Big transfer window to the microphones! Star beIN Sports commentators Omar Da Fonseca and Benjamin Da Silva will provide commentary on Fifa 23 matches slated for release in the fall. The contract between publisher EA Sports and the duo was signed more than a year ago when other fans had bet on the duo Grégoire Margotton / Bixente Lizarazu. Exit Hervé Mathoux at the microphones of the famous football simulation franchise since 2007. His duet with Pierre Ménès had received a red card after accusations of sexual violence against the TV consultant.
VIDEO. Behind the scenes of FIFA 23, with Omar Da Fonseca and Benjamin Da Silva
“It’s a source of pride for me because it’s the video game of my childhood and I never imagined one day providing commentary,” rejoices Benjamin Da Silva. “There is the pride side of being at the microphone of such a well-known franchise, my grandchildren will love it”, encases Omar Da Fonseca. The recording of the commentary sequences began last summer in a studio in western Paris. The duo usually officiates at the weekends to the commentaries of Spanish La Liga matches. He had to stick to a different rhythm with two to three voice recording sessions per week that generated more than 60,000 audio files.
Walls, it’s just a few words or the name of a player, but there are also lyrical flights over several seconds. Excerpts: “In my opinion at his place, even the furniture has shin guards” or “I’m not in PLS, I see, I feel this fabulous atmosphere, that’s football! “. Without filter for the boosted prose of the former Franco-Argentinian footballer. “It’s going all over the place, there will be great Omar,” smiles Benjamin Da Silva. “We never had any constraint or limit in expression, we shouted and we sang”, abounds his accomplice on the air.
“We have learned to pronounce the names of all unknown players and to do so in all situations and all intonations” emphasizes Benjamin Da Silva. Result of the exercise at the release in October of what will be the last Fifa of the name, before the franchise becomes EA Sports FC.