The former Milan and Barcelona manager invests together with other entrepreneurs: „I like challenges“.

Ariedo Braida, former manager of Milan and Barcelona and now general manager of Cremonese, has also decided to bet on esport. In fact, he has participated in the capital increase of MCES Italia together with other entrepreneurs, including Carlo Cancellieri, former partner of Francesco Totti in some of the activities of the former Giallorossi captain. The organization announced that the capital increase will be used to develop new projects and to consolidate the current offer, based on the talent scouting of promising esport players and the participation in esport tournaments such as FIFA and Fortnite.

MCES – The focus of MCES, which debuted in Italy last year as a rib of the French club, is to create a „cantera“ of young talents, to be able to bring to the first team but also to propose to other clubs, both sports and esports. „We will try to create new sources of revenue for the startup and invest in innovation and in the technological platform that we are developing for our sports and esports clubs,“ explains Tommaso Maria Ricci, general manager of MCES Italia. In 2020, the team achieved good results in FIFA, PUBG Mobile and Fortnite (it is fifth in Italy). For next year they aim higher: „We want to be among the top five Italian esport teams,“ Ricci says. To evaluate players‘ performance, MCES, through a collaboration with Vibre, uses specific devices to monitor stress levels and understand in detail how young people react to pressure.

TALENTS – MCES‘ strong focus on the development of a cantera of promising young players, through the various „gaming clubs“ and online and offline tournaments, has been the element of greatest interest for the new investors. Cancellieri and Braida aim to create their own esport organization: the close link with MCES will serve to have a pool of talent to draw from. „Our aim is to combine our football expertise with our esport expertise, which is now the future,“ says Cancellieri. „We have explored the investment with Braida to understand why he was interested in esports.“

Braida, what convinced you to invest in esports?

„The world is evolving and I've always liked to experiment. For me, it's like a small challenge and I like challenges and new ideas,“ the Cremonese general manager answers. „I'll just say one thing: in 1992 I held a convention on Artificial Intelligence. I was thinking about how AI could be used to improve a footballer's skills: at the time it was too far ahead and I wasn't good at it. In life you always have to look forward, I don't like to talk about the past: let's think about what we will do in the future and what our projects will be. And these are the projects of a new world, where technology has taken over.“

He talked about looking forward. Esports have become the reference for young people. Do regular sports really have no attraction to the younger generation anymore?

„That's what history is for. When I was a kid, we'd get out of school and go running and kick the ball around. Today I see my kids: they go out very little because they have to go to school. Nowadays it's all virtual.“

Sounds a bit catastrophic: traditional sports can't catch young people anymore?

„That's what I was saying before: my kids don't go out and play anymore, they don't have the time. Kids are playing less and less sports.“

Is it sports, then, that needs esports?

„That seems to be the direction. I'm afraid we're getting used to not experiencing sports or going to stadiums anymore. People are starting to drift away: they used to go out to go to a game while now, also because of the emergency, they don't want to get cold and go out, they're used to it. I hope that passion will return: people are getting lazy. I'm afraid that in a while we'll get used to playing without an audience, but I hope it won't be like that.“

This is more or less what was said when satellite TV arrived: however, the people in the stadiums are still there.

„It's a test and it will be necessary to see our reactions. We must learn to discover new frontiers.“

Esports walk a fine line between sports and entertainment: in your opinion, which way do they tend?

„It's probably both: there's no choice. Slowly, they'll find a definite path. There will come a time when it will become clear where we are going.“

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The third round of CBLoL graced us with the duel between the two teams that were unbeaten in the championship until then, Flamengo and RED Canids. The pack tested a composition different from what it had been bringing until then, and was punished by the red-black squad. PaiN, one of the favorites of League of Legends fans, was run over by Vorax!

paiN Gaming 0-1 Vorax

The base of the PRG 2020 team, which almost beat the fatherN in the semifinals of CBLoL, proved again to be a difficult opponent for the Traditionalists. From the beginning, with First Blood in the top and Krastyel shooting down Cariok in the jungle, the paiN found it difficult to run their global game of Taliyah and Twisted Fate. With Tahm Kench, Galio and Jhin, Vorax was also able to respond to moves with speed, and by its advantage at the beginning of the game, it began to win fights and run over PaiN. BrTT was the team's great hope, but even the „father“ couldn't hold on to the impetus of the Vorazes, who completed the dent by finishing 17-2 in battles at 29 minutes.

Iniciar em cima do @Woswoslol não foi uma boa ideia. 👀#CBLOL

AO VIVO 🔴 https://t.co/A7ZSPZMdYc pic.twitter.com/PM9Y602nKw

— CBLOL (@CBLOL) January 30, 2021

FURIA Esports 0-1 KaBuM eSports

The FURIA keeps having difficulties inside the game and betting all its chips on Anyyy. This time, a wrong initiation of the team in the Herald was heavily punished by KaBuM, who won three slaughters for the hands of Evrot (Twisted Fate). With an extremely mobile composition, the Ninjas accelerated the game, mainly betting on the initiatives of Professor (Rakan). For FURIA, Anyyy climbed with his Orianna and started giving problems to KaBuM, but nothing that could not be controlled. With an Ace in the middle at 30 minutes, in Anyyy's first death, the Ninjas finished the game.

Flemish eSports 1-0 RED Canids

RED Canids brought a composition that showed a little scaling for the late game, which did not fit well with what brought them to 4-0 in CBLoL. Clearly a little uncomfortable collectively, the players had difficulties to fit their game, and Flamengo took advantage. Ranger gankou bot several times, shooting Absolut and RedBert in the advantage. The Flemish Support returned the favor by being a starter and exquisite tank to the red-black. RED had no chance. Even when they started well, the Fla reacted fast and turned the fights. The GG came at 26 minutes of play.

ACE @FLAESPORTS! 🔥🔥#CBLOL

AO VIVO 🔴 https://t.co/A7ZSPZMdYc pic.twitter.com/uDn01XZduY

— CBLOL (@CBLOL) January 30, 2021

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Super Bowl LV takes place the night of February 8, and Rocket League is taking the anticipation with it. The new Gridiron mode is all about the NFL.

From February 2, fans of the NFL can look forward to a new game mode in Rocket League. In Gridiron, everything revolves around the „bread“ – even heavily adapted rules will be applied.

Field goal or touchdown?
Champions Field has been revamped, including hash marks and the NFL logo on the 50-yard line. But scoring normal goals is not.

Instead, there is a real football as the game device and the distribution of points is changed to fit the theme.

Rules of Gridiron

• It's four against four
• The normal Rocket League ball is exchanged for an American football.
• If you touch it, it will be attached to your roof.
• Whoever touches the ball becomes the ball carrier himself and can pass it to teammates or be stolen by the opponent.
• The ball carrier can jump, but double jumps will cause you to lose the ball. You can also pass the ball by dodging.

Each goal is three or seven points:

Seven points are awarded if the ball is on your roof while you reach the goal, and three points are awarded if the ball is passed in or loose. Own goals are always worth three points.
Demos require Supersonic speed, just like in standard modes.
Stay in the field of play and be careful not to cross the lines or you will have trouble with the ball.

In keeping with the event, there are also three new challenges, which upon successful completion will earn you 20,000 XP, the „Gridiron Guru“ player title, and NFL wheels.

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