TheFutbolApp (TFA) is the first gamified social network for all football fans, players, clubs and coaches around the world.

TheFutbolApp
5 min readFeb 3, 2021

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Football is a mass phenomenon because it’s great at bringing people together. They are united by the fact that they are fans of the same club, the national team or just any aspect of football. The football community represents a huge audience, indeed it’s the biggest community in the world with approximately four billion fans globally.

There is not a single social network on the market today that targets all football fans — fanatic and not so fanatic, players, clubs and coaches — professional and amateur or recreational. With the current COVID-19 pandemic games are being played in empty stadiums. It’s weird without the fans. This drives a bigger desire for fans to be even more involved with fellow fans, their club and football in general. This is one of the many drivers for the organic growth of TheFutbolApp (TFA).

With existing offerings and resources it’s time consuming and difficult for the football fan to get all (s)he wants. I am a football fan. To get what I need I use Twitter, Instagram, multiple fan forums — some open some closed, web sites and apps (like many I have given up on Facebook). This whole experience takes time. A lot of time. Not productive obviously. It is difficult for fans to interact with each other as there is no single consistent, all encompassing ecosystem. It’s difficult to to really participate in large communities, since social networks such Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (perhaps the most popular for football) do not provide an all encompassing single football ecosystem that is fun and rich in experience.

TFA is the first gamified social network that is themed around all aspects of football. It’s a social network that is second to none and richer in natural functionality than any other social network. As a result TFA connects football fans around the world more easily in a fashion that is more fun, more productive and more rewarding. Engaging in TFA is rewarding in several ways. TFA is also a perfect platform for players, coaches and clubs.

What does TFA platform offer?

  • Social:. Follow your favorite players. Get informed about what they post on their social networks and interact with them.
  • Games: The game has started. Contribute to live match discussions. Poor refereeing decisions, missed chances, goals, great goals scored, bad defending, poor goals conceded, should have been a red card for that tackle. Man we are playing great or oh boy what’s wrong with them today?
  • Info: Team lineups, head to head history of results for the club we are playing, posts from players ahead of the game and more. You can find out all this in TFA.
  • Chat” Communication is one of the most popular parts of TFA. You can conveniently interact with other fans one to one, in a public fan chat room of that club, create your own private chat room for just your friends. You exchange ideas, share comments, predict the score, blame the ref for poor decisions, bemoan the team’s bad luck, enjoy great actions in the game and really celebrate a victory..

What is the advantage of TFA over other social networks?

First of all, all community members are united by one interest — football. You no longer need to search for groups of your favorite club or national team on Facebook or Reddit. Just need to install the app.

During a game you can participate in live discussions, one-to-one or with a selected private group of friends or all fans in that club’s chat room.

How is engaging with TFA rewarding?

All the experiences shared above means using TFA is productive as you can get all your club’s information in one location and ecosystem. You can also auto translate all news stories gathered from sources worldwide into any language. In addition to all these experiences you can participate in games and quizzes in chat rooms. Many TFA participation activities are rewarded with points which can be converted to TFA’s native and integrated crypto called TheFutbolCoin (TFC). TFC is a token that monetizes all the attention to the sport of football and enables a digital economy that benefits all members of the community. Unlike all other social networks that keep all revenues for themselves (is Mr Zuckerberg the richest man in the world?) TFA shares its advertising revenues with its community of users via TFC tokenization.

How can I get TFC tokens?

Inside TheFutbolApp. 500 million tokens have been allocated to be earned free by “social mining” within TFA. Users can earn points (which they can seamlessly convert to TFC in TFA) in many ways including playing the free daily predictions game, inviting friends, posting comments and content, messaging friends and participating in games in the public chat rooms.

People can buy TFC on any participating exchanges such as Bittrex.

P2P transactions between users. You can exchange / give TFC with your friends in TFA.

Merchants can accept TFC for goods and services. This is very easy to do and there are more than 100 business that already participate. All participating business are listed in TFA.

With the help of TFA, all constituents of the sport of football — fans, clubs, players and supporting merchants — will be rewarded in many ways including economically.

TFC Utility and Advantages

Because it’s integrated deeply into TFA, a powerful social networking, communication and commerce platform, TFC has an edge on any token that has no such enabling ecosystem. TFC can be sent between users and also redeemed with participating merchants with one click ease. TFC is used exclusively as the way to pay for ads within the TFC ecosystem. There is a potential unlimited amount of digital human attention to football, to the degree TFA captures that market the demand for TFC increases. Merchants can power loyalty programs and discount programs using the tokens, directly reaching the audience through TFA app. TFC also has all the characteristics of any token on a widely distributed decentralised blockchain (TFC is a Stellar asset). As a result, transactions happen in 3 seconds with less than 1 penny for transaction. TFC is also used by advertisers as a means to pay users directly to receive their promotional messages. And last but not least, football clubs are contemplating adoption of TFC as the exclusive way to pay for tickets and merchandise. TFA reaches the users, and provides a one touch easy impulse buy opportunity to the fan, increasing revenues for the participating football club.

📢 Have fun finding out more about TFA and TFC” https://thefutbolcoin.io

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