Each goal ball will be certified using blockchain technology and sold to fans.
La Liga announced A few days ago, its partnership with the company Gol-Ball to implement a system that certifies each ball that has been used to score a goal using blockchain technology.
In this way, the Spanish Professional Football League will be the first to offer its fans the opportunity to enjoy a Official collection of balls with which a goal has been scored in the main national competition.
LaLiga has announced that this system will be available as of January 8, 2023, once the World Cup in Qatar has ended.
On this association, Samuel Eto'o, former footballer and LaLiga ambassador, said: “Throughout my career as a footballer, you were normally given a ball only after scoring a goal. hat trick (three goals in one game), but you were never sure that it was the ball with which you had scored any of the goals. If we had been able to identify the ball with which the goal was scored, my teammates and I would have all wanted it.”
How does the Gol-Ball blockchain system work?
During a football match you can get to use more than ten different ballsThese are distributed around the playing field, ready to be thrown back into the field, thus avoiding time loss every time the ball goes out.
In this way, it is impossible to know with which ball a goal has been scored, since it returns to the midfield for the kick-off and, finally, ends up mixed with the others when it leaves the field, losing its unique value.
Goal-Ball has designed a system that allows Identify and authenticate each ball with which a goal has been scored, using blockchain technology and without having to stop the match.
Once removed from the field of play, The ball is digitized and its data is uploaded to the Web3 platform. Users will be able to purchase digital versions of the balls. Each of these will allow users to:
- See certificate of authenticity.
- Interact with the ball using augmented reality.
- Sell or exchange your ball on the Gol-Ball marketplace.
- Get Gol-Ball stickers and emojis.
- Load your ball into Apple Wallet.
The physical balls will be available to all users through a “fan recruitment mechanism” that will be announced in January, but which aims to create a mechanism for everyone can participate and get one of these balls.
On this subject, Andrés Rodríguez, CEO of Gol-Ball, has stressed that they have sought the way to “leave behind the auction and the bidding of a few for the collaboration between many” and that they are proud that “all fans have the opportunity to access these collectibles.”
LaLiga and Web3
This new goal ball certification system is not LaLiga's first foray into Web3.
In October, they announced the partnership with Dapper Labs for the development of LaLiga Goals, a platform similar to NBA Top Shots, in which users will be able to collect stellar moments of national football as NFTs.
In September, LaLiga also partnered with StadiumPlus to create a space dedicated to football in Decentraland, where fans can enjoy the World Cup in Qatar and everything related to the sport.
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