Pele, the legendary soccer player from Brazil, regarded by many as the best player to ever grace the beautiful game, has sued Samsung Electronics for at least $30 million, claiming the Korean company employed a “look-alike” in one of its advertisements that ran in the New York Times, without the former player’s consent. In the […]
TOK.tv, a social network integrated with the FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus and Italian Serie A team apps, has just publicized the closing of a $5 million Series A round of investment. In the last year, this company has seen an increase in number of users from 500,000 to 8 million. In one of the most anticipated and […]
The Seattle Sounders are the latest MLS team to work with DeskSite, a digital media company that helps teams manage their video content. With this partnership, they launched the Sounders FC DeskSite, a new video app that will deliver fans quality, high definition video content on-demand for free. The DeskSite is a digital fan center for […]
Despite its flaws and ignominy as an international sports entity, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has enormous global popularity and influence like no other. And the organization’s hallmark video game — simply titled “FIFA” (and then followed by the year succeeding the year of each game’s release) — has become one of the […]
Euro 2016 is around the corner, and with international tournaments comes the real possibility of England getting knocked out in a penalty shootout. In the 1990 World Cup semi-final, they lost to Argentina. Then in Euro 1996, again in the semi-final, they were defeated by the Germans on penalties. The English team has not made […]
