One of the biggest football clubs in the world, the Catalan team Barcelona is preparing to launch a club-owned token and NFT.
According to the world-famous sports channel ESPN, speaking at the opening speech of the “Mobile World Congress” held in the Catalan city this week, Barcelona President Juan Laporte said that the club will launch a series of non-fungible tokens in the near future. (NFT) will put on the market and enter the cryptocurrency market He said they were working for him.
that Barca has developed its own metaverse universe and own digital currency units Laporta stated that many crypto money companies turned down the partnership offer because they wanted to focus on development in-house;
We want to create our own cryptocurrency and we have to do it ourselves. We are different because we survive financially by what we can produce through the sports industry. We don’t have big companies or shareholders behind us. This forces us to be creative, innovative, courageous and stay ahead of many areas surrounding the sports industry.
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Laporte added that they hope to launch Barca’s first NFT series soon as part of a project that will “help fund the club.”
We will present something we can share with our fans around the world. I can explain more but I have to be careful because it is still a confidential project. We are a modern club using new media. The players know what we’re working on. There are clauses in their contracts about the NFT world and the metaverse.
Barcelona’s A fan token of cryptocurrency It is not known whether it will be used as a vehicle or as a means of payment for tickets and goods.
Managed by fans, unlike most of the big football clubs, Barcelona’s management is more driven by shareholders. 160,000 members built around it. According to Forbes, the world in 2021 most valuable football club it happened.