FIFA 21 was left without several goal celebrations due to toxic players

Two famous celebrations in real and virtual football will not be found in the upcoming FIFA title due to bad individuals, it was confirmed from Electronic Arts.

One of the ways Electronic Arts is trying to fight toxic players will be to kick out two very popular celebrations of goals from the new FIFA game. This is to prevent procrastination and deliberately challenging opponents so that the player community ultimately has a slightly better match experience. The company confirmed that FIFA 21 will not include the so-called Shush and A-OK celebrations.

Shush is a celebration of goals in which players order the shooter to put his index finger to his mouth during the celebration, telling the opponent to be quiet or silent. Such a reaction after a goal very often annoys another player, so it is somewhat understandable why they decided to remove it. Add to that the goal scored in the last minutes of the match, we believe that someone's controllers did not do well, especially when their opponent celebrates a goal with the mentioned celebration.

As for the A-OK celebration, it is the same one that Dele Alli, a Tottenham player, started in 2018. It soon went viral, primarily because people couldn’t make it right, and EA decided to put it in last year’s edition of FIFA. It is a player who scores with his fingers makes a sign similar to OK and puts "o" on the eye, with the palm of the hand facing outwards.

Such a celebration of the hit is not overly known as toxic, so it can be inferred that the reason for the expulsion is similar to the situation in Call of Duty and Warzone. Namely, in the seventh month of this year, Infinity Ward quietly removed the OK gesture from its game. Although they have not officially spoken out on the matter, it is believed that the popular gesture disappeared from the game due to some connotations with symbols of hatred.

Eurogamer finds out that these celebrations are not the only ones that Electronic Arts has decided to throw out of their upcoming game. They quietly abolished the popular dub and the famous celebration of the appeasement of Cristiano Ronaldo, a Juventus player and the Portuguese national team. It has been confirmed that EA is still working on that segment of the game, so there is a chance that FIFA 21 will be left without a few more celebrations before the official release or maybe get some new ones.