Liverpool’s Diogo Jota can score with his left foot, right foot and head, but his hands are actually the most lethal in front of goal.
The Portugal international is an avid gamer and, like most soccer-obsessed twenty-somethings, loves FIFA (sorry, EAFC).That’s actually quite an understatement, Jota obsessed In FIFA, he was once ranked number one in the world on the game’s leaderboard.
Premier League footballers tend to have plenty of time on their hands, and a group of them organized a major FIFA tournament to kill some of it during the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020. Participated. Unsurprisingly, Jota emerged as the winner, defeating future Liverpool teammate Trent Alexander-Arnold in the final.
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Speaking to The Athletic about his love of gaming, the 27-year-old said: “Ever since my dad gave me my first PlayStation when I was a kid, it’s been like another passion of mine. I always played soccer with it,” he said.
He also claimed that no footballer in the world could beat him in FIFA, and that his Liverpool and Portugal team-mates avoided playing him because they knew he had no chance of winning. he told FourFourTwo.
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Jota founded his own eSports team, known as Diogo Jota eSports, and regularly streams matches and other videos on Twitch. The versatile forward joined Liverpool from Wolves in 2020, a few months after defeating Alexander-Arnold in the final of the aforementioned tournament. He previously played for Porto, Atlético Madrid and Paços de Ferreira.
He scored Liverpool’s opening goal against Burnley on Saturday, helping Liverpool get back to winning ways after losing to Arsenal last weekend.