Vietnam team and Viettel club will appear officially in the football game PES 2022

On January 25, Konami signed a four-year cooperation agreement with the Asian Football Federation (AFC). This agreement allows the Japanese gaming company to use the rights to AFC’s tournaments, including the Asian Cup, the AFC Champions League, starting with PES 2022.

This means that a series of typical national teams in the Asian region, including Vietnam, will appear in the latest version of the popular PES soccer game series. In parallel, clubs participating in the group stage AFC Champions League, for example, V-League champion Viettel, will also appear with full copyright in PES 2022.

Accordingly, gamers can choose Vietnam national team and Viettel to compete in tournaments such as AFC Asian Cup, AFC Champions League and AFC Asia Qualifier – Road to Qatar in PES 2022. Of course, image – name age as well as the index of Vietnamese players will be simulated in the most honest way in this football game.

The faces of famous Vietnamese players in PES 2020

Previously, in PES 2020, 4 stars of the Vietnamese national team, including: Cong Phuong, Xuan Truong, Dang Van Lam and Van Hau, appeared for the first time in the game. The reason these players are in Konami’s game is because these are all players who play for foreign clubs.

However, many Vietnamese gamers have been disappointed when the Vietnamese players’ shape in the game is not the same as in real life, if not too … ugly. This is in fact quite easy to understand, when the number of players in the game is quite large, leading to Konami only prioritizing the appearance of top stars such as Messi, Ronaldo, Hazard, Neymar … etc. Meanwhile, for less well-known players, the game’s visuals are of course somewhat sketchy.

However, some members of PES’s groups have started to release mods that revise the faces of the Vietnamese team members so that they are most realistic. Notably, these players also added a number of other names in the team, and at the same time allowed players to directly control the Vietnamese national team to play in the game.

A mod edited Doan Van Hau’s face in PES 2021. Source: Love01010100

Not only PES 2020, similar mods made by Vietnamese gamers have also appeared in most versions of PES released in recent years such as PES 2018, PES 2017, PES 2016.

Even in 2007, Nghe An gamer Dong Nhu Kieu made a mod to Vietnameseize the entire popular football game at that time, PES 6, with the interface and comments entirely in language. Viet, in parallel with the addition of famous players of the Vietnamese team into the game.