Female footballers are set to feature in Fifa’s official video game for the first time. Developers today announced that women will star in the next version of the multi-million-selling Fifa video game franchise. England women are among the 12 international teams set to appear in Fifa 16, to be released in September. It is a landmark moment for the women’s sport and comes as England’s women arrived in Canada earlier this week for the Women’s World Cup, set to start in Canada next week. It is a contrast from under-fire Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s controversial 2004 suggestion that female players could wear tighter shorts to promote the game.