{"id":2290,"date":"2015-07-21T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2015-07-21T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:27:07","slug":"eas-fifa-16-to-put-women-on-the-cover-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"EA\u2019s FIFA 16 to put women on the cover for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts announced yesterday that the United States cover of <em>FIFA 16<\/em> will feature the US Women\u2019s National Team Forward, Alex Morgan, alongside FC Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi, with different women appearing on the cover based on region.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>FIFA 16<\/em> marks the first appearance of women\u2019s teams in the series and is the most prominent game to do so by far. It makes sense, then, to feature some of the more prominent athletes in the women\u2019s league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honor to be one of the first women featured on the cover of <em>EA Sports FIFA<\/em>,\u201d said Morgan in a prepared statement. \u201cI know people all over the world play this game and I\u2019m really excited that <em>FIFA 16<\/em> is putting such an important spotlight on women\u2019s soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, Morgan will be replaced by Captain of the Canadian Women\u2019s National Team Christine Sinclair, while Australia\u2019s release will feature Australian Women\u2019s National Team Defender Stephanie Catley.<\/p>\n<p><em>FIFA 16<\/em> releases September 22 on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts announced yesterday that the United States cover of FIFA 16 will feature the US Women\u2019s National Team Forward, Alex Morgan, alongside FC Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi, with different women appearing on the cover based on region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}