Issue 06

ISSUE006NOV2018 

SPENCER OWEN 

Hashtag United founder talks FIFA esports 

and the upcoming Wembley Cup

LETTER 

FROM THE 

EDITOR 

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Publisher 

Justin Lawson 

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The Gfinity Elite Series kicked off last week and in this issue 

we speak with a number of the teams about the upcoming 

season. and the new format that includes 2 v 2. We also 

spoke with them about the added excitment of the auction 

where teams bid for players meaning that no two teams would 

have the same player.. 

Our cover star Spencer Owen tells us about what it’s like 

to go from YouTuber to owning his own football team, 

developments within the esports team and the upcoming 

Wembley Cup. 

If anyone is looking to sign a top quality player read our 

interview with Shellzz who has recently departed Unilad. 

Editor 

Chris Lafferty 

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Recently departed from Unilad, ‘Shellzz’ 

is looking to make FIFA 19 his year

COVER STORY 

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Spencer Owen 

Esports World Football chats to Hashtag founder, Spencer Owen about 

FIFA, esports and the upcoming Wembley Cup 

NEWS 

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News round-up 

Get all the latest news from the world of FIFA 

INTERVIEWS 

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Gfinity Elite Series 

Esports World Football spoke to a number of the teams about the new rules 

to see what they thought. 

Robert ‘Pughy’ Pugh 

Method’s manager talks about what it takes to be an esports manager 

Ask the pros 

We ask the experts the important questions 

London Esports 

We talk to Daniel Smith and Ife Aromona from London Esports 

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VFL Espanyol 

Bosley442 tells us his plans for the La Liga. 

VPG Scunthorpe United 

League One team Scunthorpe United enter the world of Pro Clubs 

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Villagers FC talk about FIFA 19 and their plans for the season

Simply the best 

There is no doubting who the form player is right now. 

Either he knows when to log on and avoid other top players or he is 

simply the best out there on the scene at present. With a months 

Weekend League record showing only one loss in 120 games he is 

outrageously good at the moment. 

That player is F2Tekkz and commenting on his performance he said 

“LETS GO! Played all 30 games yesterday and finished 30-0 That’s 

119/120 wins on month and my loss was on pens 1st in world 

weekly and 1st in the world monthly”. 

Tekkz smashes out his WL games in one sitting on a Friday, no 

messing around. Other pro’s would do well to steer clear of a 

Friday night. 

Elsewhere we have seen Damie hit his first 30-0 of the season, 

Yannick Reiners and Niklas Raseck both hit back-to-back 30’s and it 

is only Saturday night. 

With a skill rating of 2466 the most impressive aspect is how 

Joksan Redona wins the 

PlayStation Continental 

Cup 2018 in Paris. 

Against all odds, Joksan Redona representing Epsilon eSports 

wins the PlayStation Continental Cup 2018 in Paris. 

through a group which included FUTWIZTom and TimoX08 as well 

as one of the most inform players in the game Agge Rosenmeier. 

A semi-final survey entered by nearly 1,800 people had Redona as 

the least likely to win on the final day of the tournament. Over 50% 

had MoAuba as the potential winner with 20% opting for TimoX. 

Redona commenting after the win added “WTF have I just done??? 

Paris Continental Cup Champion!! Honestly an insane feeling still 

shaking. Top 1 never felt so good” 

However, on the final day and with no easy opposition we saw 

Redona dispatch MoAuba in the semi-final and go on to win the final 

against Tim ‘TheStrxngeR’ Katnawatos who represents FC Basel. 

No one would have had an easy route to the final and having got 

Speaking about his win, FIFA esports industry legend Chu Boi 

(Pictured above with Redona) stated “Don’t think this guy knows 

what he just did for NA. HUGE confidence boost for the pros from 

the region. BIG congrats to @JoksanRedona for winning the 2018 

Continental Cup!!!! The Defence of Dreams! #NAallDay” 

Özil signs who? 

Siddh “jenasid“ Chandarana one of India’s best FIFA players is the 

latest addition to team Özil M10 eSports. 

It’s clear to see that the main man Özil rates this player highly as he 

joins a stacked squad with some of the worlds biggest talents such 

as M10Usten and Squirrel. They also have a Brazilian Presende who 

was in the top 16 players in the world last year. 

Özil took to Twitter and wrote “May I introduce to you: Siddh 

“jenasid“ Chandarana is the next member of the @M10Esports 

family! @jenasidfc is one of India’s very best FIFA Athletes. 

Welcome to the squad!!! Team mein apka hardik swagat hai 

#M1Ö #TeamOzil” 

We don’t know much about the new arrival yet but we know that he was 

the Winner of The Studs FIFA championship. This shows that he clearly 

has a big potential and to be on the books of Özil and the agency eSports 

Reputation it’s clear to see he is a top talent and must be doing something 

right we are looking forward to seeing how he develops this season.

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anyone? 

These past two weekends MegaBit has taken it to another level 

to the point where people are questioning if he is human or not. 

He is on an incredible 120 game unbeaten streak across both 

consoles after playing 60 games per weekend. The level of focus 

and concentration required to do this is unobtainable for most 

pros, how he overcomes games where nothing seems to be 

working and finds a way out every single time without fail is 

truly unique. 

It is apparent from MegaBit’s interviews that he will always respect 

the opposition but on the other hand is extremely confident and really 

does believe in himself to beat anyone in the World when he plays his 

A-game and why wouldn’t you? If you are literally unbeatable in FUT 

Champions and already qualified for the first FUT Champions Cup he 

is having the best possible start. 

Gotzery goes 

to Epsilon 

European powerhouses Epsilon Esports have announced their new 

signing who will compete for them and represent Manchester City at 

the Gfinity Elite Series. Yannick “Gotzery” de Groot is the new signing, 

a German FIFA player managed by one of the biggest agencies in the 

game, Stark eSports who have players on their books such as Mo 

Auba, Megabit and Eisvogel. 

Gotzery had a decent year last year finishing top 8 at FUT Champs Cup 

season 2. He will be looking to build on these performances and do his 

best for Man City in the elite series. 

The move was made possible by Stark eSports who took to Twitter 

and said “Gotzery joins @Epsilon_eSports! We are very happy to 

announce that our talent Yannick “@GotzeryYT” de Groot joins 

Epsilon eSports & represents @ManCity at the Gfinity Elite Series.” 

He took to Twitter and said “30-0 also on PlayStation and Xbox!! 

