009)

@KylieDog

It just shows how little you know about football,you are one of those lovve to read shit tabloids that just keep spreading rumors.

Rooney is one of the best players.Even people who don't support his team respect him alot

youngjuvi (on 24 August 2009)

Why can't US get the UK cover.

BocaJuniors (on 24 August 2009)

Para mi EA esta en pedo hay 20000 jugadores mejores q rooney y lampard. Y en el global para mi hubiera quedado mejor messi y cristiano o ibrahimovich, pero bue lamentablemente los que mas compran el fifa son los ingleses, y sabes lo q hace la plata en el mundo xd. Ponganlo a Roman carajo XD.

zexen_lowe (on 24 August 2009)

Manuel, me estás cargando? Lampard???????

MANUELF (on 24 August 2009)

Who are the other two with Cuauthemoc?

quarashi (on 24 August 2009)

woot sacha kljestan, that pumps me up.

Cougarman (on 24 August 2009)

i am sick of seeing rooney's ugly mug in every FIFA game in the last 3 years, decent player though

Maynard_Tool (on 24 August 2009)

Cuauthemoc Blanco!!! Eres Grande.

I'm getting this, just b/c El Gran Cuau is going to be on the cover. Well not really, but that's great

salaminizer (on 24 August 2009)

Chiellini hahaha

too bad South America also gets the NA one. and considering that at least the PC version is localized, it doesn't make any sense to keep the same cover...

tombi123 (on 24 August 2009)

they've put 2 english players on the german front cover xD

why not have schweinsteiger, ballack, padolski/ribery.

Nobody from liverpool represented on the english front cover. good to see :-)