FC Barcelona stars participated in a FIFA 16 tournament and the resulting video is comedy gold. Claudio Bravo, Arda Turan and Dani Alves faced off against Neymar Jr., Jordi Alba and Marc-André ter Stegen in a winner-takes-all matchup.
Who’d the Barcelona players choose to play as? Well, themselves, naturally. With Neymar’s team sporting Barca’s away kits and the Alves squad in the traditional Blaugrana home shirts, the stage was set for a mini half-Clasico on FIFA 16.
As it turned out, the game itself was as one-sided as the matchup. Neymar, Alba and ter Stegen ran rampant on the home side. Winning four to nil – identical to the outcome of this weekend's El Clasico – along with keeping all eleven players on the field, the teams seemed a little lopsided. Does it come as any surprise that Neymar is seriously talented when it comes to virtual soccer as well?
The real beauty of it all was that it truly resembled a natural FIFA couch gathering amongst friends. All of the traditional characters in a squad were present.
Much to the annoyance of his fellow gamers, there’s Neymar fulfilling the role of the kid who answers the phone call from his parents midgame.
There’s ter Stegen attempting to dribble the ball out from the keeper position, an offense that is only permissible if you’re following certain rules (and of a certain age, of course).
And there was Dani Alves, admitting that he didn’t even know which player he was and that he'd rather be reading. The classic friend who's invited to even out the numbers, except, from what I can gather from this video, Dani Alves is the man.
Regardless of the outcome, I’m sure Arda Turan was just grateful for the run out.
Speaking of FIFA, I'm just going to leave this here for your enjoyment. It's a beautiful piece of musical composition, video editing and FIFA hilarity.
