Nearly five months after a World Cup title win on July 5, the U.S. Women��s National Team once again has statistical proof of its global popularity. According to EA Sports COO Peter Moore, the women��s team currently ranks in the top half-percent of the ��most-played�� teams in the latest FIFA video game.

"If you take the U.S. Women as a singular team and you look at credit fifa 16 the 600 teams you can play with on a global basis, not just in the U.S., the U.S. Women, they're actually the 23rd-most played team around the world in FIFA 16, which is a stunning statistic," Moore said at the BlazerCon convention on Nov. 14.

The news is further confirmation that the world has taken notice of the 20-odd players that made up the championship squad. It was already widely reported this summer that the team��s title match against Japan was the most-watched soccer game in U.S. history, with a total viewership of 26.7 million.

As has been discussed, the choice to include women��s teams in FIFA 2016 was initially contentious. But with the popularity of the move evident in the U.S. women��s team��s acheter fifa coins usage thus far, EA��s decision is additional proof that -- given the right timing and the proper marketing -- women��s sports can compete with those of men in the public eye and on the video game screen.