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So the current situation is that we have licensed teams, but generic players, due to some of them, suing EA on Brazilian court (and winning) on the past. EA has, since losing a collective action, and paying about 7 million BRL in fines, backed off regarding brazilian players in the game.

Konami has an exclusivity deal with CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) for the national competitions licensing, but besides that, all clubs and players licensing is done almost individually, on a per season effort.

This leads to out of date mid season transfers or teams with very low player count on the Konami's game, for example, as there is a big effort on negociating every player licensing individually.

André Bronzoni Was the responsible for the first fully licensed Brazilian teams on Konami's side, I believe that the licenses are currently mantained by Daniel Gamba, since 2020, as stated in an interview for ESPN BR

EA have advanced in the previous years by aquiring the CONMEBOL continental competitions righs, such as Copa Libertadores and Sulamericana, but even so CONMEBOL has the image rights of every player, club, club staff and referees (as stated on 2023 Libertadores Competition Regulation item 1.2.1, for example), EA still chooses not to fully license the competition with brazilian players and clubs.

I believe that EA could make an extra effort for getting the Brazilian players in the game. They already have the top players licensing via CONMEBOL, but they could also walk the extra mile and negociate individually with the athletes, as Konami is doing right now.

It's kinda crazy to think that, even efootball not being a real competition to EA's football game, it can do much better regarding the BR licensing.

I know for a fact that the BR global market share for Konami's game is much bigger than EA's, but even so, the amount of money that EA makes with this game would surpass any efforts Konami would be able to pay for.