Individual World Champion Umut Gültekin failed abruptly in the hunt for the World Cup double with the German national eFootball team.
On Friday, the professional from RB Leipzig and Mustafa “Musti” Cankal from FC St. Pauli clearly lost their round of 16 at the FIFAe Nations Cup in Copenhagen against Italy 0: 5 (0: 1, 0: 4). The Germans survived the preliminary round as group winners.
Hamburg-born “Umut” Gültekin only secured 250,000 euros in prize money at the same place on July 17 by triumphing at the individual World Championships. In any case, the grand finale on Saturday (5:00 p.m.) will take place without the 19-year-old.
In the quarter-finals on Friday, the Italians will meet the Danish hosts around the 16-year-old child prodigy Anders Vejrgang (RB Leipzig). In the remaining games of the round of eight, Brazil take on France, Argentina meet Sweden and Portugal take on Poland. The semi-finals (1.15 p.m./2.20 p.m.) take place on the Saturday before the final.
At the two-on-two tournament in Denmark’s capital, the best national team in the soccer simulation FIFA 22 will be played on the console. In the first edition in 2019, Germany was eliminated in the group phase, in the two years after that the tournament was paused due to the corona pandemic.