This makes the perfect FIFA weekend a perfect finish for the FUT 

Champions Cup, 2x 30-0 and also my spectator record on Twitch 

pulverised it does not get any better!” 

Then the following week stated “BACK TO BACK 60-0! Also this 

weekend no man could beat me, only by I was unfortunately 

stopped once ( @EASPORTSFIFA defeat by Disconnect) I am 

super satisfied how I am currently playing-so it can be 

done! #FUTChampions”. 

Gotzery also took to Twitter and said “Glad that I can finally announce 

I‘ll be playing for @Epsilon_eSports from now on! 

It’s also a big pleasure to represent @ManCity in the 

@Gfinity Elite Series starting this Friday! 

Big thanks to my agency @STARKeSports” 

We are looking forward to seeing 

how the German performs at his new 

organisation especially in the Gfinity 

Elite Series.

Spencer Owen 

founder of Hashtag United, 

talks his love of football 

and the future of the club 

Hashtag, where did it all start? 

I’ve been making YouTube videos for ten years now and football 

videos for about eight. FIFA was the first thing that gave me my first 

traction on YouTube and football has always been my first love. My 

love of games stemmed from that. I’ve always loved football games. 

I have played other games, but mainly it has been FIFA, Football 

Manager and games like that. 

I actually made a documentary series about seven years ago on a 

non-league club called East Thurrock, no one was watching it back 

then, but it actually showed my love of football. I loved making FIFA 

content and also wanted to make real football content. 

Legends series. I could see how big it was and the potential for FIFA 

esports and anticipated how much growth potential there was and I 

really wanted to be part of it. I made the decision that I wanted to be 

there from the start and so we launched Hashtag United the football 

team and Hashtag United esports team. 

Tell us about the Wembley Cup? 

This started off as a kind of YouTube version of Soccer Aid for 

YouTubers. The first year we did it we didn’t have a crowd and it 

evolved into having a live crowd for the second and third years. It has 

evolved dramatically to the point where we had 34,000 people in the 

stadium last year and raised over £65,000 for Sport Relief. 

A couple of years ago, along with my brother Seb and girlfriend Alex, 

I wanted to do something off the back of the first Wembley cup, but 

we couldn’t do the Wembley cup every week because it requires a lot 

of money and getting the YouTubers together so often is difficult. 

So we decided to do something with more of a grass roots approach. 

We took the lads I have been playing football with for many years and 

combined with some of my brothers friends and started to film our 

football games. We started Hashtag United, whose name was a nod 

to the social media world many of us were working in. 

At the time I was getting involved in esports and I had started 

commentating on FIFA events, like at Gfinity, which produced a 

We have added different elements each year, Hashtag United 

football team played in it last year and this year we have 

another one on 25th November which we have already sold 

thousands of tickets for. 

In June this year, Hashtag United was 

selected to compete in the tenth tier of 

English football, how does that feel? 

It has been an amazing journey for us to get into non-league, when 

we started Hashtag United we discussed and dreamed about how 

far we could take the club. We grew a team and a fan base and we 

saw the potential with our ability but knew we would only be able to 


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play for so long ourselves. What would happen once we hang up our 

boots, will the team evolve past us which it has now. 

Steven Gerrard, William Gallas, Robbie Savage, Robbie Fowler— 

unbelievable players on the pitch. 

As it stands now we are top of our league and have won ten games 

in a row. We could not ask for more. 

It is amazing to have my own football team in the traditional F.A 

pyramid system. 

The aim is to create a sustainable football club and do the best 

that we can as a team. We would love to get promoted and keep 

on growing, climb the divisions but we certainly do not have any 

requirement to be in a certain division. 

Tell us about the Hashtag United Academy 

mini-series and was this a success? And 

any plans to do this again? 

This was a huge success. The winner, Scott Pollock, has been signed 

by Northampton Town and is now in the game FIFA. I made a video 

about this for my YouTube channel. 

He won our mini-series, played for us for a year and a half and got 

our Wembley Cup ‘Man of the Match’ in a game against players like 

Scott Pollock had trials for Crystal Palace before signing for 

Northampton. We also found several other great players, more than 

ten players came through the series and played for Hashtag. The 

mini-series was a great success and we plan to organise another at 

some stage. 

When did you set up the esports team? How 

did you select your first players? 

The esports team was launched in conjunction with a YouTube series 

called ‘The Spencer FC Game Academy’: our quest to find our first 

esports player. This was won by Harry Hesketh. Two and a half years 

ago there were more than 12,000 applicants, we got them down to the 

Gfinity Series HQ, created eight episodes and Harry won it and he got a 

contract with the Hashtag United. He was our first esports professional. 

No content like that had really been made for FIFA esports at the 

time and people were questioning why. There was no pro FIFA 

scene. Within a few weeks the first Weekend League started for FIFA 

Ultimate Team (FUT) Champs and Harry qualified number one in the 

world. Fast forward two years and Harry has qualified for nearly every

major event since and proved a few people wrong silencing some 

critics. He is right up there with the best in the game. 

The next two players we signed were Boras Legend and Tass 

(now FaZe Tass). I knew them both from the scene where they 

had been playing Legends events and I had been commentating. 

Tass won his first FUT Regional Champions Cup and our first 

trophy in Paris in 2017. 

Then we later went on to sign the likes of Agge, Hashtag Ryan and 

most recently Honey Badger. 

Tell us about the journey to becoming one of 

the most successful teams around? 

For us personally, we tried to pick the players that represent us best. 

We are a content driven world, we need people to be confident, to 

behave properly and represent us in the right way. 

There are a lot of great players out there but not necessarily ones 

that we would consider to be a Hashtag player. We have to be 

selective to make sure the Hashtag name is looked after and so too 

are our fans. 

on their terms. This time it was a team FUTWIZ player we were looking 

to sign. 

Tell us about the Gfinity Draft and what can 

we expect from the Elite Series? 

On FIFA, we drafted Shawrey on Xbox and Ethan (Ethan Higgins 

@HashtagEthxnH) on PlayStation, both really nice lads and 

doing good stuff. 

The draft concept is new and really different. As well as the players draft, 

there is the auction so no two teams will look the same. The format is also 

new for the Gfinity Elite Series, which means 2v2 is subject to yet another 

change. It’s all set up for an exciting series in a brand new format. 

Do you still play and how would you fare on 

the pro scene? 

I have been playing Weekend League so far this season and am 

currently on the border of elite getting 23 wins out of 30 last weekend. 

