{"id":1501449,"date":"2021-11-27T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2178436"},"modified":"2021-11-27T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T20:25:00","slug":"liverpool-star-quits-fifa-22-tournament-early-to-play-real-life-match-scores-after-just-97-seconds-does-gamer-celebration","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/liverpool-star-quits-fifa-22-tournament-early-to-play-real-life-match-scores-after-just-97-seconds-does-gamer-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool star quits FIFA 22 tournament early to play real-life match, scores after just 97 seconds, does gamer celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/liverpool-star-quits-fifa-22-tournament-early-to-play-real-life-match-scores-after-just-97-seconds-does-gamer-celebration.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A Liverpool player had to quit a FIFA 22 tournament early to play a real-life match this afternoon &#8211; and performed a gamer celebration after scoring after just 97 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool front man Diogo Jota spent the morning playing in a FIFA 22 international qualifier event before rushing off to make the 3pm kick-off of his club&#8217;s Premier League match against Southampton at Anfield.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\"><figcaption>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good job Jota made it, too &#8211; he scored after just 97 seconds &#8211; and celebrated by sitting down and pretending to play FIFA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.2882882882883\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">There?s no way Jota just did that celebration<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H36v7CdafB\">pic.twitter.com\/H36v7CdafB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 _^ (@lfc_allting) <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lfc_allting\/status\/1464611623763595266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"message\">This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Please enable cookies to view.<\/span> <button id=\"ot-sdk-btn\" class=\"ot-sdk-show-settings\">Manage cookie settings<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Jota continued his impressive form in front of goal by adding a second goal later in the first half. Liverpool went on to win 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderfully, Jota&#8217;s scheduled next opponent in the FIFA 22 tournament, 18-year-old French player Yanis &#8220;Lyamooo&#8221; Aguili, took to Twitter to reveal the chat between the two players that took place just before the Liverpool star took off.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.3582089552239\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"fr\">Jsuis mort je joue diogo jota au 4 eme round mais y me laisse la win psk il a match avec liverpool \u00e0 16h c nimp?<a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiogoJota18?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DiogoJota18<\/a> <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cT0ZKQbHlt\">pic.twitter.com\/cT0ZKQbHlt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 URA | Lyamooo_ (@Lyamooo_) <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lyamooo_\/status\/1464587049139425284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"message\">This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Please enable cookies to view.<\/span> <button id=\"ot-sdk-btn\" class=\"ot-sdk-show-settings\">Manage cookie settings<\/button><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good luck!&#8221; Jota messages at 2.23pm CET (an hour ahead of UK time).<\/p>\n<p>Then, a minute later: &#8220;I can&#8217;t play so I will miss check-in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aguili, clearly fine with proceedings, replies: &#8220;Oh okay good luck for the match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then: &#8220;In real life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks,&#8221; Jota replies.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine what Liverpool manager J\u00fcrgen Klopp would have said had Jota turned up late because he was playing FIFA!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\"><figcaption>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jota and Aguili were set to compete in an online qualification match for the FIFA 22 Global Series.<\/p>\n<p>Jota&#8217;s appearance in the tournament is no publicity stunt. As <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-06-liverpools-diogo-jota-isnt-just-a-brilliant-footballer-hes-first-in-the-world-at-fifa-on-playstation\">Eurogamer<\/a> has reported, the Portuguese isn&#8217;t just a world class footballer, he&#8217;s a world class FIFA player.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Jota was ranked number one in the world on the FIFA Ultimate Team Champions leaderboard after going 30-0 yet again during the weekend league (winning 30 matches without loss in FUT&#8217;s most hardcore competitive mode is the kind of record the pro FIFA players shoot for).<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t a one-off, either. Jota had gone 30-0 in FUT Champions before. In May 2020, Jota beat now-Liverpool teammate Trent Alexander-Arnold in the final of the FIFA 20 ePremier League Invitational. Watch that match in the video below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\"><figcaption>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Since my dad gave me my first PlayStation as a kid, it&#8217;s been like another passion of mine. I always played football on it,&#8221; Jota told <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/2226851\/2020\/12\/02\/diogo-jota-liverpool\/\">The Athletic<\/a> in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Jota has his own esports team. &#8220;You&#8217;re forgiven for dropping the qualifier,&#8221; they tweeted in response to the first goal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"3.4615384615385\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"pt\">Est\u00e1s perdoado por abandonares o qualificador. <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dNXAbP8j1Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/dNXAbP8j1Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiogoJota Esports (@diogojotaegames) <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diogojotaegames\/status\/1464610865651630084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"message\">This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Please enable cookies to view.<\/span> <button id=\"ot-sdk-btn\" class=\"ot-sdk-show-settings\">Manage cookie settings<\/button><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Jota&#8217;s tweet on today&#8217;s events:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"2.8712871287129\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">What a week at Anfield ??? <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GMtBWVi3xd\">pic.twitter.com\/GMtBWVi3xd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diogo Jota (@DiogoJota18) <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiogoJota18\/status\/1464683851368833031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"message\">This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Please enable cookies to view.<\/span> <button id=\"ot-sdk-btn\" class=\"ot-sdk-show-settings\">Manage cookie settings<\/button><\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-11-27-liverpool-star-quits-fifa-22-tournament-early-to-play-real-life-match-scores-after-just-97-seconds-does-gamer-celebration\">Source: https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-11-27-liverpool-star-quits-fifa-22-tournament-early-to-play-real-life-match-scores-after-just-97-seconds-does-gamer-celebration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1501450,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[148],"artist":[149],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[5646,5207,5508,5864,3741,6033,6034,5600,5601,5516,5518,5290,5519,5689,3638,5462,5608,5522,3817,9820,3714,3643,3884,5470,3646,5221,6365,5619,5948,5263,5817,3654,6059,7485,3755,3667,3775,3885,3886,3865,5227,12073,9057,5626,6409,5270,5435,6135,3675,3887,3678,3681,3690,5231,3692,6089,5699,3694,6038,3733,5763,3872,5640,5641,3697,5643,3700,3764,6039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1501449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1501449"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1501449"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1501449"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1501449"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1501449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}