EA Sports FC might have dropped its FIFA license since the last tournament, but it didn’t lose the ability to accurately predict World Cup winners. The series called that Spain would win the 2026 World Cup before a ball had been kicked, which means it has now accurately predicted the winner from each of the last five World Cups.
It’s a streak that has now gone on for so long that it has officially moved from impressive to creepy. Ahead of every World Cup since Spain’s last win in 2010, EA has simulated the tournament, previously in FIFA, now in EA Sports FC, in its latest game. This year, it used EA Sports FC 26, sharing a few days ahead of the tournament that Spain would eventually lift the trophy.
That is, indeed, what happened. It went right down to the wire and required extra time, but Spain eventually broke through Argentina’s defenses on Sunday, a single goal separating the two. EA Sports FC said Spain would win, which means its perfect record continues.
At the last World Cup in 2022, the final time that a game under the FIFA banner would be used to predict the outcome of a...
