Not just clubs and leagues. Now also the greatest organism of world football, Fifa, launches its streaming service Oct. The digital platform is called FifaPlus and was created with the aim of bringing fans from all over the world closer to the sport they love, free of charge.
Fifa +, available from April 12, will allow access to live matches, interactive games, news, information on tournaments, unprecedented video content to offer a global narrative of men’s and women’s football and much more. At launch, FIFA + is available on mobile and web devices and in five languages (English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish), with six more languages to be added in June 2022.
The new Fifa experience
Fifa is the first sports federation to offer its fans a streaming experience of this level. “FIFA + is the next step in realizing our vision of making football truly global and inclusive, and is at the heart of FIFA’s core mission. to expand and develop football globally – said Fifa president Gianni Infantino -. This project represents a cultural shift in how different types of football fans want to explore and connect with world football and has been a key part of my vision for 2020-2023. It will accelerate the democratization of football and we are happy to share this project with the fans “
Live matches and archive
By the end of 2022, FIFA + will stream the equivalent of 40,000 live matches a year from 100 football associations from all six confederations, including 11,000 women’s football matches. FIFA + offers live coverage of both the biggest European leagues and the most overlooked competitions from around the world to date, featuring men’s, women’s and youth football matches. Since launch, 1,400 matches per month will be shown on FIFA +, a figure set to increase rapidly. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, FIFA + will host every match ever filmed from all FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cu in history, for a total of more than 2,000 hours of archival content. This comprehensive archive will be available to fans for the first time in history. Fans will be able to watch entire matches, highlights, goals and magical moments in one place. At launch, more than 2,500 videos dating back to the 1950s will be available in the FIFA + Archive, plus many more will be added over the course of the year.
Original documentaries and TV series
FIFA + will also provide original content such as feature films and documentary series, talk shows and short films that tell a wide range of stories, from small local realities to national teams and football heroes of yesterday and today, set in more than 40 countries. . In 2022, the contents of the FIFA + platform will continue to grow and evolve, offering new products of global and local interest throughout the year. Upon launch, FIFA + will bring the world of football to life through exclusive first-rate titles, including: Ronaldinho: The Happiest Man in the Worldan exclusive documentary film that gives you access to a large archive of never-before-seen footage of one of the sport’s most iconic players, directed by Stuart and Andrew Douglas, and produced by Bernie Goldmann and Simon Horsman and Jeffrey Soros of Los Angeles Media Fund.
The first season of Captainsa groundbreaking 8-episode series, curated by Fulwell 73 (Sunderland ‘Til I Die, All or Nothing: Juventus), which follows six captains as they lead their country in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, i.e. say Luka Modrić (Croatia), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Brian Kaltak (Vanuatu), Andre Blake (Jamaica), Hassan Maatouk (Lebanon) and Thiago Silva (Brazil). Croatia: Defining a Nation, instead, it is an original documentary that will tell the story of football’s ability to unite a country and generate aggregation through the story of a group of friends who reach world fame by overcoming great adversities. It’s still, HD Cutzan 8-episode original documentary series featuring star barber Sheldon Edwards, Dani Crazy Dream: a documentary series with Dani Alves, Golden Bootan original documentary series in 4 episodes of 48 minutes with interviews with the top scorers of the FIFA World Cup, Iconson the five players who revolutionized women’s football (Wendie Renard, Lucy Bronze, Asisat Oshoala, Carli Lloyd and Sam Kerr), and Academies, behind the scenes of some of the best talent generators in the world of football by Shoot the Company. The first season tells the story of RSC Anderlecht in 3 episodes of 30 minutes.