TOPGOAL: How will the metaverse change the football industry?

When we hold cash in hand, waiting in a bustling line for a long time, and finally buy a ticket to a sports event, it’s hard to imagine what the experience of snatching tickets on a smart client would be like.

The impact brought by the mobile internet era is still fresh in our memories. At present, we still find it difficult to foresee how we will interact and collide with our favorite stars and clubs in the future. People continuously fantasize about its appearance, imagining a fully immersive, real-life interactive experience, envisioning a second life world created in the metaverse without giants, without data monopolies.

Football is the largest segment of the sports industry, with an annual output value exceeding $500 billion, accounting for more than 40% of the entire sports field. It is foreseeable that the market scale of the Web3.0 metaverse sports industry will also be quite considerable. What does Web3.0 metaverse mean for football? TopGoal Co-Founder Xander said, "The characteristics of decentralization, openness, and reward mechanisms in Web3.0 align very well with the passion, freedom, struggle, and competition represented by football. The overlap of the audience is extremely high, and I believe the integration of the two will produce wonderful chemical reactions."

TopGoal is a sports metaverse platform with high-quality global football IP copyrights and a team with over 10 years of successful development experience in AAA football games. Its vision is to bring sports IP into the Web3.0 field, providing new digital experiences and entertainment consumption methods for world-renowned stars, clubs, and a vast number of fans.

TopManager is the first phase Web3 game product of TopGoal, a 3D football manager game that uses cutting-edge cloud gaming technology. Fans can start the game with NFT card assets, build their own teams to play football, participate in leagues and tournaments with friends, and share the rewards and profits of the TopGoal ecosystem. TopManager has currently attracted tens of thousands of users, with peak DAU reaching over 20K according to real-time data from DappBay, and the community is very active.

To realize the football metaverse, the Web3.0 built on blockchain technology is one of the technical foundations that TopGoal envisions to become a reality, enhancing fan interaction and participation through VR and 3D virtual human technology. This process needs to be carried out in three phases and tools:

Phase One: Virtual Stadium Experience of TopGoal Metaverse

Technology: VR; NFTs

Due to time and distance, the cost of entering a stadium is high for most fans. TopGoal is developing and leveraging 3D and VR technology to allow fans to choose seats in the virtual stadium of their favorite club. In the future, based on VR live streaming technology, fans can even enter the VR stadium on match days to watch games with friends, cheering for their favorite teams as if they were there in person.

After the match, some exciting moments will be made into digital collectibles based on NFT technology and other digital memorabilia from clubs (such as digital jerseys, limited edition digital trophies, etc.) for fans to view and purchase. Statistics show that less than 1% of fans are fortunate enough to attend an important match in person. With the above technology, the remaining 99% of fans will surely be much happier.

Phase Two: Virtual SocialFi Experience of TopGoal Metaverse

Technology: Efficient and realistic virtual human technology; advanced real-time rendering engine; cloud gaming technology; 10,000+ action and facial expression library

When people's physiological and safety needs are met, social needs become the most intense and desired. Virtual socializing can break the limitations of time and space, connecting people from all over the world. In the TopGoal SocialFi community, continuous technological innovation will make everything much easier, and the TopGoal team is fully prepared technically.

Fans can create their own 3D avatars, enter their favorite club space to watch matches and communicate with other fans, and even participate in virtual open days, virtual museum tours, virtual press conferences, and virtual meet-and-greets with their favorite stars. Through virtual clubs, fans will have the opportunity to interact more closely with their beloved clubs and players in the virtual world.

Phase Three: Virtual Leagues and Tournaments

Technology: Football AI; comprehensive football action library; game system design capabilities

Sports can sometimes be cruel because there is only one winner. Many fans may not see their teams win a trophy for decades.

The ultimate goal of the TopGoal metaverse is to create a parallel world with virtual World Cups and virtual leagues, giving some people more opportunities to win championships. Fans can hire virtual scouts for their favorite clubs to discover stars and train them to become virtual legendary players. All virtual player data will be on-chain and controlled by AI. The behavioral data of virtual players in the TopGoal metaverse will be used for training and determining their growth paths, becoming unique players. In the TopGoal metaverse, fans may also witness their favorite clubs, which have never won championships in reality, have the opportunity to win titles.

Web3.0 metaverse is a long-term game for the football industry; it is more like a vision for 5 to 10 years. TopGoal hopes to connect football (sports) and Web3 through its technology, allowing more fans to have better experiences, creating an interactive way that brings fans closer to stars, giving fans a sense of belonging and value, and enabling clubs and stars to expand new business models through Web3, seamlessly integrating sports and digital experiences. This will be a more imaginative and challenging endeavor, worthy of our anticipation and outlook.