Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted voiced his own opposition in October, citing a crowded soccer landscape. In September, the European Club Association, a body representing 234 clubs, issued a statement condemning the proposal. Since then, several entities have been outspoken in opposition. “The Premier League is committed to preventing any radical changes that would adversely affect player welfare and threaten the competitiveness, calendar, structures, and traditions of domestic football,” said Richard Masters, the league’s chief executive.Ī biennial World Cup was first brought to the table in September after FIFA released results of a 15,000-person survey indicating global support for the change from every four years to two. Premier League clubs have unanimously opposed FIFA’s push to double the frequency of the World Cup to every two years. Premier League Clubs Unanimously Oppose FIFA’s World Cup Plan leagues to La Liga - for The Mouse to work with.ĭisney+ and ESPN+ each grew their subscriber bases more than 60% year-over-year to 118.1 million and 17.1 million respectively in the latest fiscal quarter. If Disney envisions sports content in its metaverse, ESPN holds a plethora of sports media rights - from the major U.S. Square Enix recently released “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Avengers” games. It collaborated with game studio Rare to add “Pirates of the Caribbean” content to the “Sea of Thieves” franchise. 
Disney has worked with Epic Games to bring characters from “Star Wars” to “Fortnite.”.The company has been active in using its characters and narratives in video games, providing a base to build from should it join Meta, Microsoft, Epic, and Roblox in incorporating gaming into its planned metaverse. Disney already boasts an enormous, growing library of intellectual property - but now, the company is working on its own metaverse.ĬEO Bob Chapek said during last week’s earnings call that “our efforts to date are merely a prologue to a time when we’ll be able to connect the physical and digital worlds even more closely,” allowing for “storytelling without boundaries in our own Disney metaverse.”Ĭhapek elaborated in an interview with CNBC, saying, “My vision is to use Disney+ as the platform for the metaverse.”
0 kommentar(er)
