Liverpool goalscorer Diogo Jota was ranked world No1 on FIFA and won Prem tournament

Liverpool superstar Diogo Jota was once the highest-ranked PlayStation player on FIFA, and the forward insists there isn't a footballer alive who could beat him on the game

Harry Brent Senior Sports Writer

16:59, 10 Feb 2024

Diogo Jota was once ranked World No1 on FIFA(Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Liverpool's Diogo Jota can score with his left foot, his right foot, and with his head, but in reality it's with his hands that he's most deadly in front of goal.

The Portugal international is a fanatical gamer and like most football-crazed 20-something-year-olds, he loves a bit of FIFA (sorry, EAFC). That's actually a massive understatement, Jota is obsessed with FIFA - so much so that he was once ranked No. 1 in the world's on the game's leaderboard.

Premier League footballers tend to have a lot of time on their hands, and a group of them organised and took part in a massive FIFA tournament during the initial Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 to kill some of it. Unsurprisingly, Jota emerged as the winner, beating future Liverpool team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold in the final.

Speaking to The Athletic about his love of gaming, the 27-year-old said: "Since my dad gave me my first PlayStation as a kid, it's been like another passion of mine. I always played football on it."

He also claimed no other footballer in the world could beat him at FIFA, and told FourFourTwo that his Liverpool and Portugal team-mates avoided playing him because they knew they didn't stand a chance against him.

Do you reckon you could beat Jota at a game of EAFC? Let us know in the comments section below.

[Diogo Jota playing FIFA]

Diogo Jota won a tournament for Premier League players during the Covid-19 lockdown

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Jota set up his own eSports team known as Diogo Jota eSports and regularly streams matches and others videos on Twitch. The versatile forward joined Liverpool from Wolves in 2020, a few months after beating Alexander-Arnold in the final of the aforementioned tournament. Previously, he played for Porto, Atletico Madrid and Paos de Ferreira.

He netted Liverpool's opener in a 3-1 win over Burnley on Saturday, a result which saw his side get back to winning ways after being bested by Arsenal last weekend.

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