FIFA, the world soccer governing body, Xbox and Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, today announced the second FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC). As the world's only FIFA-sanctioned global video game tournament, the FIWC will combine both on and off-line football gaming action featuring EA's all-new EA SPORTS FIFA 06 for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and Xbox Live.

This game is going to continue to grow in popularity and prestige and deliver on FIFA's goal of bringing soccer to new fans and players beyond our core group of soccer aficionados.