- In EA SPORTS FIFA 21 AS Roma will now be Roma FC playable and equipped with a custom badge and kit throughout. Contract Valid Until 2024 2025. FIFA 21 Mod Update16 June 21 - Licenze Juventus - Roma Serie B PC MOD Tutorial ITA - YouTube.
- As a result, AS Roma will be Roma FC in FIFA 21, playable and equipped with a custom badge and kit throughout Kick-Off, Career Mode, FIFA Ultimate Team and VOLTA FOOTBALL.
- AS Roma will be Roma FC in FIFA 21. Will have generic kits and badge and won’t have their stadium in the game.
Something is happening with the FIFA 21 licences. Once the undisputed king of licensing, EA Sports are finding it harder to keep that stature these days. Exclusive deals with the Milan giants - Internazionale and AC Milan, were announced, but at the same time, EA have lost one of the Italian capital teams - AS Roma.
EA Sports Sign FIFA 21 Exclusivity Deal with Inter and Milan
Last year revealed some cracks in the EA Sports licensing fortress. After years of pretty much undisputed dominance on the license market, the US publisher lost the rights to the most successful Italian club Juventus, who were known in FIFA 20 as Piemonte Calcio. Crest, logo, sponsors - all made up.
AS Roma will be Roma FC in FIFA 21. Will have generic kits and badge and won’t have their stadium in the game.
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Perhaps frightful of losing more ground in Italy, EA stepped up to sign exclusive deals with the Milan giants. Inter and AC Milan will feature with their original branding only in FIFA this year. So we want have any of that Intemonce and Milamonte Calcio crap. At least in Milan we won't.
Nick Wlodyka, vice-president and general manager at EA Sports said to Goal.com:
'Authenticity is incredibly important to our fans. Inter and Milan are two of the top three clubs in Serie A. We are making sure that we can represent them fully, authentically and now exclusively in our game'.
That's cool and all, but things aren't as rosy outside the city of Milan. Another traditional club with passionate following has been lost.
FIFA 21 Will Do Without AS Roma
After losing Juventus last year, EA Sports will have to say goodbye to the official licensing of another major Italian club. AS Roma have not given permission to the FIFA publisher to use their licensed product - badge, stadium, kits, etc. for the new release of the game. Just like Juve turned into Piemonte Calcio for FIFA 20, Roma will be called FC Roma in FIFA 21, and Stadio Olimpico will be dubbed Stadion Olympik. A lot less subtle than Piemonte Calcio.
Players and their likeness is still very much available to EA to work with, so at least they got that going for them.
In the past, licensing deals were usually done on league basis - you get the entire Serie A roster, not pieces of it. As we develop capitalism further, we might as well get to a point where publishers will have to negotiate separately with each player, which would be quite hilarious actually. At least for now, we're still on club level and Piemonte Calcio/FC Roma is as far as it goes, but Kelvin De Briane doesn't feel too far fetched in a few years time.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic caused something of a stir at the end of 2020 when he asked who had given EA Sports permission to use his name and face on FIFA 21.
It served to demonstrate that the question of image rights is a serious one for footballers and football teams, with financial considerations associated.
In many cases, video game companies such as EA Sports, Sports Interactive and Konami must negotiate agreements with various parties in order to gain permission to reproduce likenesses in virtual media.
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Here, Goal takes a look at the clubs that are not officially in FIFA 21.
Which clubs are not officially in FIFA 21?
The most high-profile 'absence' from FIFA 21 in terms of official nomenclature and team badges is undoubtedly Juventus - known as 'Piemonte Calcio' in the EA Sports game.
Juve's absence is the result of an exclusive deal the Italian club has with Konami, which has been in place since FIFA 20.
While Juventus are not officially in FIFA 21, it is in appearance only - EA Sports says 'generic kits and crests' are used. Real-world players, including the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Dybala, are still included.
A number of other clubs from Serie A are also not officially represented in FIFA 21, including Roma (Roma FC), Spezia (La Spezia) and FC Crotone (Crotone).
Club | Name in FIFA 21 |
---|---|
Boca Juniors | Buenos Aires |
Corinthians | Oceanico FC |
Juventus | Piemonte Calcio |
River Plate | Nunez |
Roma | Roma FC |
Spezia Calcio | La Spezia |
FC Crotone | Crotone |
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Argentine behemoths Boca Juniors and River Plate are known as 'Buenos Aires' and 'Nunez' in the game, meaning the Superclasico will have a different feel to it in the latest edition of FIFA.
One Brazilian club appears in altered form in FIFA 21 is Corinthians - donning the moniker 'Oceanico FC'.
Roma Badge
A number of other major Brazilian clubs only appear in the game in the Copa Libertadores tournament: Sao Paulo, Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Palmeiras, Sport Recife and Red Bull Bragantino.
According to EA Sports, Brazilian clubs launch with generic player names and are not included in Ultimate Team.
It is also somewhat complicated when it comes to international teams on FIFA 21, with a number of teams playing in generic kits and flags used in place of official badges.
Juventus is no more in FIFA! ☠
Long live Piemonte Calcio! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/3qQ4JYIVlZ
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The following international teams have generic kits, badges and players on FIFA 21:
- Ecuador
- India
- Uruguay
The following international team has authentic kit and badge, but generic players on FIFA 21:
- Brazil
The following international teams have generic kits and badges but real players on FIFA 21:
- Bolivia
- Bulgaria
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Cote D'Ivoire
- Egypt
- Hungary
- Italy
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portugal
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- Venezuela