FC Barcelona announced on Tuesday a partnership with Konami and eFootball.Pro to field a team in Pro Evolution Soccer 2018. KONAMI is the creator of PES, which competes annually against FIFA for the soccer/football player base. eFootball.Pro is an esports company founded by Barca defender Gerard Pique. FC Barcelona is continuing the trend of traditional […]
The official authority of German soccer, the DFB, has announced that it will work with Dutch company Beyond Sports, which specializes in virtual reality and augmented reality player training and analysis. Beyond Sports offers soccer clubs a VR and AR training service, where players face ready-made in-game scenarios, or coaches’ tailor-made scenarios based off their own, […]
A startup that enables fans to create their own virtual living rooms has won the second BT Infinity Lab competition. The winner, Sceenic, will now have its services trialled by British sports channel BT Sport for potential use. The service works by users logging on and creating a private room in which they can watch […]
Sport TV, a Portuguese network, will launch programming that relies upon the Video Assistant Referee system in soccer to provide the content. Juízo Final is a program that will feature an analysis of multi-angle replay images of goals, fouls and other controversial decisions as Primeira Liga has been using VAR. Included in the discussions are […]
The Los Angeles Football Club, which begins its inaugural season in March, has announced a multi-year partnership with YouTube TV that will make the streaming service the exclusive home for all of the team’s locally televised English-language matches. The partnership, which marks a first in North American professional sports, has those matches geo-fenced and featured on […]
