West Ham United vice-captain Declan Rice’s remarkable season has been recognised with an inclusion in the FIFA 22 Premier League Team of the Season.
The England midfielder has cemented his status as one of the finest box-to-box midfielders in the modern game this season, making 47 appearances in Claret & Blue in all competitions and scoring a personal-best five goals as the Hammers reached the UEFA Europa League semi-finals and continued to challenge in the upper echelons of the Premier League.
In England’s top-flight, no outfield Hammer has played more minutes than Rice’s 2,908 (at the time of writing), with the No41 also recording the most successful tackles, interceptions and completed passes of any West Ham player.
The 23-year-old Academy of Football graduate has therefore been voted by supporters worldwide into his second Premier League Team of the Season in EA SPORTS’ premier football gaming title, having previously been selected in FIFA 19.
As a result, Rice’s heavily upgraded ‘Premier League TOTS’ card – in arguably the most in-demand Team of the Season launch each year – is available in Ultimate Team packs from for lucky players to pick up.
Premier League TOTS 9/10
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Premier League TOTS with Rice 10/10
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Rice’s excellent Premier League TOTS card bolsters his overall rating up to an awesome 93 – the joint-third highest West Ham Special item in FUT history, with Rice himself owning the record at 94 in FIFA 21 – and a huge increase on his initial rating of 82 in FIFA 22.
Already a popular pick for Premier League squads in the team-building game mode, Rice’s TOTS card boasts brilliant passing (90, up from an initial 71), dribbling (91, up from 74), defensive stats (92, up from 81) and physicality (91, up from 79), as well as impressively-raced pace (86, from 66) and shooting (84, from 53) boosts.
Other Hammers nominated for FIFA 22’s Premier League Team of the Season were forwards Saïd Benrahma, Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio.
Rice's Premier League Team of the Season card
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