FIFA 23: who are the new ICONS?
What FIFA 23 ICONS will we see this time around?
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As the inevitable FIFA 23 release date approaches, many are starting to wonder who the FIFA 23 ICONS will be for the latest edition.
FUT ICONS are special player cards in FUT, based on legendary players of the game.
These ICONS don’t just have amazing ratings and skills, they also link to every player around them, making them some of the most highly sought-after cards in the game.
Last year we saw Cafu, Rooney, Van Persie, and Casillas added.
If rumours are to be believed, we could see a bit of a shake up fro Icons going into FIFA 23. There are suggestions that some Icons will be downgraded to Heroes in the new game.
READ MORE: FIFA 23 Career Mode
New FIFA 23 ICONS
According to EA we can expect three new icons to be added to the game, as listed below.
- Gerd Müller (Germany) – FUT Icon
- Jairzinho (Brazil) – FUT Icon
- Xabi Alonso (Spain) – FUT Icon
Well, let’s take a look back at FIFA 22’s ICONS.
Goalkeeper ICONS:
- Petr Cech
- Peter Schmeichel
- Edwin Van der Sar
- Lev Yashin
- Iker Casillas
Iker Casillas was new for FIFA 22.
Defender ICONS:
- Cafu
- Franco Baresi
- Laurent Blanc
- Sol Campbell
- Fabio Cannavaro
- Carlos Alberto
- Nemanja Vidic
- Ashley Cole
- Marcel Desailly
- Rio Ferdinand
- Fernando Hierro
- Ronald Koeman
- Philipp Lahm
- Paolo Maldini
- Bobby Moore
- Alessandro Nesta
- Carles Puyol
- Roberto Carlos
- Gianluca Zambrotta
- Javier Zanetti
Cafu was new for FIFA 22.
Midfielder ICONS:
- Michael Ballack
- John Barnes
- David Beckham
- Deco
- Michael Essien
- Gennaro Gattuso
- Steven Gerrad
- Ryan Giggs
- Pep Guardiola
- Ruud Gullit
- Gheorghe Hagi
- Kaká
- Roy Keane
- Frank Lampard
- Michael Laudrup
- Jari Litmanen
- Claude Makélélé
- Diego Maradona
- Lothar Matthäus
- Hidetoshi Nakata
- Pavel Nedved
- Jay-Jay Okocha
- Marc Overmars
- Emmanuel Petit
- Roberto Pires
- Andrea Pirlo
- Frank Rijkaard
- Juan Roman Riquelme
- Rui Costa
- Paul Scholes
- Bastian Schweinsteiger
- Clarence Seedorf
- Socrates
- Juan Sebastian Veron
- Patrick Vieira
- Xavi
- Zinedine Zidane
Maradona was eventually removed.
Forward ICONS:
- Wayne Rooney
- Robin Van Persie
- Roberto Baggio
- Dennis Bergkamp
- George Best
- Emilio Butragueno
- Eric Cantona
- Hernan Crespo
- Johan Cruyff
- Kenny Dalglish
- Alessandro Del Piero
- Didier Drogba
- Samuel Eto’o
- Eusebio
- Luis Figo
- Garrincha
- Thierry Henry
- Luis Hernandez
- Filipo Inzaghi
- Miroslav Klose
- Patrick Kluivert
- Henrik Larsson
- Gary Lineker
- Michael Owen
- Pele
- Ferenc Puskas
- Raúl
- Rivaldo
- Ronaldinho
- Ronaldo
- Ian Rush
- Hugo Sanchez
- Alan Shearer
- Andrij Schewtschenko
- Christo Stoichkov
- Davor Suker
- Fernando Torres
- David Trezeguet
- Marco Van Basten
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
- Christian Vieri
- Ian Wright
- Gianfranco Zola
Wayne Rooney and Robin Van Persie were added for FIFA 22.
What FIFA ICONS were new for FIFA 22?
Last year Cafu, Rooney, Van Persie, and Casillas were added to the ICONS list.
“After exploding onto the scene as a teenager playing for his boyhood club, the world woke up to a new English superstar”
“In Robin van Persie’s long career, he was known world over as a deadshot number 9 with highly refined technical ability“
“The most successful goalkeeper in Real Madrid’s grand history, the story of ‘’San Iker’’ is a classic football fable.“
“A key cog in some of Brazil and Europe’s greatest sides, Cafu’s attacking play down the right of the defence made him a legend of the game and inspired all his sides to triumph.“
FIFA ICON vs HERO cards
Heroes differ to Icons because they get positive chemistry links to any player who belongs to the same league as them. They also link with players of their nationality but it isn’t as strong a link.
We now know that the Heroes featuring in FIFA 23 will be part of a collaboration with Marvel. Marvel are designing the cards as seen above, as well as publishing limited edition comics for the featured players.
The unique artwork that the cards sport puts this promo that step above others we have seen in the past. At the very least it makes them much nicer to look at.
The players we know that are featuring so far are:
- Diego Forlan – 91 – as “Sunstrike”
- Lucio – 90 – as “The Thunder”
- Rafael Marquez – 89 – as “El Kaiser”
- Javier Mascherano – 89 – as “Octob-Boss”
- Yaya Toure – 89 -as “The Citadel”
- Landon Donovan – 88 – as “The Brave”
- Park Ji-Sung – 87 – as “Tigerheart”
- Cladio Marchioso – 88 – as “Il Prinicipino”
- Peter Crouch – 86 – as “The Robot”
- Tomas Brolin – 89 – as “The Tornado”
- Harry Kewell – 88 – as “The Wizard of Aus”
- Sidney Govou – 87 – as “The Lion of Lyon”
- Jean Pierre-Papin – 90 – as “The Acrobat”
- Dirk Kuyt – 88 – as “The Energizer”
- Rudi Völler – 91 – as “The Flying German”
- Hidetoshi Nakata – 88 – as “Stealth Agent 78”
- Jay-Jay Okocha – 89 – as “Double Take”
- Joan Capdevila – 88 – as “The Backfield Bull”
- Włodzimierz Smolarek – 88 – as “Phase Shift”
- Saeed Al-Owairan – 88 – as “The Emerald Falcon”
