Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 07:05• Daniel Cabot Kerkdijk • Last update: 07:08

Marc Overmars has been removed from the video game FIFA 22 by game developer EA Sports. The former football player has been guilty of sexually transgressive behavior at Ajax for a longer period of time and left the Amsterdam club last Sunday. Since 2017, Overmars, former football player of Ajax, Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​has been one of the many former football players who come out as icons in the FIFA title.

EA Sports reports that Overmars’ Icon card has been removed from FIFA Ultimate Team Packs and Ultimate Draft. In the drafts mode, it is possible for players to choose different football players for a certain number of matches. By opening packs, random soccer players can appear. Overmars will no longer appear in this from now on.

Mason Greenwood was also taken out of the popular soccer game last week. The Manchester United attacker is suspected of rape, among other things. EA Sports previously did the same with Benjamin Mendy’s digital assets. The defender, who has been suspended by Manchester City, has been charged with seven rapes.

The same happened to André Onana earlier because of his doping suspension: the goalkeeper of Ajax and the national team from Cameroon has still not been placed back in the popular game. Marco van Basten was also temporarily removed after he died in November 2019 during a broadcast of the former FOX Sports ‘Sieg Heil’ said after an interview by Hans Kraay Jr. with Heracles Almelo trainer Frank Wormuth.

The international youth tournament that SV Epe traditionally holds at Easter no longer bears the name of Overmars. In addition to being director of Ajax, he was also the figurehead of the local pride in Epe, where the news hit like a bomb. Overmars grew up as a football player at SV Epe. He exchanged the village club as a fourteen-year-old for Go Ahead Eagles. A glorious career followed, after which the amateur club decided in 2003 to rename the renowned annual international youth tournament the Marc Overmars Easter Tournament. On Monday, the board chose to end this link.