08/25/2021 11:17 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/25/2021 11:17 PM
The announcement, as every time this king of streaming spreads a news of such magnitude, shook the networks:
Ibai Llanos
revealed that he will
broadcast on his Twitch channel
the match that can mark the debut of
Lionel Messi
at
Paris Saint-Germain
.
He had already done it at the time with Copa América games, and now he can mark another milestone in what is probably the most anticipated match in the world.
How did this come about?
It so happens that
Gerard Piqué
, Messi's former teammate at FC Barcelona, acquired the television rights to the French Football League (Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, the two main categories) through his company
Kosmos
and in collaboration with
Enjoy Television
.
As announced on Wednesday by the site
playbook.com
, the contract - an operation logically motivated by Messi's landing at PSG - will be until 2024 for an undisclosed figure "but which
will exceed the 2.5 million euros per year
" paid by the previous owner of the rights for the televising of French football.
This Sunday at 8:45 p.m. you can see Leo Messi's debut with PSG for free on my Twitch channel.
With image, obviously.
It's going to be a truly historic day for all of us who are dedicated to this, so I would ask you to blow up the platform.
❤️❤️
- Ibai (@IbaiLlanos) August 25, 2021
The Spanish newspaper
Mundo Deportivo
indicated in this regard that "in this way, Piqué -through his company- will exploit the rights of a league that has grown in expectation after the arrival at PSG of Leo Messi, with whom the center-back shared a dressing room for many seasons at Barcelona ".
Meanwhile, the announcement of the company (the same one that was behind the reformulation of the
Davis Cup
tennis
format) is awaited
to know through which platform or television medium the French championship matches can be followed.
The sources that revealed the operation "
do not rule out
that it is through the Llanos Twitch channel, as was done in the last Copa América, with good audience results," added the portal of the Catalan newspaper.
The objective of the company led by Piqué is to
sublicense or rent the broadcasting rights to a television channel or internet television platform
that operates in Spain, according to company sources explained to the EFE agency.
For this reason,
it is not planned that Kosmos will broadcast
the French championship
by its own means
, as it did with the 2021 America Cup this summer, which it offered through the narrator's channel (who has 7.4 million followers) in the live video platform over the internet Twitch.
Piqué and Llanos "maintain
a close personal and professional relationship
", in addition to the fact that Ibai himself was able to interview Messi exclusively in Paris "the same day he was officially presented as a new PSG player," the Spanish media highlight.
At its best.
Ibai comes from meeting Messi at his home and received the invitation to be in Paris.
What will happen then?
Will Ibai be the one to broadcast it on his own channel?
For now, this Sunday's game will go through its space.
With one caveat: as with the Copa América, it
will be exclusive to the Spanish territory
, although many users, as usual, will choose a VPN to access the content.
And it will be
another milestone in streaming
, which is becoming stronger in the world of sports, seeks to compete hand in hand with the traditional television networks and now it will have nothing less than the best player in the world on screen.
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