Former Toronto FC midfielder living a dream on FIFA Soccer 09 cover

Maurice Edu doesn't need to see the recent sales figure from Europe - more than 1.2 million copies sold in the first week of release - to know the appeal of EA Sports' FIFA Soccer video game. The former Toronto FC midfielder, now a member of Glasgow Rangers, was a fan of the made-in-Canada game long before he became its North American poster boy. "It's crazy that I'm on the cover of FIFA because I grew up playing that game, me and my brother," Edu said in an interview from a hotel outside Washington, D.C., where the U.S. hosts Cuba in a World Cup qualifying game Saturday before heading south to play in Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday. "When I first found out about it, I was real excited. Now that's it coming out, it's just overwhelming," Developed in Burnaby, B.C., by EA Canada, FIFA Soccer 09 is available in 17 languages... [read full story]