What does a Golden Boot-winning performance at this summer's World Cup get you? A place as the 32nd best player on FIFA 15, apparently. James Rodriguez's score has correctly increased since last year's game, but not enough to see him join the game's elite, despite all the rave reviews. Rodriguez burst onto the world stage this summer after netting 6 goals at this summer's finals in Brazil to finish as the top goalscorer at the World Cup, averaging a goal every 67 minutes. His performances at the tournament led to Real Madrid forking out a blockbuster sum to bring him to the Bernabeu this summer but EA apparently don't see what all the fuss is about. Despite being one of the hottest properties in world football right now, the winger is way down in the proverbial pecking order when it comes to FIFA's hierarchy and his score is not as lofty as it so easily could have been. Rodriguez's recent performances should certainly have seen him rub shoulders with the game's elite in '15 but instead he's been left for dust behind the likes of Mesut Ozil.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
