{"id":29470,"date":"2021-05-26T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=29470"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:36:23","slug":"fifa-22-ea-sports-loses-the-atalanta-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-22-ea-sports-loses-the-atalanta-license\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 22: EA Sports loses the Atalanta license"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the official license of <strong>Juventus<\/strong>, <strong>Roma <\/strong>and <strong>Napoli <\/strong> (starting from the 2022\/2023 season ), <strong>Serie A<\/strong> loses yet another license. With a press release published on the official website of the <strong>PES <\/strong>series, <strong>Konami <\/strong>has announced an exclusive and multi-year partnership with <strong>Atalanta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. has today announced that the company has signed a long-term, exclusive partnership agreement with Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio (\u201cAtalanta\u201d), the top-tier Italian football club who recently finished the season in third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As \u201cOfficial Video Game Partner\u201d, KONAMI has secured exclusive rights to the use of the Atalanta license, including team name, crest and kits, within real-time football simulation games, starting with the 2021\/22 football season.<\/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=\"Atalanta x eFootball PES 2021 - Partnership Announcement Trailer\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_AvxoMgeMR0?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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naoki Morita, President at Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. commented: <em>\u201cAs we prepare to unveil the future of the eFootball PES series, I am delighted to announce this exclusive partnership with Atalanta B.C., a truly formidable club with an exciting future at the highest levels of European football. Working side by side with our Partner Clubs is an important element of our strategy to deliver industry-leading video games to football fans all over the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe are extremely delighted to announce the partnership with KONAMI\u201d<\/em>, said Luca Percassi, Atalanta B.C. CEO. <em>\u201cKONAMI is an international brand that needs no introduction. It represents another important moment of growth for Atalanta\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based in Bergamo, Italy, Atalanta has competed in the top-tier Italian football league for 60 years and commands a passionate fanbase across Europe. The team has also proudly reached the quarter finals and the last 16 in the most prestigious European club tournament for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KONAMI\u2019s latest partnership announcement for the <strong>eFootball PES <\/strong>series follows previous Italian agreements including the Italian Football Federation, <strong>AS Roma<\/strong>, <strong>SS Lazio<\/strong> and <strong>SSC Napoli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-23-all-official-pre-order-bonus-and-release-date-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pre-order-fifa-23-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48227\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA 22<\/strong> is available from <strong>October 1st<\/strong> on <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong>,<strong> Xbox Series X<\/strong>, <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong>, <strong>Xbox One<\/strong>, <strong>PC<\/strong>, <strong>Steam <\/strong>and <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong>. Keep on following us also through our social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futukofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultimateteam_uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fifaultimateteam.it_uk\/\">Instagram<\/a> for other news and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a press release published on the official website of the PES series, Konami has announced an exclusive and multi-year partnership with Atalanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1233,2830,2265,22],"tags":[927,789,1980,26,790,2273,2005,2006,1405,28],"class_list":["post-29470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-21","category-fifa-22","category-news","category-ultimate-team","tag-atalanta","tag-fifa-21","tag-fifa-22","tag-fut","tag-fut-21","tag-fut-22","tag-license","tag-licenses","tag-rights","tag-ultimate-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470","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=29470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}