Super league against Fortnite and Call of Duty
In one way or another, the Superlega continues to be linked to video games, in this case with the direct mention of Fortnite and Call of Duty made by Andrea Agnelli, president of Juventus and the main promoter of the initiative that seems to have ended rather bad.We saw yesterday evening how the Super League has already fallen apart, with a lot of fans who took to the streets to protest, in Great Britain, with billboards against the "Grand Theft Football" that was taking place consuming. Video games return directly to the subject based on a particular quote from what Agnelli reported in the past few hours, speaking of the Superlega project in an interview published by La Repubblica.
Grand Theft Football era written on some signs of Chelsea fans protesting against the Superlega
The Superlega should in fact go against video games, according to Agnelli, who stands this initiative as a sort of direct competitor of Fortnite and Call of Duty to attract more the attention of young people to football: the idea is therefore to look for a competition that is more spectacular and engaging to try to snatch an audience from video games, based on what the Juventus president thought.
It was about creating a competition that was "able to contrast what they reproduce on digital platforms, transforming the virtual into the real", said Agnelli on the Superlega and on young people, for example because the need has now matured to clash with video games on their own ground and face the competition of the various Fortnite, Call of Duty etc., authentic catalysts of the attention of today's kids destined to be the spenders of tomorrow ".
The concept was to build a high-level show that is able to attract a young audience, accustomed to such spectacularity in "digital" terms with video games, in order to cultivate a new generation of passionate users to football.
For the moment, in any case, it seems that FIFA 21 and PES 2021 can sleep peacefully, considering that there is no huge earthquake looming in the near future.
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Hours before Agnelli gave up Super League dream he said ESL would compete with Call of Duty, FIFA & Fortnite
The European Super League has now all but officially collapsed.
The concept was only introduced on Sunday but has now seemingly fallen apart.
All six of the Premier League sides who originally joined the competition announced on Tuesday evening that they would be leaving.
Now, on Wednesday morning, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli has stated that plans for a European Super League can no longer go ahead without the English sides:
Agnelli compares ESL to video gamesBefore he stated that the ESL could not go ahead, though, the Italian produced some rather interesting quotes.
When speaking to Corriere dello Sport, Agnelli claimed that the ‘Super League simulates what young people do on digital platforms in competition with Call of Duty, FIFA or Fortnite’.
In further quotes on the ESL, the Juventus chairman claimed 40 per cent of 15-24-year-olds have no interest in football and that they needed a competition capable of opposing what they reproduce on digital platforms, which he seemingly saw as the Super League, which is now all but finished as a concept in its current form.
“We want to stay close to our fans. Our will is to create a competition that can bring benefits to the entire football pyramid, substantially increasing what is distributed to other clubs.
“A competition, I emphasise, which remains open and provides five places available to the other clubs. The nutrition of the youth sectors is maintained. The biggest problem with the football industry is stability.
“40 per cent of 15-24-year-olds have no interest in football. We need a competition capable of opposing what they reproduce on digital platforms, transforming the virtual into real.
“Football is no longer a game but an industrial sector and stability is needed. Even at home. In Europe, the game that is worth the most is not the Champions League final but the play-offs of the English first division to access the Premier League: 150 million. This is not stability.
“We need strict economic and financial rules such as those established in the Super League.”
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