Daver Brescakovic has won the New Zealand qualifier event to secure his place in the FIFA Interactive World Cup Grand Final in Berlin, Germany on 24th May 2008.
The swift football fingers of Swiss contestant, Daver Brescakovic, proved too much for his Australian contestant, Stephen Coorey. Daver won the championship with a decisive 5-1 victory in the final match.
The exciting event blended the skills of 74 aspiring FIWC 08 champions with exhibition stunt soccer performed by Auckland’s under 18 Samba soccer kids. Daver Brescakovic has won an all expenses paid trip to Berlin to join a total of 32 of the cream of interactive football talent competing for the title of FIFA Interactive World Player 2008 and the US$20,000 prize money. The winner of the Grand Final will attend the FIFA World Player Gala in December 2008 where he will have the chance to meet some of the world’s elite male and female footballers.
Having been knocked out of the semi-final round of the Swiss FIWC event last weekend in his homeland, Daver, decided to try his luck a second time in the New Zealand qualifier event. The determination of the globe-trotting FIWC enthusiast paid off as he easily brushed aside fellow contestants.
He said after his victory: “This is simply the best holiday I’ve ever had. I love this tournament and I love New Zealand.”
The Auckland qualifier is one of 20 live qualifier events taking place across the six continents between October 2007 and April 2008 culminating in the FIWC Grand Final in Berlin on 24 May 2008.
As the world’s only FIFA sanctioned global video game tournament, the FIFA Interactive World Cup combines both on and off-line football gaming action with EA’s FIFA 08 on PS3 and PlayStation Network. Last year’s competition in which thousands of contestants from six continents battled for a place in the final was won by 17 year old Andries Smit from Amsterdam, Holland. He was crowned the third-ever FIFA Interactive World Player 2006 at the occasion of the FIFA World Player Gala in Zurich from countryman and former Dutch international player Edgar Davids.
