Cristiano Ronaldo Replaced by Real Madrid’s Eden Hazard and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk on FIFA 20 Cover

Juventus has ended their contract with EA Games which manufactures the famous football game FIFA 2020 which means the Japanese company lost the licensing rights over their official kits and logos. With this, they would obviously lose Cristiano Ronaldo who is a part of Juventus and thus resulted in EA Games sliding by 3.2%. The company then made an imaginary club for CR7 to be featured in the game. Now the cover of the upcoming edition of FIFA does not have CR7. The Juventus star footballer has been replaced by Real Madrid’s Eden Hazard and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk. EA Games Lose Licensing Rights to Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus Football Club; Slides by 3.28%. 

Talking about team Juventus the team has signed up a deal with e-football Pro Evolution Soccer. EA Games revealed the covers of FIFA 2020 were revealed by the official account of EA Games. FIFA had earlier put CR7 on their covers but after the rape allegations on the star footballer, he was replaced by Neymar, Kevin De Bruyne, Paulo Dybala midway.

Check out the covers of FIFA 2020.

In the statement released by EA Games, the company had said that the players of Juventus will be available but with a fictional club name called Piemonte Calcio. Piemonte is a place in Italy where Juventus is located. The newest version of FIFA is scheduled to release on September 27. Whereas, e-football Pro Evolution Soccer will release in the first week of September a little before EA Games would launch their game.

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