Umut Gültekin and Anders Vejrgang, the kings of the EA Sports FC 24 soccer video game

( Spanish) –– Video game sports – or eSports – continue to be the talk of the United States and the world… and their current kings are the young Umut Gültekin and Anders Vejrgang.

According to Forbes magazine, at least 10 organizations of this type of electronic sports exceeded a valuation of US$ 200 million in May 2022.

Furthermore, in 2023 the global number of players will exceed 3 billion, according to a report from the Newzoo portal.

Among the most popular games, the “EA Sports FC 24”, from the company EA Sports, which takes over the FIFA video game franchise, named thanks to the agreement that existed with the highest entity in world football.

FIFA video games reached a maximum audience of more than 319,000 viewers in the first week of this year, becoming the second with the most views, only below “League of Legends”, according to the Esports Charts portal.

Every year FIFA organizes its eSports World Cup, FIFAe. This competition has three categories: individual, country and club tournament.

The team Red Bull Leipzig Gaming It is currently the dominant one in the club category. This team has as its main figures the German Umut Gültekin and the Danish Anders Vejrgang, who at their young age have already made history in eSports.

Last year, both became the FIFAe world champions at club level, beating the Futwiz Europe team by an aggregate score of 3 to 2, and are currently the number 1 team in the category rankings.

“It’s the biggest thing you can win (…) There are many players who have not yet won a World Cup. “It is the most important achievement of my career so far, and I am very proud of it,” Vejrgang told .

Gültekin, for his part, won the world title in the individual category in 2022, a competition that took place in the city of Copenhagen and had a total of 32 participants.

In the grand final, the German player defeated gamer Argentinian with username “nicolas99fc” by overall score of 1 to 0 in a series played in the best of three games, securing a prize of US$ 250,000.

“It’s the biggest thing you can achieve on this platform. “Of course it is the greatest achievement of my career, I am very proud of myself and my team, RB Leipzig, who helps me every day throughout the season,” Gültekin told .

This camaraderie within Red Bull Leipzig is the key behind the success of the duo of Gültekin and Vejrgang. However, their chemistry didn’t happen overnight.

In the 2022 edition of this club tournament, the Red Bull Leipzig Gaming team fell in the qualifying stage of the competition and did not play in the final phase. Despite this negative result, both players were confident that they could give more in the competition by playing together.

“The previous year, as individual talents we were the best team. But last year we were able to show that we were also the best playing two on two with our chemistry. We were very happy, but teamwork is very important in eSports,” said Gültekin.

In the 2023 edition, the collaboration between the RB Leipzig Gaming players bore fruit, as on their way to the world title they scored a total of 14 goals in the final phase of the tournament and only conceded six goals.

Currently, both players are participating in the FC Pro Open tournament, organized by EA Sports. In this one, both Gültekin and Vejrgang are standing out, since both are in the qualification zone for the next round of the event. However, they have had challenges, due to the format of the tournaments when it comes to forming their teams.

The FC Pro Open, for example, gives its participants a limited amount of coins that work within the video game so that they can use them at their discretion when choosing players. Cards from higher level footballers cost more than others, and for this reason gamers They must be very selective in their equipment.

“Most of the time there are restrictions on the equipment you can use. This week we had to play only with icon class players and you have a quota of 5 million coins. It is difficult to put together teams like this because all competitions have different types of restrictions,” Vejrgang said.

Both players are also content creators and post videos every week. In these, your audience can watch replays of your matches online and even hear your tips on how to improve in “EA Sports FC 24.”

“You have to dedicate time to it. You should watch videos on YouTube and content on Twitch to improve and get advice from the best players. You should also have fun with the game. Sometimes you can use players from your favorite club, even if they are not the best. The main thing when you play the video game is to have fun and improve little by little, because when you improve you win more games and it is more fun,” said Gültekin.