I used to be decent, I once beat the former World Champion Alfonso 

Ramos back in 2013 at West Ham, but that is my claim to fame. 

Currently, we are the most successful team out there in FIFA esports. 

We had the most players representing us at the FIFA eWorld Cup and 

in the run up to the event last august, we were very successful in both 

qualifiers and regional tournaments. 

It is difficult this year, what with a much more challenging format. 

However, we want to make sure that we give our players the best 

chances of doing well. We decided to prioritise the boys abilities to 

play FIFA in the right conditions. Last year, we set them up with a HQ 

and were one of the first FIFA teams to do so. 

This season, we have a brand new HQ and we continue to try to give 

them the best resources properly and we continue to take it seriously. 

The former organisation of Honey Badger 

took to Twitter and thanked you for the way 

you conducted the approach. Are other 

esports teams as honourable? 

As with any new and unregulated industries, some teams / 

companies do things the right way and some don’t. 

I certainly want to try and set an example as I am quite involved 

in the industry to do things the right way. As in this instance 

you are talking about team FUTWIZ who handled it brilliantly so 

kudos to them. At the end of the day it depends how long you 

want to be involved in the industry, if you want to be around for a 

long time or not. 

To have success in the industry you need to treat everyone as you would 

want to be treated. You meet everyone twice, once on your terms once 

I am probably better than most amateurs but the pro scene is all about 

consistency so although I could nick a win here or there against these 

guys overall they are so consistent, they are on a different level. 

You have done some great work for charity, 

how important is this for you? 

This is very important to me. I am actually starting a new series 

which I will be recording, I am going to watch or play 30 matches 

in 30 days on the build up to the Wembley Cup. I am going to some 

really cool games, gonna play some pick-up games with viewers, it’s 

going to be really cool and hopefully will raise awareness and some 

good money for men’s health. 

Would it be a dream to line up a fixture for 

West Ham to play Hashtag? 

If we ever meet in the league it will be a really sad day for West Ham, 

the quickest we could get to the Premier League would be nine years 

but that would take a lot more money! 

However, it is not that unbelievable that it could not happen, the team 

we are ground sharing with, Haringey Borough, are only a couple of 

leagues above us has been drawn against AFC Wimbledon in the FA 

Cup and this will be televised on BBC 2. 

If Hashtag keep improving and we get to maybe the first round of the 

FA Cup we could get a decent league team and maybe get a prem 

team if we got through. 

To one day play a team like West Ham would be a dream, maybe a friendly. EWF 


He’s one of the best players on the FIFA 

scene and despite his depature from Unilad, 

he is looking to do great things this season. 

How long have you been playing FIFA? 

I have been playing FIFA as for long as I can remember. I always used 

to watch my dad play video games from when I was little so my love 

for gaming started very early. 

When did you know you were good enough 

to turn pro? 

I always thought I was very good at fifa from around FIFA 13, but I 

didn’t really believe I could ever become a pro. After I saw Bacha win 

the FIWC Final in 2016, that kind of motivated me into trying it as I 

knew Bacha from Pro Clubs. So, in FIFA 17 when they introduced the 

new mode FUT Champions, the route to becoming a pro was much 

clearer and my journey began there. 

How did you get signed as pro? 

I guess my finish at the Ultimate Team Championship got me signed 

to Unilad, that performance put my name out there on the scene. 

What do you make of FIFA 19? 

What is it about Pro Clubs that you enjoy? 

Pro Clubs was where I began playing FIFA, at the time when I was 

younger, I loved creating and having my own player so Pro Clubs 

was the place to be. I think just playing with multiple people is what 

makes me enjoy pro clubs so much, 1v1s can get boring at times but 

when you’re with someone it makes it 10x better. 

Could EA do more for Pro Clubs? 

I think EA have just got to show Pro Clubs some love. It’s 

been about 3-4 FIFA’s now where they haven’t added anything 

new, simple things as; customizing boots, new hairstyles, 

accessories such as headbands etc... Simple things like that 

will make the game mode a lot better. 

How big could Pro Clubs get? 

For me, Pro Clubs could be a huge thing in esports but that’s just my 

opinion. I would love to play a 11v11 at a LAN event, I think it would 

be so exciting to watch and participate in. 

What are your goals for this year? 

My goal for every year is to win a tournament, but I guess we’ll have 

to wait and see. EWF 

It’s still the early stages of FIFA 19, everyone is still learning and 

adapting to the new game but its okay so far, but there are still a lot 

of things that needs to be changed. 

What was the last tournament you 

participatedin and how did it go? 

The last tournament I participated in was the Club eWorld Cup, which 

was in Paris, where I was teaming up with Gorilla. We went out in the 

groups but as a personal performance it was some of the best FIFA I 

played all year. 

Tell us a bit more about pro clubs, what team 

did you represent? 

In Pro Clubs, I play in two leagues, the VFL where I am currently at 

Arsenal and VPG where I represent a team call Seazon. 

How did your last season in pro clubs go? 

My last seasons on both sites went really well. i won the league 

and cups on both sites which is really nice but on VFL I missed a 

penalty to send VFL England home at the World Cup. Sad times. 

Recently departed from Unilad 

‘Shellzz’ is on the lookout for a 

new team

Gfinity Elite Series 

The Elite Series has a brand new 2v2 format. Pro 

players from each team will play co-operatively 

with their teammates against another rival pair. 

First legs on Xbox and the second on PS4. 

Another exciting new rule added for this 

season was that no team could use the same 

players in their Ultimate Team. Before the 

tournament each team entered an auction to 

pick their squads meaning if ASUS ROG army 

had R9 in their team (which they did) no one 

else could have. 

Esports World Football spoke to a number of 

the teams about the new rules to see what 

they thought. 

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What’s your view on the 

2 v 2 format at this year’s 

Gfinity Elite Series? 

Brian: It’s a good thing. It will be more fun 

because you are winning with a teammate and 

you are losing with a teammate and yet to enjoy 

a victory with someone I’m looking forward 

to do it. It’s not easy to practice, but I’m quite 

confident to play 2 v 2 with my teammate. 

What did you make of the auction? 

Mike ‘Gregan’ Ellis - Team Manager: At first 

it was quite confusing because I didn’t really 

know what the strategy was because we were 

going into an auction that was going to decide 

the whole season. I was quite impressed 

with the players in the team. We got Cristiano 

Ronaldo really early on. 

Brian: I was quite surprised that we got him for 

150 million coins. 

Who was your top picks? 

