Beyond Limits' Olumide hails Optima Energy Gold Cup organizers with SofaScore innovation

 

The idea of the organizers of 2024 Optima Energy Gold Cup to have their games stream on popular SofaScore Application has been commended by the Head Coach of Beyond Limits, Ajibolade Olumide. 

Recall before the kickoff, Optima Energy Gold Cup has announced SofaScore as its official technical partner. 

Sofascore, owned and developed by Croatia based tech company SofaIT, will in the next three years, starting from 12th edition to collect and analyse match data to the millions of global users of the Sofascore app, of teams and players taking part in the nation's sought-after off-season football tournament. 

"I think the positive of the 12th edition is the fact that games were now live on the SofaScore app," Olumide said. 

"I have not been around since the tournament started, but I was able to follow the games in detail. 

"Even before the tourney started, the schedule was already up on the app, which was really freshing to see, so it's a positive development. 

"However, the football is still the same, the quality is there so we appreciate the fact that quality teams still grace the tournament and hopefully in subsequent seasons, we keep having proper teams and we keep having a good tournament."

Beyond Limits, who became the second team to make a back-to-back final, will battle Shooting Stars for the off season's biggest accolade on Saturday at the Remo Stars International Stadium, with 3pm as kick-off time.

Optima Energy Gold Cup announce SofaScore as Technical Partner

The Optima Energy Gold Cup has announced SofaScore as its official technical partner for its pre-season football tournament for the next three (3) years.

Sofascore, owned and developed by Croatia based tech company SofaIT will collect and analyse match data to the millions of global users of the Sofascore app, of teams and players taking part in the 2024 edition of the nation's sought-after off-season football tournament. 

Remo Stars Stadium, Ikenne, and FC Ebedei Stadium in Sagamu are billed to host the Optima Energy Gold Cup from August 15th to 24th.

"The Optima Energy Gold Cup is thrilled to join forces with SofaScore, as they are considered among the leading statistical analysts in football, bringing to fans the most comprehensive and insightful football analysis available," said Tunde Shamsudeen, the tournament General Coordinator.

"As the off-season football tourney continues to captivate our audiences in the last 11 editions, arose the need to take it to a new level at the 12th edition in Ikenne and Sagamu 

"The partnership is set to revolutionize pre-season football in Nigeria, with infographics custom-made to fit content of our domestic football League. 

"Fans can leverage on this unique experience by downloading the SofaScore app on their mobile devices from the Google PlayStore or Apple Store to keep track of their favorite teams and players' match-by-match stats."

NLO strengthens image branding, visibility as Honourable Agara visits Zagreb to sign pact with SofaScore

 

Poised to take the nation's grassroot football to enviable heights, Chairman of the Nationwide League One, His Excellency Silas Agara arrived in Zagreb, the Croatian capital for a sports business conference. 

On Wednesday 5, June 2024 in Zagreb, the former Nasarawa State Deputy Governor began his trip, as a guest at the headquarters of Sofascore, where he met Zlatko Hrkać (the co-founders of Sofascore) and other top executives Marta Bihar, Toni Jermaniš and Filip Vrlec.

From there Agara was at Hotel Falkensteiner & SPA Iadera located on the Adriatic Coast of Croatia, for his first event, which was to network with all the partnership clubs of Sofascore across the world. 

Next on his trip, the NLO boss will attend a two-day Sunset Sports Media Festival beginning from Thursday to Friday. 

While speaking from Zagreb with the NLO Media Channel, a delighted Agara said. 

"Football in Nigeria has over the years been in high demand, looking at the quality that makes it to Europe and other parts of the world. More so there are a lot of on-tapped talents everywhere, thus making the Nationwide League One the best platform that can create a career pathway for many of these talents. 

"We are delighted that the NLO now has  international interest amongst fans and corporate brands, this development in the long run can help our grassroot football realise its enormous potential. 

"Our first season with Sofascore has been a rewarding one, as it has provided an opportunity for more fan engagements, by way of comments, predicting the scoreline of matches and also seeing minute-by-minute live scores of their teams pop up on their devices by way of notifications once they have the app."

NLO unveils three technical partners to accelerate growth, development

 

The Nationwide League One (NLO) on Thursday announced its technical partners in Abuja, to drive referral revenue, generate quality leads, and accelerate growth in Nigeria’s third-tier domestic football division.

The Chairman of NLO, His Excellency Silas Agara, named three technical partners: Sofascore, SportsMeetTech, and Naemosports. 

Sofascore, a Croatian sports-tracking platform with over 25 million active monthly users worldwide, has partnered with NLO to assist in bringing on board all other leagues in Nigeria. This partnership is not based on any monetary value but on shared benefits in developing the league. 

SportsMeetTech, an IT firm, will develop a website and social media channels for all NLO clubs. They will also train club officials on how to manage the sites and commercialize them to generate funds to support their clubs. The revenue will be shared between NLO, clubs, and SMT.

Naemosports, a data company, will facilitate talent discovery with the use of technology. They will access NLO’s data, and the benefits will be on revenue sharing when the data are sold. NLO has a device to monitor what they do with the data.