Lamine Yamal, a shooting star of the 2024 European Championship, can be found in the most popular modes in FC 24, like Ultimate Teamdon’t play at all. We’ll explain why.
Who is Lamine Yamal? Yamal, who is under contract with FC Barcelona, is only 16 years old and one of the most sought-after talents in world football. In the attacking area, he is one of the most promising players in this European Championship.
The youngster has made a strong start to the UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany with the Spanish national team. Both he and his teammates have impressed in their first European Championship games so far and have confidently finished first in their preliminary group with 3 wins.
It’s no wonder that many fans of EA FC 24 want him on their team. But that’s more complicated than you might think, because the player isn’t in Ultimate Team or most of the other popular modes.
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Yamal too young for Ultimate Team – EA makes an exception
Why isn’t Yamal in Ultimate Team? The reason you can’t play Yamal in most modes in FC 24 is his age.
EA’s motto for Ultimate Team is to only accept players who are at least 17 years old before the official release. The youngest player according to the Ultimate Team database on futbin.com is the Pole Jakub Paszkowski, who was born on September 16, 2006. This means that he turned 17 shortly before the launch of FC 24.
The situation is a little different in career mode. Here you will find a large number of talents who are still 16 when FC 24 starts. Although Yamal was already a regular at FC Barcelona this year, you will look for him in vain in career mode. This could be because Yamal will only turn 17 on July 13, which is very late in FC 24.
The young Spaniard does not appear in any other offline or online modes either.
What is the exception? With the European Championship update, which we reported on in more detail at MeinMMO, the new UEFA EURO 2024 mode was introduced. In the course of the official player nominations for the European Championship, EA reacted accordingly and updated the squads of the participating national teams for the new mode.
This also included the addition of Lamine Yamal, who was given a rating of 76. So far, he has not received a game picture from EA. His game face in the game also looks very generic.
We compared Yamal and his teammate Williams with the star duo of the German national team: Two duos from Germany and Spain are shaking up the European Championship – which one is better in the game?
So if you’ve been wanting to play Yamal all season, you now have the opportunity to do so in the European Championship mode. It remains to be seen whether the youngster will also appear in the other game modes in FC 24. It is quite conceivable that we will only see his first card for Ultimate Team in FC 25. EA is said to have competition for FC 25 this year from another development team that is working on the new edition of a well-known football simulation: fans have been waiting for FIFA 25 for years: release is supposedly still in 2024.