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FIFA 08, NBA 08 covered

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Aug 8, 2007 3:47 pm PT

Altidore, Ochoa named to grace North American boxes of EA's soccer sim; Amare Stoudemire to front Sony's PlayStation b-baller for a second time.

In May, Electronic Arts revealed that Ronaldinho would be the international cover athlete for FIFA 08. The publisher also announced that in soccer-mad Europe, many territories would see their own local stars join the Brazilian-born FC Barcelona striker on the game's box. Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos would be FIFA 08's cover player in Spain, Miroslav Klose in Germany, Andreas Ivanschitz in Austria, Tranquillo Barnetta in Switzerland, and Florent Malouda and Franck Ribéry in France.

Altidore, Ronaldinho, and Ochoa wage a triple attack on soccer fans' wallets.

Though the British cover athlete for the game is yet to be announced, today EA announced who will grace the North American packaging of FIFA 08 when it arrives later this year. New York Red Bulls striker Josmer "Jozy" Altidore and Mexican-born Club América goalie Guillermo Ochoa will flank Ronaldinho on the game's cover in all territories north of the Panama Canal. The move makes the 17-year-old Altidore the second-youngest athlete ever to appear an EA Sports game cover, after the then-16-year-old DC United midfielder Freddy Adu was chosen to be on FIFA 06's box.

In other sports game news, Sony Computer Entertainment America has selected Amare Stoudemire as the cover athlete for NBA 08. It will be the second time the Phoenix Suns power forward--who also participated in the 2006 All-Star Game and 2004 Athens Olympics--has been on the cover of an SCEA basketball sim, after NBA 06 two years ago. NBA 08 will ship for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable in October.

124 Comments

  • billybee360

    Posted Sep 11, 2007 9:25 am PT

    ronaldinho again they should get somebody who actually played good last year

  • BrazilianThing

    Posted Sep 4, 2007 10:10 pm PT

    Fifa gameplay is too fast and very straight foward like the Premier league, PES is more relaxed with more freedom, ball movements and more realistic abilities to dribble like the Brazilian league. However, Fifa has more options for single game play, more choices for entertainment and a bomb a s s management mode, PES on the other hand, gets kind of boring if you dont have anybody else to play with...thats why they are both cool, if you are a REAL futebol/football/soccer fan, BUY THEM BOTH and stop offending the sport's games!!!!!!

    Vai Brasil! treis a zero na Argentina!!!!! woooohoooooooo!

  • dev_ron

    Posted Sep 2, 2007 6:04 am PT

    i know he is a gr8 soccer player (ronaldinho), but i just don't want him to see on the cover again. my bad

  • Mamalykhan

    Posted Aug 20, 2007 10:27 pm PT

    Who in the hell cares about the cover even if they put a donkey I wouldn't care

  • owity

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 4:58 am PT

    Hey i jus hope they dont dissappoint us by bringing back lousy changes i.e by tryin 2 replicate Pro Evo, they should be UNIQUE, coz the aint EA GAMES 4 nothin!!!!

  • Keith4Chelski

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 2:21 am PT

    The British cover will probably have Gerrard and John Terry/Rooney i couldnt care less but buying a game that has Rooney on the cover of it makes me feel sick oow well i can always get a huge plaster to cover his ugly mush.

  • GTAfan88

    Posted Aug 14, 2007 10:57 pm PT

    i just dont care bout the cover, i just want some tricks actual tricks i mean futbol has evolved and another thing i hope you can actually create your pleayer and if you have 80 of speed he should be fast an not slow like in 07 and hope the cp doesn't have coordination problem with the ball that thing mess up 07 cp....

  • bullet53

    Posted Aug 14, 2007 4:55 pm PT

    memo ochoa is a really good goalie but doesnt really deserve the place in the cover,,, im mean....compare him with buffon...and i would love to see rooney on the cover.

  • brain20035

    Posted Aug 13, 2007 1:10 pm PT

    totally agreed lonsdale1472!!

  • lonsdale1472

    Posted Aug 13, 2007 9:07 am PT

    who cares about the cover its about the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • akabaloo

    Posted Aug 13, 2007 8:22 am PT

    @ macca2222

    hey put the players on the cover that are originally from that part of the country. The reason why A player from Mexico is on the cover is because the game is aimed at a North American audience. Personally I'd rather have someone like Clint Dempsey, Taylor Tellman, or Jimmy Conrad on the cover. Jozy will have plenty of time to get on there later

  • ov3rdance

    Posted Aug 13, 2007 7:17 am PT

    i will get one for the wii.

  • whacker40

    Posted Aug 13, 2007 4:13 am PT

    different players for each country? doesn't sound like it will be that interesting.

  • macca2222

    Posted Aug 12, 2007 11:37 pm PT

    why dont they let Americans have more real footballers on their cover...Lampard maybe, Drogba or Kaka' i'm keeping in mind that the american and mexican players on the cover are both good but they definently wouldn't be in the league of those guys

    and on the topics of Americans trying to patent the name "football" for NFL.......... what part of your body do you use again??? oh thats right YOUR FOOT hence the name FOOTball

  • Her0

    Posted Aug 12, 2007 4:37 am PT

    I really can't wait to kick off first football (soccer) game on PS3 since releasing console last year.

    Btw, the cover seems ugly, theres a better picture for Ronaldinho instead of this one. hes gonna scare us

  • Kayim

    Posted Aug 11, 2007 10:20 pm PT

    @Boobush: Actually, I think it's the fourth mexican in a row.
    2005: Oswaldo Sanchez
    2006: Omar "putete" Bravo
    2007: Kikin Fonseca
    2008: Memo Ochoa

    And it isnt surprising as I think it's the most played game/sport in Mexico (on any gaming plataform and in real life), so expect more mexicans to make it to FIFA's covers...Castillo or Guardado are up next I guess.

    Soccer, Football, Futbol, Futebol, Fussball, calzio, kick-the-round-thingie... call it what you like, it's still the same sport. Love it, hate it or ignore it. NO IN-BETWEEN POINTS!! j/k

  • buckster989

    Posted Aug 11, 2007 1:54 am PT

    who the hell are the other 2 players never heard of them

  • CarlosValmer

    Posted Aug 10, 2007 8:58 pm PT

    Actually soccer is the most popular sport. It goes all around the world. I mean, you dont see the NFL WORLD CUP do you?

  • French023

    Posted Aug 10, 2007 5:04 pm PT

    why does everytime soccer or football whatever you want to call it comes up people from europe go crazy bashing americans, what they do,and there sports? In all the madden forums and comment things like this do you see us going "this is the real football not some pu55y sport where all you do is kick things" no you dont. just because soccer isnt the most popular sport here doesnt mean we dont have the right to play the games and doesnt give you the right to bash our country

  • THEdjnme

    Posted Aug 10, 2007 4:51 am PT

    Ratboys...try playing it on a harder setting and then tell me that or better still play it online or even with a friend. Unless the other player is terrible you'll have a hard time scoring or even getting past the defence. Don't believe me ...? Got a 360 with pro?......then send me a game invite my gamertag is DJ NME. I'll show you why it's all about Pro.

    And everyone listen to rulo_reznor....the rest of the world can't be getting it wrong......IT IS FOOTBALL.....anyway american football is just a pu55y version of rugby.

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