Brain: We got Stoichkov, Crespo and Cannavaro 

as well. Overall a really good team, but maybe 

I’m a bit scared about Cannavaro because he is 

fast and strong, but maybe a bit small. 

Mike: When you consider last season CR7 

was the highest scorer because it was so 

hard to defend against him and now some 

people’s defence is going to be worse, so 

I feel like having that power is going to be 

much more important this season than the 

last one. I think it’s worth a lot more than 

people realise having that outstanding player 

on the team. 

Is there any play that you 

missed out on that you would 

have quite like for the squad? 

Vitality Brian 

Brian: I would say Neymar. He went for quite a 

lot so we didn’t get him. 

How does your squad rate up 

against the other teams? 

I think overall it seems balanced but we have 

CR7 and I think he is one of the main attributes 

for us; he’s a game changer 

Who would you say are 

your main rivals in the 


Brian: It’s hard to say because 2 v 2 is new. 

Mike: I reckon Roma/Fnatic are going to be quite 

good because they’re all living in a house together 

so they will be doing 2 v 2 in the house and they 

are very close now, other than that everyone 

agrees that it will be tough to call this season. 


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are exceptional and they go straight in. What 

Gfinity have done has built a path to pro and 

given players the chance to become pros. 

What did you make of 

the auction? 

Kieran Holmes-Darby 

Our Focus was icons. So there are players 

in the game the Legends that have been 

brought back that are sometimes overlooked 

because players maybe don’t even know 

them, like Eusébio. So we focused on icons 

and we did manage to get Eusébio that was 

our star pick. We’ve got a good squad, that’s 

what the players tell me. We missed out on 

Cristiano Ronaldo, but then everyone would 

sit here and say that they missed out on him, 

he is by far the best player in the game but 

the guys who did end up getting him Vitality 

paid ridiculous amounts for him and that 

kind of ruined the rest of their squad, so 

actually we’re kind of glad we didn’t get him 

for the price he went for. 






It came as a bit of a shock to the players 

because this is obviously something 

completely new to them, something 

completely different, they’ve never played 2 

v 2 in any kind of competitive tournament, 

they’re used to just relying on themselves. So 

this is something that’s giving them a fresh 

approach to the whole FIFA sports idea. I 

think it’s going to be really exciting because 

it just adds a different element to FIFA, which 

has been missing. The whole communication 

element, normally on stage there’s not much 

interaction, there’s not much personality, 

now you might get a player jumping up, 

giving a hi-five, giving each other a hug, or 

maybe trying to throw each other off stage 

if someone makes a mistake. You get more 

interaction; it’s a bit more fun for the viewers, 

so I’m quite excited. 

Have you already worked 

out who will play offence and 

who will play defence? 

It’s not gonna be as simple as attack 

defend. It’s going to be much more free 

flowing. I see it probably being more like on 

a football pitch, the same sort of thing. If 

you’re playing centre mid with someone you 

can be talking to them about who’s going, 

who’s closing down, who’s sitting. 

When players are drafted 

in for the team do they have 

to prove themselves before 

they actually get to play in the 

actual Gfinity Elite Series? 

Yeah that’s fair to say. I kind of liken it to 

the NFL draft, so they have the draft system 

and they draft in rookies, they’re not drafting 

starters necessarily. There are some 

occasions where people are drafted in that 

I’m biased, but I think we got the best team, I 

look across the board and in my opinion we 

have the strongest. We got the most icons. I 

think we got like 6 icon players in the starting 

11, so you know; we’ve got, for me, the most 

solid team. 

Who would you say are 

your main rivals in the 


So far in FIFA we’ve not really built a strong 

rivalry with anyone. I would say the guys 

coming back, Reason Gaming, had previously 

established themselves as one of the stronger 

UK based brands and that is definitely a unique 

selling point as a brand. We are UK based and 

we focus on UK Talent. Some of the teams are 

European based so we don’t need to see them 

as rivals, but anyone who claims to hail from 

the UK we see as a rival, Reason, Hashtag, 

those guys, we see as rivals. 

As for the Gfinity Elite Series, so Hashtag are in 

our group and they are definitely the guys that 

we are looking to beat. If we can beat them 

then we should be ok. 




Gfinity elite series? 

Hashtag Harry: Yeah it’s good. I have always 

thought 2 v 2 has a big place in FIFA esports. 

2 v 2 allows each person to bounce off each 

other a little bit more and you get that reaction 

that you would never get in 1 v 1. It’s a lot more 

engaging as a viewer and obviously just more 

fun to be a part of. With regards to defending 

and attacking I prefer to attack I think everyone 

just wants to score goals you know I think 

that’s just natural in football, but I’ve not 

actually played any 2 V 2 yet so I’m just getting 

to know all the ins and outs of the 2 V 2 game. 

Hashtag Harry 

Hashtag Wes: Yeah it’s very exciting, once 

again, like Harry said from a personality 

perspective it’s going to be great fun. A lot 

of the Hastag lads are actually playing in the 

football team together so there is already a 

great chemistry there. 

Who were your top picks? 

Hashtag Harry: Have to say Gullit. He’s the best 

player in the game. It was a good job he wasn’t 

bought out first because we didn’t know the 

benchmark. Cristiano Ronaldo was up first and 

someone put in a bid of 140 million, so then 

we knew the sort of benchmark and what we 

were going to have to pay for the top players. 

Literally we bought three players and had 

spent over half of our budget and one of those 

players was a left back. 



Hashtag Harry: If we don’t win it then we can’t 

blame it on the team. That’s the way I see it. 

Hashtag Wes 

Hashtag Wes:. There was lots of strategy 

involved in the auction. At one point we were 

putting players up and not bidding for them in 

order to take the other teams budgets down. 

Is there any players that you 

missed out on that you would 

have like for the squad? 

Hashtag Harry: We got the players that we 

really wanted in Gullit and Pele. 

Who are your main rivals in 

the Gfinity Elite Series? 

Hashtag Harry: Well you’ve got Man City and 

Roma Fnatic. I would say the football teams 

that have esports teams attached to them. 

Roma Fnatic will be a good game. We’ve got 

them in the last game of the group stages. 

They live in a house together so they’ve got 

a good advantage. 



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the mindset a lot. It’s gonna take a little bit of 

experimenting too an extent to figure out the 

exact combo. 

Venny: For sure, we were playing a bit yesterday 

and I noticed the way I defend is a bit different. 

