Ivan Toney has been removed from the game due to a gambling scandal.
Ivan Toney is removed from FIFA 23 for betting against his team in real life
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FIFA has many deliveries behind it and over time it has had to remove many cards from the game for different reasons. By deathsas happened with Junior Malanda, for sanctionsas happened with Luis Suárez for the bite to Chiellini, or for legal convictionsas was the case with Benjamin Mendy.
Now, after the last title update, a new footballer has been eliminated of the same. Not in envelopes, not in Ultimate Team, not in career mode, not even in quick match. Ivan Toney has disappeared from FIFA 23 as punishment by EA after the English striker has been sanctioned by the authorities of the Premier League with 8 months of inactivity.
The reason is that it has been discovered that the Brentford footballer repeatedly bet against his own team, something that in English football is prohibited. In fact, It is not allowed to be part of any type of bet that is related in any way to the work or performance of a player, considering that doing so Premier League regulations are being violated.
Many users call EA hypocritical
Fifa literally promote gambling to children. This whole thing is so fucking pathetic https://t.co/gT9RhzpxAC
— Luke (@Lukedutchh) May 27, 2023
There have been many users of FIFA 23, especially English fans of the first division of their country, who They have not taken this decision well.
Led by Luke Dutcha Twitch streamer who has more than 60,000 followers on the purple platform and more than 37,000 on Twitter, the complaint of these fans is based on the little self-criticism of the company creator of the famous soccer video game.
They argue that, while they eliminate a soccer player for gambling, they promote gambling in children with Ultimate Team envelopes. In addition, Luke himself has not hesitated to dismiss as hypocrite to the company, which he accuses of not being able or recognizing that the “loot boxes”which in FIFA are shaped like envelopes, are a way to bet.
The truth is that this controversy with FIFA Ultimate Team envelopes is not new. A couple of weeks ago, an Austrian court ordered PlayStation to return the money spent on packs to a user when considering it a form of illegal gambling.
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