{"id":24938,"date":"2021-01-25T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=24938"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:52:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:52:51","slug":"fifa-21-pro-player-harry-hesketh-retires-from-competitive-after-ea-sports-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-21-pro-player-harry-hesketh-retires-from-competitive-after-ea-sports-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 21: Pro player Harry Hesketh retires from competitive after EA Sports ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former <strong>Fnatic Pro Player Harry Hesketh<\/strong>, after receiving a ban from <strong>EA Sports<\/strong> from all competitions in the <strong>FIFA <\/strong>series for a year, has announced his retirement from the franchise&#8217;s competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sanction starts from the distant 12 December, the day when <strong>Harry Hesketh<\/strong> during a live on the <strong>Twitch <\/strong>platform uttered an unhappy joke about the mother of the phenomenon of the moment <strong>Anders Vejrgang<\/strong>. The 14-year-old holds the record for winning streak in the <strong>FUT Champion Weekend League<\/strong> of the<strong> FIFA 21 Ultimate Team<\/strong> mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Englishman, in a goliardic moment of the live broadcast, found himself exchanging considerations with the other participants in the live on the prodigy boy and still under the effect of a slight hangover he uttered some inelegant phrases. In the following hours, once the alcohol fumes had been disposed of and realized the gaffe, he contacted <strong>Andreas <\/strong>and his entourage to apologize. The apologies were readily accepted as the &#8220;happy&#8221; situation and the context in which the jokes were made made everyone understand that he was just a slip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EA Sports did not reach the same conclusions and Saturday (23 January) published an official statement on its website informing that <strong>Harry Hesketh<\/strong> has received a <strong>one-year ban<\/strong>, the revocation of the status of verified player and the exclusion from all future competitions in the series for the entire period of the suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The response of the English Pro was not long in coming. Through a video posted on Youtube he again apologized to <strong>Anders <\/strong>and his family. He explained once again that he realized that the joke was out of place and that he does not intend to seek justifications just because he was tipsy. After which he expressed some considerations regarding the <strong>ban <\/strong>claiming that<strong> EA Sports<\/strong> does not have a balanced yardstick and that if only he wanted it could report hundreds of similar episodes present on the various social networks and streaming platforms of all those who have participated in at least one of the competitions organized by the Canadian software house and which have not received the same treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the idea that EA Sports can arbitrarily decide the fate of a professional without a uniform yardstick, I was wrong during a live where everyone was having fun and the context was goliardic. I don&#8217;t want to justify myself for this but I don&#8217;t want to be treated in the same way as those who received the same sanction for posting racially motivated thoughts and \/ or content. For this reason I decided to withdraw from the FIFA competitive &#8220;concluded the veteran of the competitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, a few minutes after the video was published, <strong>Fnatic <\/strong>also announced that it had agreed to terminate the contract with the Englishman three years earlier than the natural expiration date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I got BANNED by EA SPORTS...\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hh9zWOJyOBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA 21<\/strong> is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and in <strong>December 4th <\/strong>for the Next Gen <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong> and <strong>Xbox Series X<\/strong> platforms Keep on following us also through our social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futukofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultimateteam_uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> for other news and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Fnatic Pro Player Harry Hesketh, after receiving a ban from EA Sports from all competitions in the FIFA series for a year, has announced his retirement from the franchise&#8217;s competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1233,2265],"tags":[1393,2090,789,2721,26,790,2720,2719,580,28],"class_list":["post-24938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-21","category-news","tag-ban","tag-banned","tag-fifa-21","tag-fnatic","tag-fut","tag-fut-21","tag-harry","tag-hesketh","tag-pro-player","tag-ultimate-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}