Sydney Leroux—a member of the United States National Soccer team—recently made headlines with a request to EA Sports.
The soccer star—having played over 70 times for the United States for World Cup winning teams in addition to earning an Olympic Gold Medal in 2016—asked EA Sport to “deflate her boobs” in its FIFA 16 video game after being left unhappy with her appearance in the FIFA 23 release.
Leroux stated her stance by tweeting:
“Please tell me I did not do an entire body scan for that…”
\u201cPlease tell me I did not do an entire body scan for that\u2026 \ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\ude2d\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
She also shared a video clip from the game of her scoring a goal and the celebration scene within.
Leroux joined many of her colleagues in taking issue with the way their characters looked in FIFA 23.
Teammate Madison Hammond wrote:
“Somebody please lmk when they find me, Madison Hammond #99 from Angel City! Because this … is simply not it!”
\u201cMam that is Didier Drogba.\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679522844
Detailing her 2016 look and aesthetic, Leroux tweeted:
“They had the headband, the braid, the neck tattoo, the overly plucked brows and someone even made me CHESTYYYY!!!! Deflate my boobs a bit and put a different jersey on. I’ll keep the brows at this point.”
\u201cThey had the headband, the braid, the neck tattoo, the overly plucked brows and someone even made me CHESTYYYY!!!! Deflate my boobs a bit and put a different jersey on. I\u2019ll keep the brows at this point. \ud83d\ude2d\ud83e\udee3\ud83e\udee0\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679522721
Finalizing her stance, Leroux captioned yet another screenshot:
“You are going to scare my children”.
\u201cYou are going to scare my children.\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520435
Social media had a lot to say.
\u201c@SportBibleNews She wasn't demanding her boobs be deflated. She was suggesting that they use a render from an older FIFA and make it slightly more realistic because this is her model in FIFA 23 \ud83e\udee0:\u201d— SPORTbible News (@SPORTbible News) 1682952472
\u201c@sydneyleroux @2K sports games should have made a soccer game so the people look better\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
\u201c@sydneyleroux No braid, no purple headband, and yeah just a lot missing\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
\u201c@sydneyleroux I guess eyebrows cost extra\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
\u201c@sydneyleroux EA SPORTS! Something is in this game...\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
\u201c@sydneyleroux gonna have to eject EA for this one\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
\u201c@sydneyleroux @eken5 \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udc80 WHERE ARE THE LASHES?!\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
\u201c@sydneyleroux Smh gave y\u2019all the greater value version\u201d— Sydney Leroux (@Sydney Leroux) 1679520384
Leroux currently plays as a forward for Angel City FC, based in Los Angeles, California in the National Women's Soccer League.
