- RCD Espanyol will change into the primary member {of professional} soccer league, La Liga, to settle for bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies.
- Fans might be ready to buy tickets, merchandising and meals and drinks.
- RCD joins a rising record {of professional} sport leagues to undertake bitcoin.
Next season, Reial Club Deportivo (RCD) Espanyol will change into the primary workforce in La Liga, Spain’s main soccer league, to settle for bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies for the acquisition of tickets, merchandise and meals and drinks, in accordance to a press release.
“The sponsorship agreement offers huge advantages both on and off the pitch, and for both Pericos and all soccer fans who visit our fantastic facilities,” said Mao Ye Wu, CEO of Espanyol. “With this step, we become pioneers in a field that is not the future, but already the present.”
Through this sponsorship with Crypto Snack, Espanyol is committing to a long-term approach of adopting cryptocurrency. This adoption is set to bring Bitcoin to the forefront of Europe through one of the main professional soccer leagues in the world.
“We signed an settlement for the rest of the season and three extra years that features the presence of [Crypto Snack] within the coaching shirt and within the first workforce shorts. We are an enterprising membership and we wish to be a Blockchain sector assembly level,” Antoni Alegre, director of promoting for Espanyol, stated.
RCD Espanyol is one the oldest golf equipment in La Liga. Angel Rodríguez based the membership in 1900 below the identify Sociedad Española de Football, a university sports activities membership on the time trying to undertake the brand new English sport. Later, the identify grew to become Reial Club Deportivo Espanyol in 1912, when King Alfonso XIII awarded a royal title to the membership.
The continued diffusion of bitcoin within the realm {of professional} sports activities has seen the Tennessee Titans change into the primary NFL workforce to settle for bitcoin for big and recurring purchases, Coinbase sponsor the NFL, Bitcoin Magazine accomplice with two Ukrainian NBA gamers for humanitarian aid in Ukraine, and different types of adoption. Espanyol now seems to capitalize on this development and has made a multi-year dedication to accomplish that.
