THELOGICALINDIAN - Phil Jones has become the latest sports amount to advance in the metaverse The longestserving Manchester United amateur in the accepted band Jones has helped avant-garde a atypical metaverse associates activity dubbed Red Lion Sports Club RLSC in affiliation with media belvedere Antourage
The Sports Club is a committed online amplitude area admirers and athletes can appear calm to comedy games, watch content, access competitions and abutment accommodating causes. Access is bound to aloof 4,000 members, with a metaverse-ready NFT acting as a key to the curated agreeable within. These hot agenda bolt are to be tokenized on Solana’s accelerated blockchain, priced at 2 SOL per NFT (around $250 at today’s prices).
Jones has been the accountable of online corruption for the majority of his injury-hit career, and the 2013 Premier League champ is acclaimed for abandonment amusing media aback in 2017. But the apostle has kept active during this absence, application the time to instead focus on ancestors and apprentice about new, arising technologies. More recently, Jones has “spent [the past] six months researching and acquirements about Web 3.0 and the abeyant of the metaverse” – background that led to his accommodation to barrage RLSC.
“It’s article I’m absolutely amorous about, and the abstraction abaft the Red Lion Sports Club is to accredit a new way of agreeable with admirers that promotes a 18-carat faculty of association abiding in alternate account for added members,” Jones said. “RLSC will be a area for admirers of all sports that appetite to accept a say in how a agenda association grows and develops, collaborate with athletes, celebrities and added members, and access the agreeable that will be created about above events.
“I’m absolutely aflame to accept developed this activity with Antourage and can’t delay to alpha affable bodies to the Red Lion Sports Club community.”
The above contest to which Jones alludes includes English Premier League accessories as able-bodied as the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, golf’s British Open and the NBA playoffs. Agreeable committed to these occasions will accommodate custom-built mini amateur and fan-influenced agreeable shows, with EA Sports FIFA Global Series host Rachel Stringer already on lath as a presenter.
One of the absolute areas of the Sports Club will be The Boardroom, a basic branch area associates get to accept their say on affairs such as agreeable programming and accommodating partners. NFT owners additionally get admission to all approaching Clubs launched by the Red Lions project, including the eponymous football club appointed to barrage afore this summer’s Women’s Euros.
“We are aflame to barrage Antourage’s aboriginal metaverse activity and captivated to accept Phil onboard as the active force abaft Red Lion Sports Club,” said Antourage CEO Johan Junker. “This activity is at the affection of Antourage’s existence: to affix passion-driven fan communities with accurate agreeable that is broadcast beyond the latest amusing platforms.
“We accept admirers should be at the centre of the agreeable ecosystem and be adored for their engagement. Red Lions Sports Club absolutely represents this aesthetics and Web 3.0, apprenticed by the metaverse, will accelerate this change that will bear greater amount and a richer acquaintance for admirers and creators alike.”
Based in Stockholm, Antourage leverages architect agreeable to body affianced fan communities. Its proprietary technology is additionally acclimated by above sports brands including the NHL’s LA Kings. According to Junker, Red Lion Sports Club will barrage in a arresting metaverse advanced of this year’s World Cup, which bliss off in November.
