cannot link my new steam account to my ea

I recently bought fc 26 on my new steam account and i have unlinked my old steam account because i forgot my username and password. If i try to link my new steam account i get a notification that you can only link 1 steam account to a ea account in its livetime. But multiple friends of mine tried the same and it did work for them. 

Linked accounts found. Your accounts cannot be linked because the EA account for re*****@gmail.com was previously linked to the Steam account for R******.b. An EA account can only be linked to one Steam account during its lifetime.