Experienced UK FIFA player Donovan ‘Tekkz’ Hunt has joined Manchester City as the club’s latest EA FC esports player.
Tekkz joins from London-headquartered organisation, Fnatic, who stepped back from EA FC esports recently while they ‘assess opportunities’.
Other orgs also stepped back from the game after the EA Sports FC Pro esports circuit was announced, which favours traditional football clubs over esports organisations. This comes after developer-publisher EA broke away from FIFA to launch its own EA FC video game brand.
22-year-old Tekkz has joined City Esports for the 2023/24 campaign, alongside fellow recent signing, Argentinian Matias ‘Matias’ Bonanno. They will both be led by Spanish coach Edu Castellano.
EA’s official FC Pro account tweeted about the player’s achievements and some of his 11 tournament wins below:
Prior to his time with Fnatic, Tekkz started his career in 2018 as a 16-year-old with The F2, when he won the 2018 FUT Champions Cup in Spain. He also won the ePremier League with Liverpool in 2019.
The news also comes just under two months after Man City dropped their previous UK FIFA players, Shellzz and Ryan Pessoa.
Tekkz on joining Man City: ‘I want to win another ePremier League’
“I’m very excited to be joining the Man City Esports team and I’m looking forward to seeing what Mati and I can achieve this season in the ePremier League and hopefully further,” he said on the Man City website.
“I think our play styles complement each other well so I’m confident we can challenge for a handful of titles together. I definitely want to win another ePremier League title and to do it with City would be a huge honour.
He added that his ultimate goal is to win the EA FC World Championship.
“[The World Cup is] the one that sort of eludes me,” Tekkz added. “So that’s the biggest goal. But to get to the World Cup, you need to either I think win the eChampions League or win the ePremier League. So we’ll start off with the ePremier League and finish with the World Cup.”
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.
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