The football season is back and to celebrate, this episode takes a deep dive into FC Barcelona’s recent €120m investment from Libero Football Finance AG and private investors advised by NIPA Capital…

What is super interesting with this investment is how the headlines read:

“FC Barcelona secures €120m war chest for Web3 initiative”

But… When you look beneath the surface, it’s super clear that these deals are actually focused on helping Barcelona to sign new players and meet their financial plan submitted to La Liga.

So what’s really going on here?

Listen to discover how Barcelona are leveraging their Brand, IP and digital content strategy to eradicate the challenges of today, whilst building towards a brighter tomorrow!

P.S - We know, we know… This episode is a whopping 7 minutes - not 3 minutes…

It was a great tagline and concept but the reality, time flies when you’re in Web3. Moving forward, we will be scrapping the 3 minute tagline and instead, we will focus on being the “the byte-sized podcast exploring Web3”.

So (hopefully) insightful quick deep dives between 5-10 minutes.

Just don’t hold us to that 😂


Sources for the podcast and content include (but not limited to):

https://www.socios.com/fc-barcelona-to-accelerate-web3-strategy-as-socios-com-invests-100m-in-barca-studios/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomsanderson/2023/08/11/fc-barcelona-announce-new-120-million-economic-lever-to-register-buy-new-players/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomsanderson/2023/07/04/fc-barcelonas-economic-levers-partners-fail-to-pay-up-reports/

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/fc-barcelonas-unit-to-list-in-us-via-$1-bln-spac-deal

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/fc-barcelonas-unit-to-list-in-us-via-$1-bln-spac-deal


Correction: In the podcast, the host details Barcelona have sold 49% of future broadcasting rights. This is not correct. Barcelona have sold 25% of future broadcasting rights to investment firm Sixth Street for 25 years. 

This was confused as FC Barcelona have sold 49% of its digital content business and have authorised the sale of 49% of their Licensing and Merchandise business. 

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