Laliga, Spain’s top soccer league, has announced the implementation of a new system that will use blockchain to track soccer balls used to score goals. The system, which will be provided by Gol-Ball, a third-party company, will certify the ball so that users can buy it through the official market or raffle.
Spanish Laliga uses Blockchain System for Football Certification
Laliga, Spain’s leading soccer league, has announced that it will be one of the first organizations to certify balls used to score goals using blockchain technology. The institution has partnered with Gol-Ball, a third-party company, to implement the system.
The system, which will be used after the Qatar world cup, will be used to track every ball used in every match and to separate and identify which one was used to score each goal – something that has never been done before. each ball is played and mixed with the other.
Samuel Eto’o, Laliga ambassador and former footballer, spoke about the importance of this new technology. Eto’o said:
Throughout your career as a footballer, you’ll usually be awarded the ball only after scoring a hat-trick, but you’re never sure if it’s the ball you’ve actually scored. If we had been able to identify the goal scoring ball, my friends and I would have wanted it all.
Soccer Market Score Goals
In a press statement issued on December 1, Laliga state that this goal-scoring ball will be available to all fans through a “mechanism involving fans” will be disclosed in January. This marks the establishment of a secondary market for the ball, which can be distributed to fans through raffles or paid participation, opening up new engagements and revenue for the company.
Regarding this new link, Oscar Mayo, executive general director of Laliga announced:
It is a bridge between the real world and the digital world. We are proud of LaLiga for innovating and offering fans a way to connect emotionally with their favorite clubs and idols.
Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Gol-Ball, also announced that fans will be able to have the ball as a digital representation, hinting at the issuance of NFT (non-fungible tokens). Laliga has also participated in the launch of the NFT-based platform before, establishing a partnership with Dapper Labs in October for the release of Laliga Golazos, a memorable NFT platform.
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