As the FIFA ePremier League finals kick off tomorrow (Friday March 26th), Esports News UK had the opportunity to speak with Joseph Healy, a UK FIFA player who will be representing Arsenal on Xbox.
Joe is one of two players representing Arsenal, the other being FaZe Tass on PS4.
Tass is obviously very well-known in the community with more than 100,000 followers and, while 23-year-old Joe may not have the same kind of reach, he is still a very experienced FIFA player and now has his chance on the big stage in the ePremier League.
“I’ve been playing FIFA on a competitive level since I was 16,” Joe Healy told Esports News UK. “Back then it was on GameBattles and a lot of players from there are still playing now like Tass and Dragon.
“When I left school, I didn’t have the time to play FIFA competitively and it’s a huge commitment. I thought I was done with it, but then I’d always go back to it. So it’s been hard to make a name for myself. But out of all those years, this is my best [achievement] so far. And it’s great to be teaming up with Tass.”
On representing Arsenal, he said it’s ‘definitely something to be proud of and it means a lot’.
“I’ve watched Arsenal week in week out since the age of two or three, or whenever my dad made me wear an Arsenal shirt!” he said. “My first Arsenal memory was when Ray Parlour scored that screamer against Chelsea in the 2002 FA Cup final. I would love to play against Saka in FIFA.”
Joseph Healy was speaking ahead of the ePL Finals. Watch live as eight finalists go head-to-head from 6pm, Friday March 26th on Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport online, http://www.twitch.tv/EASPORTSFIFA and all Premier League channels (http://www.premierleague.com, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube).
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
