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Brera Holdings PLC Launches its FIFA® 23 Pro Clubs™ "Brera eSports Team"
In football-mad Italy only 56 pro and amateur clubs (just 4 in the Serie A First Division) have their own 11-man eSports team and Brera FC is now one of them
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[{"type":"text","content":"In football-mad Italy only 56 pro and amateur clubs (just 4 in the Serie A First Division) have their own 11-man eSports team and Brera FC is now one of them Brera eSports’s third online group stage match set for April 6 v. Serie B’s Palermo FC owned by Manchester’s City Football Group NEW YORK, DUBLIN and MILAN, March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brera Holdings PLC (“Brera Holdings” or the “Company” Nasdaq: BREA) launched its eSports activities with the establishment of Brera FC’s FIFA® 23 Pro Clubs™ Team by EA Sports, which will take part in the championship tournament organized by the Italian National Amateur League (the “League”), the \"LND E-Sport Cup.\" Pro Clubs is the FIFA® 23 online social video gaming mode played together by 11 separate gamers per team, with each controlling a single player, just like a real team of 11 players on the pitch. The Brera FIFA® 23 Pro Clubs™ squad is made up of about twenty professional video game players of different nationalities. League matches are held using the Sony PlayStation 5 console. Brera eSports Player Matches are played every Wednesday at 9.30 p.m. CET, and the League is designed on the British FA Cup model. Despite football’s widespread popularity in Italy, only 56 professional and amateur clubs (including just four in the Serie A First Division) have their own FIFA® 23 Pro Clubs™ team. Brera’s third online group stage match is set for April 6, 2023 versus Serie B’s Palermo FC, owned by Manchester’s City Football Group. “The decision to focus on becoming an eSports leader for Italian football is just another example of Brera FC innovation in all football-related activities,” said Brera Holdings’ CEO Sergio Scalpelli. “This is why we decided to enter and lead such a small circle of Italian football clubs currently active in FIFA® 23 Pro Clubs™,” Scalpelli continued. According to an Insider Intelligence research report, there were 532 million eSports viewers worldwide in 2022 with an estimated 29.8 million in the US—eventually climbing to 34.8 million in 2026. Just like traditional professional sports, eSports teams have owners, franchises, endorsement deals, cash prizes from tournament winnings, and more—all contributing to their annual revenue and total valuation. According to IIDEA’s Report on eSports in Italy 2022, presented in partnership with Nielsen, 475,000 people in Ita...