Southampton Agree EA SPORTS Partnership

Southampton Football Club has today announced a new partnership with EA SPORTS. As part of the deal, defender Maya Yoshida will appear on the cover of FIFA 14 in his home country, Japan.

EA SPORTS will be the club’s Official Football Video Gaming Partner from the start of the 2013/14 Premier League season. 

Yoshida will appear on the cover of the FIFA 14 video game alongside Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Wolfsburg’s Makoto Hasebe. He said: “It’s brilliant. I was really pleased when I heard that I would be on the cover of FIFA 14, and to be featuring alongside Messi is a great honour.”