Malta's best FIFA player hopes to turn pro

Playing video games for a living is the kind of job the average young man would kill to have.But Kurt Fenech, 21, is no average gamer. Having already ranked fourth in a European FIFA 16 tournament, he now has his sights set on securing a professional gaming contract.Mr Fenech will have to rank highly at next month's FIFA Play Like a Legend World Grand Finals if he's to turn that dream into a reality. But if the pressure is getting to him, it doesn't show."Winning it is my objective," he told timesofmalta.com. "This is the big one and while qualifying is in itself a huge achievement, I want to win."The World Grand Finals will pit 16 of the world's best FIFA 16 players against one another, with the winner walking away with a cool $10,000 in prize money. E-sports - essentially gaming competitions - have become a massive online business, with total prize money running into the millions of dollars every year. In 2013, viewers on e-sports streaming platform Twitch watched 12 billion minutes of video.Mr Fenech came from relative obscurity to reach the quarter finals of a FIFA 16 Play Like a Legend season tournament earlier this year. Having topped his group, he won the first leg of his...