Some players like to be quite aggressive in 

defence where I like to take my time wait 

for the perfect opportunity to get the ball, so 

we’re trying to get a good balance, when to go 

and when not to and same with attack, some 

players are very fast, but I’m quite slow, take my 

time, so it’s just trying to find the right balance. 

What did you make of the auction? 

Pughy: I really liked it, even though it took a 

long time. It took way longer than expected. 

We had a good game plan and we kind of 

wound up with a very good team. 

Who was your top picks? 

Venny: I would say George Best; he’s like this 

superstar in our team really. We also got Figo, 

Nedvěd, Gerrard, Seedorf and Campbell. We’ve 

also got Kluivert playing up top for us. So we’ve 

got quite a lot of icons. 

How does your squad rate 


Venny: I think they are all quite balanced. 

Venny 

Pughy: Some teams have superstars, but weak 

support, so if their superstars don’t pop it in, 

their defence could crumble. 

Are there any players that 

you missed out on? 




Venny: Personally I actually like the idea. I 

think it gives us a different element of FIFA 

to think about. It has been the 1 v 1 system 

for so long, having a 2 v 2 system gives you 

somebody to play with. It gives the fans a lot 

more interaction. With 1 v 1 there’s a lot less 

celebrations, but now you have a teammate 

that you can engage in a celebration with. 

Also, different tactics come into the game, before 

you just had your own play style, but now you got 

somebody else’s play style to worry about. 

Have you already worked out 

who will play offence and who 

will play defence? 

Robert ‘Pughy’ Pugh: Nothing is set just yet. 

We are still kind of adjusting to it; you kind of 

have to get your groove. I feel that once you 

are up there on stage, I think that will affect 

We missed out on, Cruyff, Envy out bid 

us. They bid 125 million, which when 

actually compared to all the other big 

names was a really good price. 

Who would you see as your 

main rivals in this Gfinity elite 

series? 

Pughy: Reason have one of our players from 

last season so there is a bit of rivalry there. We 

want to beat them, but we also want him to do 

well as well. 



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Zimme: I think it’s good actually. It brings 

communication. It’s very different from 1 v 1. 

In order to actually play well one has to defend 

and one has to attack and everyone has to 

be the goalkeeper, as well, so it’s all about 

communication really. 

You can play on both 

PlayStation and Xbox, which 

one will you be competing on 

in the Gfinity elite series? 

Zimme: I will be playing on PS4 only, I think, if 

I have to play on the Xbox then that’s fine, but 

for now just PS4. 

CoJo 

CoJo: It will depend on availability, as well, 

for example if the Xbox Guy has qualified for 

an event that’s the same weekend as Gfinity, 

or something, then he might come in as a 

substitute to play on the Xbox. 

Which player did you spend 

the most on at the auction? 

CoJo: Socrates was the player that we spent 

the most on. Our frontline is a good mix of the 

kind of players that the guys have all used. 

That’s one big thing that a lot of players didn’t 

think about necessarily. There are some really 

good players, but if you haven’t used them then 

you’re not going to have the understanding 

of the capabilities of the player, so we picked 

players like Salah and Hazard. 

Are there any players that 

you missed out on? 

Cojo: Yes Mbappé. We actually submitted 

a bid that was basically a dollar more than 

the one that won, but we were two seconds 

late on the timer, so yeah we’re missing him 

and changed the entire way our team would 

have looked, because then we would have 

gone for Neymar and other players because 

of chemistry purposes, but it didn’t really 

work out. We had a backup plan, so when 

we didn’t get Mbappé, we went for Salah 

and Hazard, Premier League players we are 

used to using.. 

Zimme 


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Robert ‘Pughy’ Pugh 

Method’s Robert ‘Pughy’ Pugh talks about being the manager of Method, what he looks for 

when scouting players and who he would like to poach 

What’s your job as team manager? 

My job as team manager is essentially making sure everything’s 

running smoothly and players are happy. This means making sure all 

content is shared on social media, organising events/who goes to 

what and anything the players need. As Gfinity manager I’m involed in 

doing the draft, picking dates, making sure players know what’s going 

on, being at the live events and so you can imagine quite a lot. 

How does the Draft work? 

The draft system is pretty straight forward and worked well, all 10 

managers were logged into OnlineDraft where all the players are 

listed with their information. Depending on the order each manager 

picks a player, if you’re lucky you’ll get the one you want and if not 

you have 3 minutes to decide. After the first pick the order is reversed 

and the second draft for Xbox started. 

What do you look for when signing a player? 

For this season of Gfinity we had a few things we were looking for, 

Method’s mainly a UK based team and we were hoping to get more 

British players, with the right attitude plus knowing that our current 

players are happy with the picks is important for team spirit. 

As a manger do you choose which players 

play during the elite series? 

I guess in one sense I could technically change which players we put 

up, for the most part though it’ll be agreed our signed pros are up 

first unless they’re unable to play. 

What other competitions does the team take 

part in other than the Gfinity series? 

series and then the SFV guys travelled to a lot of events. I think 

more tournaments and events are always a benefit so would love 

to see more of these types of events although I think replicating 

Gfinity’s system would be incredible hard. I feel like Gfinity being 

located in the UK creates a great hub that makes it easier for all the 

international teams to group up and play, while that’d be far harder to 

pull of in the US. 

Which club is your biggest rival? 

For now all rivalries are just those who beat us last season, which is 

Vitality in Rocket League, UniLad in FIFA and last season we didn’t 

make it out of groups in Street Fighter so all the teams there. 

If you could poach a player who would it be? 

I could probably spend a lot of time considering which player 

would be the best to poach and why, if we’re strictly speaking 

about players who have competed in Gfinity I’d pick Gorilla as 

he’s a great player and seems to have real passion you won’t 

get in everyone. 

How good are you at FIFA, can you give your 

team a run for their money? 

Ah this is a shaming question, I sadly haven’t played FIFA in many 

years. I used to play it all the time with my friends and was okay 

(being the best one out of your mates doesn’t mean much). I’m 

hyper competitive and can pick up games quickly so while I’d still 

get destroyed by my players, I’d make it frustrating for them to play 

against if I had some good practice time. 

What’s your proudest moment in FIFA 

so far? 

All the pro’s we have compete in their respective games, on FIFA the 

pro season has started back up which is exciting as the off period 

can be slow. The current Rocket League team did well in the 

Rocket League Rival Series, which is the challenger version of pro 

I’ve been with Method for 6 months with a big part of that being 

the off season so right now I’d say my proudest moment was when 

Venny and Riptorek qualified for FeCWC in Paris by topping their 

group as they were pretty much brand new to the team. EWF 


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Ask the pros 

Where we talk to the experts 

Is 27 too easy...

