The Twitch streamer and YouTuber “GamerBrother” regularly makes videos about FIFA 23. Now he has come up with something special: He built a team full of nostalgia – with his World Cup sticker booklet from 2006.
Usually in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team you try to build a particularly strong team that fits well with the gameplay on the virtual pitch. You look at values, good chemistry and skills – at least normally.
In a new video, Twitch streamer Simon “GamerBrother” Schildgen, one of the biggest streamers on FIFA 23, has opted for a different factor: nostalgia.
GamerBrother dug up his old Panini sticker booklet for the 2006 World Cup, which took place in Germany. The streamer went through that in the video and looked for players who are still playing in Ultimate Team today – and made a team out of them.
The 2006 World Cup was apparently full of legends that are still in FIFA 23 today
This can be seen in the video: At the beginning you see a few stadiums and the old lion mascot “Goleo”. Then GamerBrother goes through national team for national team of the 2006 World Cup.
It starts with Germany, where there are stickers of players like Oliver Kahn, Torsten Frings, Tim Borowski, Kevin Kuranyi or Miro Klose. The latter also lands directly as an icon in GamerBrother’s team.
Then come teams like Costa Rica, Poland with goalkeeper Dudek’s hero card, or England with many of today’s icons, such as Ferdinand or Beckham and Owen. In Paraguay, the streamer meets 41-year-old Roque Santa Cruz, who still has a card in FIFA 23 today.
Ibrahimovic is already there for Sweden, as is Hero Ljungberg. Across teams like Argentina (featuring Messi), Ivory Coast (featuring Didier Drogba) and Brazil, the team continues to grow, especially with Hero and Icon cards. In the end, the following team emerges from players who were already there in 2006:
Then he takes the Italy jersey because Italy became world champions at the time and Vieira as the coach. And then the World Cup team goes into the first Rivals match.
GamerBrother goes on to say, “We’re playing with a real grandpa team,” but that turns out to be pretty entertaining. The team doesn’t fit perfectly into the meta – but with Ronaldo and Messi he scores twice for the first win.
“I have to say, the team is playing much better than expected, it’s really fun, it has a great retro vibe,” says GamerBrother happily and scores in the next game with Miro Klose… in the Italy jersey.
In the comments, too, users are happy about the little nostalgia kick from the video and hope for more sticker booklet teams in FIFA 23. The fully glued booklet and the stickers are also praised – although some also point out that GamerBrother likes the Spaniard Salgado glued in twice.
Did you collect football stickers in the past? Tell us in the comments!
The streamer has found an unusual way to play FIFA 23 with the Retro team. But in Ultimate Team there are also things like the “Moments” mode that can provide variety. However, one task in it is absolute hell right now.
The featured image is from GamerBrother’s video on YouTube.