‘I hope to excite as many gamers as I do when I take the field for Real Madrid this season!’: Eden Hazard and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk unveiled as cover stars for FIFA 20 video game
- The cover stars for next year’s FIFA 20 video game have been unveiled by EA
- Real Madrid’s £150m new boy Eden Hazard will front up the standard edition
- Meanwhile Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk will be on the Champions edition
- The popular Electronic Arts game will be released worldwide on September 27
Eden Hazard and Virgil van Dijk have been unveiled as the cover stars for next year’s edition of FIFA.
FIFA 20 will see Real Madrid’s £150million recruit Hazard on the front cover of the standard edition, while Liverpool’s Van Dijk will front up the Champions edition.
The game will be released worldwide on September 27, with the Champions League version available three-days earlier via pre-order.
Real Madrid’s new signing Eden Hazard will be on the front cover of FIFA 20’s standard edition
Meanwhile, Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk will be on the cover of the Champions edition
Hazard said he ‘hoped to excite as many gamers as I do when I take the field for Real Madrid’
Van Dijk revealed he is an avid player of the game and described the cover as a ‘huge honour’
Speaking about the new front covers, Hazard said: ‘EA SPORTS FIFA is the biggest Football game on the planet, and I have been playing it for years against my brothers.
‘I am lucky to have been on the cover before but to be on FIFA 20 globally is amazing and I hope to excite as many gamers as I do when I take the field for Real Madrid this season!’
Holland international van Dijk added: ‘It is a huge honour for me to be on the cover of FIFA 20.’
‘I’ve been playing FIFA for as long as I can remember and so it’s an extremely proud moment for me to be representing Liverpool on the cover of such an iconic game’.