Tokyo Verdy, a member of the second tier Japanese football league (J2 League), signed its first FIFA player over the weekend in MikeYi Lukaku. A 2015 finalist of the FIFA Interactive World Cup, Lukaku tweeted the news on Sunday. ヘッダーをVerdy仕様に更新🤔#verdy pic.twitter.com/TcSgeRzcnB — MikeYi ️ Lukaku (@mamama_mikey) January 22, 2017 With the player signing, Tokyo Verdy is […]
Brazilian football legend Ronaldo Nazário de Lima has invested in eSports organization CNB, the team announced on its Facebook page over the weekend. Ronaldo, as he is better known, acquired 50 percent of the Brazilian team in collaboration with Brazilian poker player Andre Akkari. He is believed to be the bigger name football player — retired […]
Snap, Inc. is giving 13 major European football clubs and their loyal supporters the opportunity to apply real-time Lenses to their selfies this weekend and throughout the current season in select locations. Among the teams from France, Germany, England, Spain and Italy who are leveraging the geo-specific Lenses — which allow fans to paint their faces […]
Last month, soccer fans in the U.K. were introduced to the “Jeff Bot”, a new chatbot to mimic Sky Sports’ irrepressible Jeff Stelling, host of its wildly popular Soccer Saturday show. Within a day of its launch it had already achieved 10,000 signups, with the average user sending 35 messages. “The engagement and retention we are […]
Hudl has announced a comprehensive partnership with U.S. Soccer and the United States National Soccer Teams. Under terms of the deal, the men’s and women’s national teams and all programs managed by U.S. Soccer will have access to Hudl’s premium performance analysis tools, including Sportscode and Coda. Tab Ramos, the U.S. Soccer Youth Technical Director […]