“ 

Simon ‘Zimme’ Nystedt 

27 wins in my opinion is too easy because 

it feels like the matchmaking in Weekend 

League has been easier this FIFA compared 

to last FIFA. There’s usually about 28 games 

that you should win and 2 that are really tough 

to play, which means that 27 wins out of 30 

games is too easy if 

Daniel ’Dingo’ 

To be honest I think 27 wins is a bit too 

easy, due to the huge skillgap we see in 

FUT champions. Plenty of “bad” players 

who just play the game for fun are not a 

hard task to beat for players who takes the 

game serious. 

“Ovidiu ‘Ovvy’ Patrascu 

I think it is ok. It doesn’t mean you are 

qualified for any big events, you can just take 

part into the online qualifiers. 

The matchmaking should, in my opinion, 

be changed a bit, so that you play against 

an opponent who maybe has the same 

rank as you. This would make it way more 

competitive.

“ 

Klutch 

The target of 27 is ok, however, it should 

not cover you for the whole year. It should 

need to be reached once a month so you 

maintain a high standard of play and not 

just get lucky once. 

“ 

Conran ‘Rannerz’ Tobin 

No it’s fine as champs isn’t a true reflection of 

ability but this at least narrows down the pool 

of players. 

“ 

Adam Ryan 

I feel 27 is too low for verification...Considering 

you only have to get it once the whole year 

and it’s only 4 extra wins from Elite 3. A bang 

average player who gets Elite 3 could have a 

lucky weekend and then be competing in big 

tournaments all year taking up spaces in them 

and making qualifiers longer. There is already 

loads of players in these qualifiers so I can’t 

imagine what it’s gonna be like in a couple 

months. 

As you can see the majority, if not all the top 

players are currently verified and have hit 28’s 

or 29’s maybe even 30 so I think raising the bar 

to 28 is a viable option

“ 

Hibidi 

Yes I think 27 is too low. I would rather see 

players who have got T100, get verified 

instead. Too many players will get 27. 

“ 

HazardHeathFifa 

Tough to say. I don’t think 27 is too low, but 

permanent verification and online tourneys 

using friendly seasons with every single 

verified player seems aggressive and too 

ambitious from EA. 

“ 

Aerox Buzzer 

I think 27 is about right for Xbox 

because there is a lot more high level 

competitors in general and the matchmaking 

is therefore harder making it easier to drop 

games. Also, 27 wins is just to make it to 

the qualifiers, there you are competing and 

will have to beat some of the best players in 

the world to actually go to the live events, so 

I think 27 is fine because they then have to 

prove themself against the best to be able to 

fully qualify for a FUT Champions Cup. 


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London Esports 

New for FIFA 19. London Esports gamers 

Daniel Smith and Ife Aronoma talk FIFA 19, 

season goals and who they see as the best 

out there 


How long has London Esports been around? 

Daniel Smith: London Esports has been around for a number of 

years, but are mainly known for other games such as Dota, but as 

far as FIFA we are the first players to be signed by them. 

How long have you both been playing FIFA? 

Ife Aromona: I started with FIFA 11 and ever since then I’ve just 

been playing it constantly. I just felt this passion about FIFA and I’ve 

always been good at it. I mean at the beginning I wasn’t great, but 

as I practised I improved massively. 

Smith: I’ve been playing FUT since FIFA 12, but it wasn’t till around 

FIFA 17 that I really stepped it up and actually started playing 

competitively, playing pros and winning against them and just 

trying my best at FUT Champs. To be honest I was losing a lot of 

games, but playing pros always helps and it’s just about practice. 

What are your aims for the season? 

Aromona: I’d like to win a tournament. There’s a tournament coming 

up soon, maybe even reach the semi-final and hopefully qualify for 

the FUT Champions LAN events. 

Smith: Yeah I’m looking to go FUT Champions verified and as soon 

as that happens I will try and make it to a LAN event and go from 

there. I’m hoping by next year that I will be at a LAN event. 

Who are the best players out there at the moment? 

Smith: At the moment from what I’ve seen Tekkz looks really good. 

I mean he showed what he could do last year, personally I don’t 

think he was the best last year, but he did what he did at Barcelona 

and now he is taking it to another level only losing one game in 

Weekend League. 

your first 10 games in this FIFA you go 9 and 1 you’re not as 

happy as you would be last year because you know you can 

only lose 2 games to get into the verification, so I feel like 

it’s a whole lot harder to get verified or to hit 27 this year 

then it was last year. 

Smith: When you get to the sort of 25-26 everyone is matching 

each other, you’re always getting matched against a lot of pro 

players. I’ve seen some pros that have hardly matched any, but the 

majority are playing pros which I think is a good thing, but when 

it’s coming to who gets verified, or someone getting verified, and 

someone playing a pro and someone else is playing a gold 3 player 

it’s not exactly fair. 

Late Sunday or early Monday morning is a good time to play to 

avoid pros. We call them ‘Monday-morning-merchants’ but then a 

lot of pros also do play at that time just to finish their games so you 

can match pros at that time. 

Some pros play all their games on a Friday just so they can 

enjoy their weekend like Tekkz. He will play all his games on a 

Friday, but you know it doesn’t really make a difference when 

you play your games. 

Me personally I generally play until I lose. If I don’t lose for the first 

10 games, I’ll stop at 10. If you’ve taken a loss the best thing to do 

is stop just have a 10-15 minute break go have a drink watch a bit 

of TV. 

Aromona: Also if you feel like your last win was a very tight game 

and you can feel yourself getting tilted at the next game do not play 

because I did it in the first weekend and lost two games in a row it 

was so annoying. 

If you could change one thing about FIFA 19 

what would it be? 

Another player that looks really good and is going under the radar is 

Aerox buzzer he looks on fire right now. 

Aromona: I’ve got to agree with that statement, I’ve been watching 

Tekkz’ streams and he’s actually unbelievable. Like how he plays 

is unbelievable the skills he does and the way he dribbles and stuff 

like that is unbelievable. 

Smith: His style is very composed, he has possession and pace, but 

he is very skilful. He puts in a lot of things that a lot of pros wouldn’t 

expect you to do which is quite a similar way to how I play. 

Is 27 too easy on Weekend League 

qualification and is there a best time to play? 

