FIFA 22 Ultimate Team: Joe Cole bug returns to FUT


For owners of the FUT Heroes Joe Cole card, it hasn't been all fun and games on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team.

Glitches have stopped players from being able to use the Chelsea winger, and this has happened multiple times since October.

Issue #1

Problems with the card first started in early October, with players unable to move on to matchmaking if Joe Cole was in their squad.

EA got on it, saying:

We are investigating an issue impacting the FUT Heroes Player Item Joe Cole. During this time, players who have Joe Cole in their active Squad will not be able to start a match until the item is removed from Squad.

Not just FUT

There were also reports that Joe Cole was bugged even when playing in Kick-Off, as his card is available offline in friendlies if you play with the Soccer AID team.

One user reported:

I loaded up Kick Off mode to try some of the new fut heros,as a few are available to use in kick off, if you play as Soccer AID, I moved all the available heros into the starting team, I noticed Cole was frozen, I thought it was just a one time thing, 2 games later, same issue. 87 Cole freezes at kick off, his model stays in the same place all game and you can still use Cole, just as an invisible player.

The fix

All seemed to be sorted with a patch coming on Thursday, 14 October, with one of the updates being:

  • Addressed an issue with FUT Hero Joe Cole’s Player Item, and the inability to enter a match while the Item was present in the Squad.

Issue #2

Despite EA looking to have fixed the issue in their latest patch, players have still been encountering the problem, unable to enter matchmaking with Joe Cole in their squad.

Once again, EA will be on the case trying to fix the issue, with recognition of the problem coming in this Tweet:

Hopefully, all is sorted as soon as possible, with users able to play with one of the most popular new FUT Heros cards around.

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