Are the fake eFootball (Konami) logos for the Serie A better than the real ones? Fake aesthetics and the PES licensing war can become an asset for entry into the metaverse

Goal Storm, Iss Pro, Winning Eleven, PES and eFootball. Konami's football video game has taken on different names over the years, creating a long-distance challenge with FIFA by dividing fans and - above all - official league and club licences. In the common imagination FIFA has always been the more mainstream game, with a wider spread, official licences and more accessible gameplay. PES - which since last year has been renamed eFootball in its Fortnite-style free-to-play version - has instead positioned itself as a hipster alternative on the market, managing between 2006 and 2012 to eat into FIFA's market share. Part of the appeal of PES was its somewhat cheap aesthetic, bordering on the fake, whose apotheosis was the fake names and logos of teams whose commercial rights they did not own: in PES 2002 you could play Aragon (Manchester United) against Europort (Liverpool) played at the Red Cauldron (Anfield), Lombardy (Milan) against AS Abruzzi (Rome) in the prestigious Longobardi Colosseum (San Siro) to name but a few examples. Another impossible-to-forget tidbit are the names of the various football legends: NIRASAKI (Hidetoshi Nakata) Malgani (Maradona), Lon Barron (Roberto Baggio).