![]() ![]() ![]() For a cover athlete with the sheer audacity to pull off the stunts Street allows - but without the marketing chops - look no further than Mario Balotelli. If EA Canada wanted someone to fit into Street’s dubsteppy chav aesthetic, Wayne Rooney would have been ideal. There’s no room for cocky individualism in the Nou Camp. His natural talent was nurtured by, and continues to flourish at, FC Barcelona, which is one of the most group-oriented teams in the world. Messi is efficient and graceful Street is abrasive and flamboyant. It’s puzzling, then, that EA Sports decided to use Lionel Messi for the game’s cover art. The somewhat mythologized sub-genre called street soccer - as presented by FIFA Street - is hedonistic and excessive, with a strong tilt toward showboating and theatrics.
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