7 not-so-well-known facts about the FIFA franchise

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4. It could have been ‘EA Soccer’

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Before EA could arrive on the name ‘FIFA’, one of the initial thoughts was to have the game named ‘EA Soccer’.

It was then renamed to ‘FIFA International Soccer’ after the gaming major thought that the initial name would not appeal to European markets. It also did not want to drain interest in its home market in America. So it kept the word ‘soccer’ while adding ‘international’ to it.

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The first game had only international countries and no clubs, unlike the case today where the game is more club-centric.

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FIFA International Soccer also became the first game to present the isometric view as all other 16-bit games used the traditional top-down view for football games.

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