Footballer Gérard Piqué recently launched a new competition, the Kings World Cup, broadcast on the Twitch platform. The Frenchman Amine will participate.
The streamer Amine, known under the pseudonym aminematue, announced this Monday March 18 his participation in the 1st Kings World Cup, a seven-a-side football competition organized by Gérard Piqué. Amine had already organized the Eleven All Star at the end of 2022, a football match between French and Spanish content creators, which took place at the Jean Bouin stadium in Paris and brought together 1,155,060 spectators live on the live broadcast platform. Twitch line.
What is the Kings World Cup?
The Kings World Cup is a seven-a-side football world cup organized by former FC Barcelona footballer Gérard Piqué and broadcast on Twitch. Through his company Kosmos, the defender launched the Kings League at the end of 2023, a championship bringing together teams led by Spanish-speaking streamers, which reviews the standard codes of football. Two leagues already exist: one in Spain and one in South America. With this World Cup, Piqué wants to bring together 32 teams for a World Cup, with 10 teams from the Spanish league, 10 from the South American league and 12 invited teams, coming from different countries around the world.
A five-star casting for an exceptional cash prize
In addition to streamer Amine, who will play the role of president of the selection, many football stars have already been announced. The Brazilian Neymar will also have a team, as will former German international Mario Götze, who will be in a duo with influencer Younes Zarou. As president of the competition, Gérard Piqué also announced the presence of the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovicthe “King of kings” in his own words in his presentation video.
For this first edition, Piqué saw the big picture. The competition will be held at Mexico for two weeks, with a million dollars at stake for the team that wins the competition.
An open selection
Unlike the Eleven All Star which brought together influencers and content creators, ten of the twelve players in the French selection will be selected via an application open to all. 50 potential players will be pre-selected for trials, in order to select the ten best who will participate in the Kings World Cup. Finally, two players will be directly chosen by Amine. The French streamer also announced that the name of the team would be revealed live on his Twitch channel this Tuesday, March 19, at 8 p.m.
Piqué multiplies sporting experiences
We had already recently heard Piqué criticize the 90-minute format of the football match. In this competition, he tries new approaches, with bonuses for the teams such as the possibility of having a goal that counts double for a certain time or the possibility of obtaining a penalty. With this competition, it also brings the broadcast model back into play, with full and exclusive broadcast on Twitch. His company Kosmos also bought the operation of the Davis Cup Tennis in 2018, before completely changing its format. Faced with the failure of this new formula, the international tennis federation, the ITF, announced in January 2023 the end of the partnership.