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How do EA create players for FIFA 20?

In May this year, Crystal Palace were paid a visit by Electronic Arts as they built the Crystal Palace squad for the upcoming FIFA 20, which is set to be released on Tuesday (24th). Here’s how it went.

Jack stands in a grey t-shirt and jeans under an entrapment of cameras. He seems almost ensnared by the metal birdcage which pins itself to the floor around him, 20 lenses pointed in his face.

He's not fazed by it, mind, and neither are any of the footballers who sit within, one by one, faces steely and blank in a whir of flashes, then with teeth bore in the light and eyebrows - Jack instructs each one - 'pointed downwards as if you're angry.