EA to lose Diego Maradona from FIFA 22 ICON roster after messy legal dispute EA SPORTSEA SPORTS are set to lose Diego Maradona as an ICON card in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, after the football franchise publishers came out second best in a messy rights dispute over the Argentinian legend\u2019s likeness. Diego Maradona has been in FIFA\u2019s Icon roster \u2014 once \u201cLegends\u201d cards \u2014 since 2018, celebrating the football star\u2019s glittering career in three rare collectibles. According to Argentinian news site Infobae (via Eurogamer), that is set to come to an end after a judge recognized the trademark claims on Maradona and his likeness by lawyer Matias Morla. They won the suit over Maradona\u2019s manager Stefano Ceci, who could not produce relevant legal documents. Morla apparently seized control of the Maradona brand last August and has been consolidating rights around his name, brand, and image since then. Ceci\u2019s alleged rights to his images were one of the last dominoes to fall. The issue for EA SPORTS arises due to their agreement with Stefano Ceci, which is now expected to be voided by the Morla estate, removing Maradona from FIFA. Right now, two of Diego Maradona\u2019s ICON cards are still available in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, while all three of his FUT ICON versions can be purchased in FIFA 21\u2019s playlists. The Argentinian\u2019s cards are some of the best in the competitive FUT game mode, and his 95-rated CAM card \u2014 the best on the market for the former Napoli champion \u2014 costs players more than two million coins. Players would lose these cards if FIFA 22 withdraws his rights. Federal judge Marceloa Gota told EA SPORTS that they must \u201cimmediately cease the use of indicated brands by whatever means they are carrying out.\u201d That includes \u201cusing images on all platforms, and [titles] including FIFA 21, FIFA Ultimate Team, FIFA Street, and FIFA World Class Soccer.\u201d Also mentioned in the court\u2019s cease-and-desist order is Football Manager, which often allows fans to sign past franchise players via DLC updates. Following Maradona\u2019s death last year, EA SPORTS held a celebration for the Argentinian legend in their then-current title, FIFA 21. They added a Maradona tifo and Argentinian national team kits to the FUT clubs of all active players \u201cto respectfully honor and celebrate the life of a true icon.\u201d EA has yet to publicly comment on the possible Maradona removal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EA to lose Diego Maradona from FIFA 22 ICON roster after messy legal dispute EA SPORTSEA SPORTS are set to lose Diego Maradona as an ICON card in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, after the football franchise publishers came out second best in a messy rights dispute over the Argentinian legend\u2019s likeness. Diego Maradona has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}