FIFA has brought memories to last a lifetime over the years. The game is loved around the world for being the closest thing to real-life football. So much so, that today if you compare two television screens next to each other, one with a live football match and another with a FIFA game, you probably will not be able to tell the difference.
The game has morphed into something of a saviour for gamers who want to get as close as possible to playing the actual match and mixing it up with the very best players in the world. However, even FIFA has its fair share of issues and glitches.
Every game is glitchy and FIFA is clearly no different. But the fact of the matter is that the game has come a long way since the glitches of the 90s but hasn’t quite become perfect just yet. These photos are purely fun-depictions of what some gamers noticed and decided to bring our attention.
Here are the 5 most awkward FIFA photos that will make you rethink your existence.
#1 Water, water everywhere?
In a bizarre turn of events, somehow Cristiano Ronaldo ended up swimming...on the pitch! Clearly taking the term “diving” to a whole new level, Ronaldo here finds himself celebrating in pretty awkward fashion.
The screen grab from FIFA proves that the game is glitchier than one might believe and I’m sure the image would have had the gamers playing this particular match on FIFA, in absolute splits. Ronaldo seems to be blissfully unaware of what he has just pulled off, making this possibly the greatest goal celebration of all time.
#2 Piercing the back line?
Here we see one of the greatest players of all time Zlatan Ibrahimovic terrorising goal keepers like always. Just in a slightly different format as you might think.
Ibra has been known to be a character on and off the pitch but this might just be taking it to a whole new level perhaps. Seemingly unhappy with a possible missed chance, the talismanic Swede just decided to take matters into his own hands. Or whatever this might be.
The keeper has no idea too, or maybe it’s just something they’re taught to be prepared for when Zlatan is in the opposition strike force.
#3 All tangled up
This one here is all about timing. Unlike Zlatan and Cristiano’s urge to make it to the footballing spotlight, here we have a defender belonging to a team we can’t quite make out but Mario Gomez from Germany sure can. Taking matters into his own hands, this young man decides to bring down Gomez...and keep him there.
Yes fouls happen on the pitch all the time and the defender was possibly just doing his job, but the sheer timing of the screen grab makes for a hilarious outcome.
Poor ol’ Mario can only try and wriggle out of perhaps the most crunching tackle in world football today and either at the end of this, the defender was sent off or richly rewarded by his manager for a job well done.
#4 Move over, pro wrestling
Wayne Rooney probably loves his wrestling. Having made an appearance just a year or so ago in the WWE he probably earned his fighting stripes on the football pitch too. Here he is with his best impression of a five-star frog splash from the top rope and landing flat on his face for his troubles.
Nevertheless, Wazza here shows us just how NOT to pull off a diving manoeuvre and surely wouldn’t be in Sir Alex’s good books for his theatrical efforts.
#5 Never kiss and tell
We decided to save the best for last. This is probably one of those iconic photos from FIFA you’ve seen but wouldn’t dare talk about because it’s just so scandalous. No worries because we decided to dig deep into our reservoirs and found this intense piece of play from a game between Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund.
Talented young players Mario Gotze and Aaron Ramsey are fighting it out on the pitch. Sounds normal right? Well probably not when you see that they’re actually fighting over.
Ramsey appears to have caught Gotze wrong side of the defense and decided to use some romantic piece of play to stop the German from scoring for his club. Seems to have worked like a charm don’t you think?
