Russian Premier League in Fifa
The Russian Premier League is widely considered the 7th most competitive league in Europe. For reference, Players of the Russian league have a greater total value than the highest Scottish, Danish, Swiss, and Swedish leagues combined; all of which are fully playable in Fifa 21. Russia had three teams in the Champions League, a competition exclusively licensed by EA, just this past year. Two of the three teams, Krasnodar and Zenit St Petersburg, are completely absent from Fifa 21. The three Russian teams present in Fifa 21 are Spartak Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, and CSKA Moscow, and apart from this there are several players from the Russian League who are still playable in the game due to their place on their respective national teams such as Matthias Normann (Norway) or Wilmar Barrios (Columbia). However, some of the best players in the Russian league belong to either a competitive nation such as Brazil and are not part of their national team, or to nations without a playable national team in the game; meaning that high quality and high value players that play in the Russian league have been completely unplayable in Fifa for the past few years. Some of these players include Sardar Azmoun, a 26 year old $25m Striker from Iran, Malcolm Olivera, a $26m 23 year old from Brazil, Matvey Safonov, a $17m 21 year old Russian goalkeeper, or Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, a 19 Year old wonderkid from Georgia with a value of $11m. As a fan of the league, I would of course like to see the league licensed and fully represented in the game, but any fan of football should be able to recognize the sizable gap the absence of the league leaves on Career Mode and several other elements of Fifa 21. I’m obviously not asking for the league to be suddenly playable with the next patch update, but I really do think adding the league should definitely be a priority for EA going into Fifa 22.
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Not to mention coach fights.
EA did actually host a voting poll a year or so ago, where fans/players were given the chance to vote once for which league they wish to see in FIFA next. However, this poll was completely raided by Indian fans and I'm not sure many Europeans even knew about this. They had the poll on its own web page and I voted myself for the Ukrainian League.
Whenever this type of discussion comes up, there are always a handful of leagues that people mention. These leagues are the Russian League, Ukrainian League, Greek League, Czechia League, Croatian League and Bulgarian League. Yes, these leagues are all European, however, these leagues often have teams frequenting the Champions League and Europa League and so, at the very least EA should include a few teams from each league in the Rest of the World section, whilst still bringing a couple of the league's in full to the game each year. This might be a big ask, but it's time for some fresh leagues in FIFA, so come on EA!
The Russian League is definitely the most important on the list and it is even more evident with the fact that this forum exists. We need to make them listen to us and share this around everywhere we can!
Greek League currently sits at the top, which isn't a bad thing, but we need the Russian League to return!
I want that league back in the game too, but on this matter, I’m not pointing EA as the responsible for this situation, the Russian league is imo.
Even with national teams
who runs this things? is there a twitter @ we can go yell at?
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