Aromona: No. I wouldn’t say it was too easy because last year when 

you won your first 10 games, or you go 9 and 1 you’re happy, or 

you go 8 and 2 you’re happy, you go 7 and 3 your still happy, but 

Aromona: I’d have to say there’s so many. I’d probably say 

sometimes the touch is a bit weird. There are a lot of things to 

change, but you can adapt to those changes. I like FIFA 19. I don’t 

mind it, but I just need to adjust to it. Once I can adjust to it I’ll 

be fine. 

Smith: The thing is FIFA 19 is completely different to any other FIFA 

we’ve played and they’ve tried to increase the skill gap, but at the 

same time with the AI defending and with the corner goals you can 

literally sit back and let AI defend. Anyone can beat anyone literally 

anyone can beat anyone. 

You can pass it around the whole game and counter-attack and 

score a corner goal, that’s what is going to happen and I think 

they need to find something that’s going to increase the skill gap 

genuinely rather than keep having AI defending so OP, but I think 

that this FIFA has the potential to be one of the best we’ve played, 

but there are a few things that need to change. EWF 



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VFL ESPANYOL 

So how did you come to be running the team? 

We have always had an interest in Spain and after our endeavours 

in Italian football we decided to make the change. We feel that the 

the quick flowing passing play that is shown in real life is mirrored 

in VFL’s Spanish leagues and we wanted a new challenge. 

Tell us about your VFL career history to date? 

If I was to tell you everything about my history then this interview 

would be far too long. 

with a fellow player from Barnet, DuncanHD (la). Pairing this with 

Runny who bagged 21 league goals we found ourselves in the 

playoffs, unlikely as it seemed. We narrowly lost out in the Final 

against VFL Sassoulo, a lot of time-wasting (still salty). 

This left us eager to get us promoted in the next season, again just 

falling sort again after reaching the playoffs for the second time 

now. In the third season we signed I Wardy 7 I , who’d eventually 

become the clubs renowned ‘tap-in merchant’, we bolstered the 

defence with MorganDeacy and this seemed to be a top class 

addition as 3 from 4 defenders got TOTS, including myself. 

I started off on FIFA 17, with my friend JestingTerror playing for 

Swindon Town FC, which did not go as planned. Moving on swiftly 

we arrived at Barnet playing under Liam Lopez x. We enjoyed our 

time here and unfortunately lost the Capital One Cup Final against 

Bournemouth that season. 

We then moved to Italy playing for Hellas Verona under I Leadus 

21 I, This wasn’t a great season for us and management changed 

hands during it. JestingTerror took over the management and I 

became his Co-Manager, this was our first season in management 

and turned out to be quite successful. 

Once again made it to the playoffs and as you could probably have 

guessed we bottled it once again. Now into the fourth season and the 

new FIFA 18, we still had no silverware to show for it. Unfortunately 

we had to sell MorganDeacy and with the friendlies glitch that seemed 

to last centuries we failed to make the playoffs for the first time. After 

spending four seasons at Hellas it was time for a new challenge so we 

did a loyalty switch to Barnsley FC in league one. 

Moving to Barnsley FC we brought the core bunch of lads with us, 

Snake, Twisted, Eggy, Wardy. This was a difficult season for us 

and we actually managed to get ourselves relegated. 

We signed Snakeeye1994 and II TWISTED X II along with reuniting 

Following this management changed hands to Snakeeye1994 


From Swindon to Espanyol, 

we talk to Bosley442 and his plans 

for the La Liga. 

but for the most part the team stayed unchanged and with that 

followed two mediocre seasons in League Two and that brings us 

to where we are today 

the diamond in the rough, we find them anywhere really, the trialling 

page (standard), twitter,(somewhere out there), even Xbox groups 

(good luck finding people who know what VFL is!!). 

Which of the VFL leagues is RCD Espanyol competing in? 

What makes a player stand out? 

This season we will be competing in La Liga. The hope for 

this season is a strong league campaign with a good run 

in the cup 

Is it a highly competitive league? 

Someone who stands out would have to be capable of playing 

their position with a strong knowledge of the game mechanics. We 

also like people who we are able to get along with and have some 

laughs with, as we believe strongly in a solid team game with a 

good bond on and off the pitch too. 

I don’t think its ‘highly’ competitive per se but definitely everyone 

goes out with the win as the main objective but it is also a lot of fun 

at the same time. 

VFL over VPG why is that? 

I don’t think there is much of a difference, when I got into the 

game VFL had its game on the weekend and that just always 

suited me better. 

How do you select players when it comes to trials? 

We like to give everyone we can trials as sometimes you can find 

What formation do you prefer and why? 

Personally I am liking 4-2-3-1(1) so far in FIFA 19. I feel it gives the 

team a good mix of defensiveness with the two CDM’s while still 

giving us the width of the two LAM and RAM’s, which suits our play 

style with big target man/tap-in merchant Wardy(Wardinho) 

Can you get a spot in Europe? 

Well we are not looking that far into the future, we take every day 

as it comes and try to tackle that, we are definitely looking to get 

promoted but I don’t think many of us are thinking about Europe at 

the minute. EWF 



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VPG SCUNTHORPE UNITED 

League One football team Scunthorpe United 

have entered the world of Pro Clubs, Here 

they share their views. 

How did the formation of the esports team 

come about? 

Many of us have played together for a while under different team 

names and when Scunthorpe United FC expressed an interest in 

entering an esports team in VPG, we were chosen to represent them. 

How close will the links with the real 

footballing side will be? 

They too are really excited in seeing how their esports team can develop. 

Who is managing the team? 

Danny Pierce is the Manager and Jamie Cooper is the Co-Manager. 

We both have experience in managing Pro Clubs teams in VPG and 

feel we can do a great job representing Scunthorpe United FC. 

How have you selected players for the team? 

We are in contact with a representative of Scunthorpe United FC 

and we contact each other a few times a week. They have kindly 

offered to help with certain things (social media coverage, team 

advice, giveaways) as and when they are needed which is support 

we’re extremely grateful for. 

We have held a few trials over recent weekends and 

picked the best players that we have seen play. We have 

also chosen some players who are well known in the VPG 

community and have a lot of experience to make sure we 

have a solid spine to the team. 


we are extremely happy to represent Scunthorpe and try to 

become one of the best teams in VPG. 

Will you be looking to have a big squad? 

We are looking to have a consistent starting 11 and around 7 squad 

players, who will play a more rotational role in our team. Getting 

the balance right is important - we want to build good chemistry 

in the squad with regular players, without the same players feeling 

pressured to play all the time. 

Tell us about some of the squad? 

