wild west: new frontier leaving facebook

“When you see kids these days they don’t recognise you from your playing days, they know you from PlayStation,” said Gullit, who won the Ballon D’Or in 1987. “One of the greatest players to ever play the game goes digital,” trumpets the video on the Team Gullit website. Gullit, who confesses he is not as handy with controls as he was on the football pitch, is happy that he lives on in the game, alongside other players from a previous era. “That was the argument about darts but it has become so huge they recognise it as people playing sport.” “Therefore some people think that eSport is not a sport. “We think that sports is about you doing something physical,” he said. Football also started all as a game – now it’s become almost life.”īut the Euro 1988-winning captain said he understood those who complain that eSports is not really a sport. In a promotional video on the Team Gullit website, the Dutchman says of FIFA: “It’s not a game in itself any more, it’s a professional thing. There is a lot more going on but there is a team around you.” “Then you will have somebody to take care of you, you will have to travel and go to tournaments. “There will be sponsorship for the players, which is great, but they can only get better if they play for the big teams.

“I think for these players things will get better, better, better because so many people want to play it,” said Gullit. “Before, they were just playing alone in their bedrooms but now they can do something with it and if they are good enough, get out of their rooms and go to events,” he said.Įnglish player Spencer Ealing, nicknamed “Gorilla”, won last year’s Grand Final in London, pocketing prize money of $200,000. Gullit, who also has young Dutch Formula One sensation Max Verstappen playing unofficially on his team, said he was bowled over by the seven million players who took part in last year’s FIFA Interactive World Cup.

Wild west: new frontier leaving facebook