13 women dropped from Federation Internationale de Football Association 16 game because of NCAA dispute
“FIFA 16” comes out September 22 on PC, Xbox One and 360, and PlayStation 3 and 4.
Others include Janine Beckie (Texas Tech), Rebecca Quinn (Duke), Spain’s Celia Jimenez (Alabama), Mexico’s Tanya Samarzich (Kentucky), Amanda Perez (Washington) and Maria Sanchez (Idaho State).
An EA Sports spokesman said the club had been left out of the game after failing to reach a licencing agreement with Rangers.
“We are extremely proud and excited to see both our men’s national team and women’s national team represented in a world-renown franchise such as EA Sports Federation Internationale de Football Association 16 and look forward to providing Canadian fans with another way to experience our brand of worldwide soccer”. The collegiate players will be replaced in the game by women who have played for the national teams in question. And in the end, NCAA and EA Sports lost from that case when a U.S. federal judge approved a $60-million settlement for college athletes in a class-action lawsuit filed against them.
EA said Thursday in a statement that the NCAA informed the company that if they put the 13 players, who are either attending schools or are likely to attend schools, in the game, the company would risk their eligibility. Their involvement with the game was determined by the NCAA to be a potential threat to their eligibility, EA said today in a news release.
Comedian John Oliver lambasted the organization’s treatment of its college athletes during this year’s March Madness season on his HBO show Last Week Tonight. He ended the segment with a spoof NCAA video game called “March Sadness 2015” where poverty-stricken college athletes fight to keep their sports scholarships while enduring verbal abuse from their coaches.
The soccer game has not had such problems before, since the men in the game are all professionals.