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It’s not how Rusher pictured it, but this is a dream come true for him. Rusher said: “I’ve always followed Southampton, I had a season ticket there for 10 years. My main team is Man United but I’ve always followed Saints since I was a young boy. Representing them is really cool, it was my boyhood dream and now I have done that on the pitch and virtually.”
Competing in FIFA requires a lot of mental tenacity, you have to keep calm while also outsmarting your opponent. With years of football experience, Rusher believes that could give him a slight edge, saying: “My football experience does transfer over to FIFA, I suppose, I pick up on stuff that other people do quite quickly and I read the game well. I’m a quick winger and inFIFA I’m very attacking too. Defending is a strong point of my game but I’m at my best when going forward.
“I do practise pretty hard, though I don’t grind as much as some people because I don’t feel playing seven hours a day is actually good for you. You need to stay sharp and, after a certain amount of time, you start to wear down – you’re then just playing for the sake of playing.”
On top ofrepresenting the Saints, the850 Global Series Points on the linecould salvage Rusher’sFIFA season. “I’ve been in and around the scene for three or four years now and I cheap football shirts replica had a really unfortunate end to last season,” he said. “I missed out on qualification for the Manchester FUT Champions Cup by the narrowest of margins. The top 64 went through to the event and I was 72nd but, because some people dropped out, the person in 71st got invited, I was one place away.