{"id":30363,"date":"2018-07-04T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/fifa-mobile-world-cup-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:19:18","slug":"run-your-own-global-football-tournament-with-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/04\/run-your-own-global-football-tournament-with-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Run your own global football tournament with FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/run-your-own-global-football-tournament-with-fifa-world-cup.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"author\">By Ian Boudreau<\/span> <span class=\"date\">04 Jul 2018<\/span> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s hardly a more tactical situation than the pitch during the \u201cbeautiful game,\u201d and with the World Cup\u2019s first knockout round on the books, we\u2019re gearing up for some intense matches in Russia heading into the finals. <em>FIFA Mobile<\/em> has a World Cup expansion out now though, if you prefer to take some direct control over the on-screen action.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s a free-to-play app that\u2019s stuffed with EA\u2019s usual microtransactions, but it\u2019s hard to argue that the mobile incarnation of FIFA isn\u2019t fun. And let\u2019s face it, it\u2019s drop-dead gorgeous to boot. There\u2019s just something extremely satisfying about a perfectly-swiped scoring kick, isn\u2019t there?<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>FIFA Mobile<\/em>, so you get a good amount of command over your team\u2019s lineup and player training. There\u2019s a surprising amount of depth in the strategy layer, and it\u2019s not hard to get into even for casual soccer \u2013 sorry, I mean, football fans. You will need a fully-qualified team that&#8217;s 65+ OVR to participate in the World Cup, however.<\/p>\n<p>Find it on the iOS <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/fifa-soccer-fifa-world-cup\/id1094930513&amp;at=11l7vY\" target=\"_blank\">App Store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.ea.gp.fifamobile&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a>. The World Cup mode will be available until August\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ian Boudreau 04 Jul 2018 There\u2019s hardly a more tactical situation than the pitch during the \u201cbeautiful game,\u201d and with the World Cup\u2019s first knockout round on the books, we\u2019re gearing up for some intense matches in Russia heading into the finals. FIFA Mobile has a World Cup expansion out now though, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}