Eleven All Stars: more than a million viewers for a France-Spain football match between "streamers" in Paris

They are more used to playing with joysticks than with their feet.

French and Spanish “streamers” took part in a very real football match on Saturday evening, in front of 20,000 spectators at the Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris and up to more than a million people in front of remote screens.

The score (victory of France 2-0) and the level of the match are anecdotal.

The important thing is elsewhere: these video game players who share and comment on their games live now organize their own sports competitions between content creators.

And they capture an audience worthy of the great traditional competitions.

VICTORY 😀 thank you SO MUCH we just had an unforgettable moment.

Thank you to the public, to the viewers, to the team.

What happened tonight is marked for life.

It was a lot of coal and organization, this vent and it paid off if all this is possible it's thanks to YOU ​​❤️

— Amine 😞🌧 (@AmineMaTue) November 19, 2022

On the eve of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, everything was "real": sold-out stadium (seats sold between 15 and 53 euros), referees (including video refereeing system), 24 cameras, sponsors on the lawn and on the Twitch platform, as well as a media partner (Canal +).

Without forgetting faces known to football fans, commentator Alexandre Ruiz (ex-beIN Sports) in management and on the lawn Laurent Paganelli (former professional footballer who became an interviewer for Canal +).

“Paga” thus carried out, as he usually does, in his unbridled style, his interviews with the players on the bench during the match.

There were even bad gestures: heavy contact between players, a red card for a Spaniard and Spanish players attacking a linesman, forcing the organizers not to play a last minute that had become too tense.

Opening mini-rap concert

On the lawn, the stars of video games and other platforms that have entered the real world for once were there: AmineMaTue (1.4 million followers on the Twitch platform), organizer of the event, in the pre- center, and Carlito, star youtubeur, in central defense.

In the ranks of Spain, DjMaRiiO, renowned youtubeur, was also at the rendezvous of this Eleven All Stars.

[ 🇫🇷 FRANCE |

🇪🇸 SPAIN ]

⚽️ The match is over!

After an INCREDIBLE match, the French team wins against the Spanish team with a score of 2 to 0!

A HUGE congratulations to our very beautiful team from France led by @AmineMaTue.

What show !

#ElevenAllStars pic.twitter.com/ehkQUwAMRJ

— (Little) Think Tank (@L_ThinkTank) November 19, 2022

As a bonus, a mini-rap concert, with French big names, Niska and Gazo, among others, served as a curtain raiser.

A strong signal sent to the professional football leagues which are struggling to attract these artists who are popular with a young audience.

This event is part of the trend of large-scale physical competitions between content creators, generating record audiences, well beyond the world of "gaming", like the GP Explorer, organized in October.

This fifteen-lap car race between 22 "influencer" drivers on Formula 4 cars, launched by Squeezie (17 million subscribers on YouTube), brought together nearly 40,000 spectators in the stands of the Le Mans circuit.

There too, more than a million "viewers" had been counted.