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Preview & How to Watch Paulo Neto in the FIFAe World Cup



Paulo Neto will become the first eSports athlete to represent Atlanta United in a FIFAe World Cup. The tournament will return this year in Copenhagen, Denmark from Thursday, July 14 to Sunday, July 17, after a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Paulo had also qualified last year.To get more news about bongda24h, you can visit 24h.live official website.

The FIFAe World Cup is a tournament held annually in conjunction by FIFA, soccer's governing body, and EA Sports, one of the leading video game developers in the world and presenting partner, and just like its physical counterpart, it is the most prestigious tournament a FIFA gamer could hope for. Each year, the tournament is played under the most current iteration of the FIFA video game franchise, in this case the players will use FIFA 22.
The first FIFAe World Cup was played in 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland making this year’s competition the sixteenth in history, and it has been hosted by nine different countries, with Los Angeles and New York City the only two host cities from the United States. Because millions of people compete in the initial online stages to qualify to the event, it has been recognizes as the largest online eSports game by the Guinness World Records.

The current champion is German Mohammed Harkous, better known in the Gaming community as MoAuba, who defeated 2018 World champion Mosaad Aldossary (Msdossary), in 2019 in London. MoAuba will not compete in this year’s FIFAe World Cup.

Atlanta United will be represented by Paulo Neto, our Brazilian gamer who has been with the club since December 2019. Only one Brazilian has won the competition so far, Thiago Carrico de Azevedo in 2004, and nobody representing an eMLS club has even made it to the final… yet.It’s a great question! Similar to how soccer players get to represent their country in the FIFA World Cup, a gamer gets the opportunity to compete in the FIFAe World Cup with the backing of a club or eSports organization. In this year’s competition all the gamers, except one, belong to a team just like a soccer player has a contract with his corresponding club.

Paulo Neto, 19, signed with Atlanta United in December 2019, after playing for one year with Brazilian eSports powerhouse SPQR. Together, Paulo and ATL UTD, have won six tournaments, including the eMLS Cup 2022, the FGS 22 Masters Cup (with Vini Leiva) and the eMLS Tournament Special at the beginning of the pandemic where he played alongside former ATL UTD defender Franco Escobar.

In November 2021, Atlanta United also signed Brazilian Vini Leiva, 24, becoming one of the first soccer organizations in North America to have a 2v2 team. Leiva has represented ATL UTD already in five tournaments, winning the FGS 22 Masters Cup and two other Top 4s. Vini is not an eMLS player but does represent Atlanta in international competitions.

There are also two other tournaments that will be played in Copenhagen in the coming weeks, the FIFAe Nations Cup and the FIFAe Club World Cup, but neither Paulo or Vini will participate in them this year.In years past both PlayStation and Xbox consoles were used, but for 2022 PlayStation 5 became the official console of the FIFA22 professionals competitions, and it’s what will be used this week in Copenhagen.

While only the top 32 FIFA gamers have gathered in Denmark this year, the tournament was open to anyone who loves to play FIFA and was registered in the FIFA 22 Global Series (FGS). To qualify to the FIFAe World Cup, gamers needed to first reach the Elite Division and compete in a series of local and regional online and in-venue tournaments.

At the end of the FGS season, 128 gamers gathered to compete in the FGS Playoffs, which took place in London earlier this month and served as the qualifiers to the FIFAe World Cup. Out of those 128 gamers, 32 earned their spot in the World Cup, among those Paulo Neto. Vini Leiva also competed in the FGS Playoffs but unfortunately failed to qualify to the FIFAe World Cup.