{"id":111557,"date":"2016-11-23T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111557"},"modified":"2016-11-23T16:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:02:14","slug":"the-highest-rated-south-african-players-according-to-fifa-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111557-the-highest-rated-south-african-players-according-to-fifa-17","title":{"rendered":"The highest rated South African players according to FIFA 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs are the only two ABSA Premiership teams in FIFA 17, the game&#8217;s ratings system prove that EA still rates many South Africans highly.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, we&#8217;re really not sure if Steven Pienaar has any right being called the best South African soccer player in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the highest rated South African soccer players according to FIFA below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> We did not include any special or upgraded cards, we only used the player&#8217;s base statistics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Steven Pienaar &#8211; Sunderland (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/steven-pienaar\/293\" target=\"_blank\">77<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Itumeleng Khune &#8211; Kaizer Chiefs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/itumeleng-khune\/1841\" target=\"_blank\">76<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oupa Manyisa &#8211; Orlando Pirates (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/oupa-manyisa\/4165\" target=\"_blank\">76<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Siphiwe Tshabalala &#8211; Kaizer Chiefs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/siphiwe-tshabalala\/3507\" target=\"_blank\">76<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thabo Matlaba &#8211; Orlando Pirate (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/thabo-matlaba\/8004\" target=\"_blank\">74<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>George Lebese &#8211; Kaizer Chiefs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/george-lebese\/4237\" target=\"_blank\">74<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andile Jali &#8211; Kv Oostende (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/andile-jali\/5200\" target=\"_blank\">73<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kamohelo Mokotjo &#8211; FC Twente (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/kamohelo-mokotjo\/5982\" target=\"_blank\">73<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandla Masango &#8211; Randers FC (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/mandla-masango\/3502\" target=\"_blank\">73<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ayanda Patosi &#8211; Sporting Lokeren (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futwiz.com\/en\/fifa17\/player\/ayanda-patosi\/7094\" target=\"_blank\">73<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The best and worst of Final Fantasy\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/111451-the-best-and-worst-of-final-fantasy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best and worst of Final Fantasy<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are South African players being fairly represented in FIFA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[23399,31,23395,23393,23401,23397],"class_list":["post-111557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-absa","tag-active","tag-kaizer-chiefs","tag-orlando-pirates","tag-psl","tag-south-arica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111567,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111557\/revisions\/111567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}