eSports: B. Mönchengladbach, 10^th Bundesliga club to create an eSports team, recruits 4 FIFA players

Borussia Mönchengladbach (Bundesliga) has its own eSports team by recruiting four players to play on the FIFA 19 video game, according to the club on 11/01/2019. Borussia thus becomes the 10^th club (out of 18) Bundesliga to have an eSport section.

The club will take part in the 2018-19 Virtuellen Bundesliga (VBL), the eSports league of the German Championship which totals 22 teams including 14 Bundesliga teams and begins on 16/01/2019. "four 'FIFA' players for Borussia will take part in various eSports competitions

"Four professional players are now taking part in national and international competitions for the club on the popular football simulation game 'Fifa'. Michael Gherman (24) aka "X Phenomeno X" takes part on Xbox, Georgios Papatolis (18) aka "Georgios7", Yannick Reiners (23) aka "Jeff95" and Stefan Beer (19) aka "Topik" on Playstation for the VfL on points hunt. While Gherman, who previously played for Borussia as a youth footballer, and Papatolis already represented Borussia at the VBL last year, long-time fan Reiners and the promising Swiss youngster Beer will wear the…