Some of the squad are players we have played with over the past 

few seasons; they’re a great bunch with great personalities. The 

players we’ve just brought in are gelling nicely with the rest of the 

team, and we are excited to see them excel. 

What league have you been entered in? 

Would you like to see some of the real football 

teams rivals setting up esports teams? 

We would love to see more teams getting involved and bringing 

rivalries from the real world into the esports world. 

Will the backing of the football club give you 

an unfair advantage over other teams? 

Not at all, we feel that just because we have the name it doesn’t 

mean we will get the best players available. VPG has some very 

strong and dominant teams who are not partnered with a club. But 

we are extremely happy to represent Scunthorpe and try to become 

one of the best teams in VPG. 

Can you get to the VPG Premier League? 

We have been entered into League 1 North, two divisions 

behind the Premier League. We think it’s great to start in 

League 1, mainly due to Scunthorpe United also competing in 

League 1 in the English divisions. 

We feel that we can get to the Premier League within a few 

seasons, we are just going to take every season as it comes and 

see where we are at the end of every season, this way we can reevaluate 

the team’s potential as we go. EWF. 


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VILLAGERS FC 

Esports World Football speaks with PS4 

team Villagers FC about FIFA 19 Pro Clubs. 

As a team you were launched in 2009, 

share with us a little about your history? 

We started as a group of friends playing a bit of FIFA besides 

Killzone 2. I used to be in a clan and after joining a FIFA Pro Club 

as a player, I decided to step up and be a manager. 

The first few years we only had Dutch players and only played 

Seasons. But since 2015 we became competitive and competed 

in FVPA, OGC, FCC, VFL and VPG. With VFL Real Betis we finished 

2nd in S31. In the European Premier League S8 we finished 2nd 

as well. 

As Dutch United 09 we were the champions of FVPA UK League 

Cup and Community Shield 2015, and OGC Division 1 and 2 in 2017. 

esports organizations and real life clubs to join. 

VFLe offers clubs to use a name of their choice. They organize 

both tournaments and leagues. It’s interesting to see what they 

will bring in the future. 

You have had some interesting developments 

recently, tell us about the merger with Dutch 

United 09? 

This brings us back to 2015 again. We played in the FVPA with 

them and always had a good bond together. We liked playing 

against each other and there was a healthy rivalry between us. I 

liked the way they ran their social media and they became very 

popular in a short period of time. 

Now as Villagers FC, we won the VPG Europa Cup S9 in 2018. 

What league are you currently competing in? 

VFL eSports and VPG Championship South. VFLe was previously 

VFL Competitive. I spoke a lot to Jack Maddox (now PS4 Head 

Admin of VFL) about VFLe and how it could be interesting for 

clubs to join. 

In my opinion, the regular VFL in weekends isn’t interesting for 

They became even bigger when they merged into Villagers FC as 

part of Sinai Village. After quite a while, Bette Jalle decided to 

leave Sinai Village. I had some conversations with organizations 

as well. Both Dutch as international organizations. For example 

Flash Point eSports, ECV eSports, Team Gullit and more. All 

amazing organizations who were open to Pro Clubs, but not in the 

near future. 

Sinai were interested from the start and we didn’t need much time 

to merge Dutch United 09 into Villagers FC

So how big is the squad right not and are 

you looking for more additions? 

At the moment we are trialling again. We joined the VPG a bit late, 

so most clubs are completed. But we are always looking to become 

better. We were 2nd last season in the VPG eSports Prem. But I 

had to step down because of the lack of time due to my wife being 

pregnant and an escalated disagreement with the VPG owner. 

Another thing, we all hate pay-to-win in games. I don’t think paying 

should lead to certain advantages for clubs. 

How do you aim to develop the team? 

By playing together a lot and staying positive and respectful 

towards each other. When people have fun while playing, they will 

play better. That is my motto. 

Luckily, everything is taken care of and we are looking forward 

playing both VFLe and VPG once again. 

How do you recruit players and what do 

you look for in trials? 

Mainly by using Twitter and mentioning VFL/VPG. When they 

retweet, I receive many DM’s. And of course, I ask my players if 

they know people who want to trial for us. 

How does the team practise and what 

drills do you do? 

We play Seasons or arrange some friendlies. I try to actively coach 

in game. 

Whats the aim for this season? 

We started rebuilding Villagers FC obviously, but hope to be 

promoted into the VPG eSports Prem again. 

I’m also looking forward to the development of VFL eSports. 

That’s really something very interesting for many clubs. 

What are the biggest problems with 

running a team on the Pro Club scene? 

Can Pro clubs become commercial? Can you grow your fan base? 

Yes, it can. When I take Epsilon eSports as the example. 

Everybody wants to beat them, it is the team to beat. We all know 

they are the best nowadays and most of the Pro Clubs community 

have massive respect for them. And they deserve it as they put in 

so much effort. 

And yes, we can grow our fan base. Villagers FC/Sinai has a really 

good name in the Pro Clubs community as well. I receive many 

DM’s from people who played for Villagers FC before or want to 

join. The cool designs I get from Sinai really help. 

What can the various leagues like VPG and 

VFL do to develop the game further? 

It’s dificult. VFL and VPG do what they can. They have a huge 

fanbase on twitter and try to contact the people at EA. But EA in 

the end are the ones who need to develop the game. And I don’t 

feel like they are listening to their community at all. Nothing 

changed in FIFA 19, not even the layout. 

What would you like to see from FIFA? 

Being able to create set pieces. New hairstyles, beards, tattoos. 

Being able to create own kits and upload your own logo. 

Loyalty. I think everybody in the Pro Clubs scene agrees. 

Within your league what are some of the 

frustrations you face? 

Admins do their best obviously. It’s not a paid function, so I have 

much respect for them. For me, it’s the rules. They should be 

clear for everyone. Like reschedules, every manager knows the 

playing days and times when joining a league. If you can’t make 

it, don’t join. 

There was a feature years ago called GameFace. Which works 

good in UFC. How cool would it be if you could play with your own 

face on your pro? 

Do not put CB in the wall when a free kick is taken. 

Add the Arena to Pro Clubs so you can practice with your team. 

Still being able to see player stats for your club after they leave to 

play somewhere else. 

The waiting is also horrible. 15-20 minutes of delay is too long. I 

feel like 5-10 minutes would be long enough. But that it up to the 

owners to decide. 

And I can go on like this forever... If EA would listen to their 

paying community for once, we could make it the best game 

mode on FIFA. Guaranteed. EWF

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