Funny FIFA competition in Sweden

Players and Fans compete together in FIFA

This is a wonderful concept that exists in Sweden. In Allsvenskan, the top division of football (soccer) every team will choose one couple that will compete against all other teams in FIFA.

Lets take an example of Malmö FF since they are probably the most famous outside of Sweden right now after Champions League and all. The squad of Malmö FF are having a competition to determine which player is the best at FIFA. 

And I am not kidding. Professional footballers do have a lot of spare time to play video games on. So many of them are quite good I think.

Then the fans are allowed to come to a certain venue to play for the chance to be the partner of their idols in this FIFA tournament that is nationwide. Can you imagine the feeling that supporter must have. Getting the chance to play their (probably?) favorite video game in a 2-man team with one of their real life idols.

So every team does this. And then they start to play each other in a tournament.

In the games that I have seen they are actually playing with their own clubs. So when Gefle faces off against Halmstad it is Gefle vs Halmstad in FIFA. 

The games are watchable on the biggest football news site in Swedish and there are commentary from professional commentators.

The real league is called Allsvenskan. So this is called, E-Svenskan. They have really understood the value of eSports and this might be the beginning of something really cool in the future. 

Imagine E-Svenskan to be played an entire season where fans can follow the games via streams. There are at least a few years until that will ever happen, but it would be awesome. 

I love eSports, so I would love it!

The video below is from a final of a previous season. The commentary is in Swedish so the audio might not be very entertaining but you might get the idea. Fans cheering and everything.