Marco Verratti conquered by the metaverse: the blue champion buys a private island

While waiting for the metaverse to take off, the engines of the digital universe are starting to heat up. More and more investors from other sectors, such as sports, music and cinema, are choosing to buy land and virtual assets as a form of investment. Among these is the midfielder of the national football team and Paris Saint-Germain, Marco Verratti, who bought an exclusive island, not in the Caribbean, but on The Sandbox.
The Sandbox was born in 2012 as a two-dimensional pixel art style videogame, which years later turns into a virtual three-dimensional world. Inside, users can socialize, buy and sell objects and land on which to build, using the secure technology of the Ethereum blockchain, but in fact also using real money, albeit in a completely digital dimension.
Verratti is the first footballer in the world who has decided to invest in a digital property, guided by the experience in the sector of Acta Fintech, the company led by Gian Luca Comandini, entrepreneur and tech popularizer, as well as founder and CEO of You & Web. The blue midfielder has purchased one of the 25 digital islands offered for sale on The Sandbox by Exclusible, a marketplace specializing in luxury NFT.