Now a football club has used Fortnite to announce a new signing
You’d think the Fortnite / football love-in reached its natural limit when French forward Antoine Griezmann scored a penalty and celebrated by doing the infamous Fortnite Take the L dance in the World Cup final. Yet here we are with another example of the world of football clashing with the world of Fortnite.
Yesterday, the official Twitter account of French club Nantes published a clip that contains Fortnite gameplay and the unveiling of new signing Lucas Evangelista, who joins from Italian club Udinese on a five-year deal.
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Il y a du nouveau dans la squad… pic.twitter.com/NIqLdwqklC
— FC Nantes (@FCNantes) July 27, 2018
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The clip begins as a game of Fortnite does, with a pre-match lobby. In the lobby is a player called Coach Miguel (the Nantes coach is Miguel Cardoso), another called Diego Carlos (Nantes have a Brazilian defender called Diego Carlos) and a player called Val Rongier (Nantes have a French midfielder calledValentin Rongier).
Coach Migue leaps out of the battle bus and parachutes down to the stadium just west of Tilted Towers. He ransacks the place for a bit, then runs onto the indoor football pitch. There, he follows Diego Carlos and Val Rongier through a door, where the gameplay ends and the clip cuts to Evangelista, who, wearing the Nantes kit, turns to the camera to salute. The clip ends with the words “bem vindo” – “welcome” in Portuguese.
