Forget the Barclays Premier League, the Champions League and the F.A. Cup. The most sought after award that a premiership player can achieve is earning his place in history as one of the EA FIFA 13 UK Cover Stars.

This years FIFA 13 UK Cover Stars accompanying Barcelona’s Lionel Messi are Joe Hart and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Joe Hart has firmly cemented himself as England’s number 1 and Oxlade-Chamberlain is one of the most exciting prospects in English football since Wayne Rooney got snapped up by Sir Alex Ferguson.

Players on Past UK FIFA Covers

Previous players to have graced the UK cover of the FIFA series include:

FIFA 12: Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere

FIFA 11: Wayne Rooney and Kaka

FIFA 10: Wayne Rooney (again), Frank Lampard and Theo Walcott

FIFA 09: Wayne Rooney (yawn) and Ronaldinho

FIFA 08: Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho (again…)

FIFA 07: Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho (although striking a slightly different pose to FIFA 09 and FIFA 08)

FIFA 06: (Have a guess………….. Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho)

FIFA 05:  Patrick Vieira, Fernando Morientes and Andriy Shevchenko

FIFA 04: Thiery Henry, Alessandro Del Piero and Ronaldinho

FIFA 03: Edgar Davids, Ryan Giggs and Roberto Carlos

FIFA 02: Thiery Henry

FIFA 2001: Paul Scholes (who looked about 12)

FIFA 2000: Sol Campbell

FIFA 1999: Dennis Bergkamp

FIFA: Road To World Cup 1998: David Bekham

FIFA 1997: David Ginola

FIFA 1996: Ronald De Boer & Jason Macateer

FIFA 1995 to FIFA 2012 Covers Video

So did EA get it right? Which FIFA 13 UK Cover Stars would you have chosen?

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