Introducing Andre Gray's Football Academy

Introduction

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Football is the most popular sport in the entire world and with good reason, understanding its rules (at least the basic ones) is something that even a small child can manage to do without many complications, and the explosion of happiness everyone can see in the fans when their favorite team scores is very easy to spread even to people who don’t know much about football, I bet we all know people who despite not being a football fan, is always there to watch important matches like the ones from the World Cup, and always celebrate when their country scores a goal, I think it is fair to say that football’s popularity is related to the passion people feel when playing or when watching this particular sport.

But football, just like any other sport, can also be seen as an activity to encourage kids (and all sort of people) to dedicate their time into something healthy instead of doing destructive or dangerous activities, this is why it is important to always have available spaces for everyone to have fun playing sports whenever they have some free time to do so. Besides, there are a lot of examples of professional players that were born in extreme poverty, and were able to achieve prosperity by becoming a professional, in football we have a lot of examples like this, especially with players from Brazil.

However, not everyone has access to a proper place designed to learn and play sports, much less to coaches that can teach them how to do it properly, and there is always the problem especially in poor countries regarding the purchase of important items like the proper shoes to play the sport, the ball, among many other things.

Right now, thanks to blockchain technology, new solutions are already developed to sort of bypass the money problems, and through the use of digital platforms, provide important tips to players that help them in improving their skills, and even better, now it is also possible to offer monetary rewards for those capable of showing real effort and document the results of their training with the online community.

When it comes to football, a project like this already exists, it is running on the Steem blockchain and its name is “Andre Gray Football Academy”.

What is Andre Gray Football Academy all about?

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This is the first online football academy to provide rewards to its students by leveraging the Steem blockchain and allocating tokens from the reward pool to people posting videos of their training while following the lessons available on the academy’s website. The goal is to encourage people to play football in any place available for them, it doesn’t have to be a proper football field, and by proving their efforts through the use of a video where they follow the instructions of any of the lessons, they can improve their football skills, and also receive a monetary reward for doing so.

There are a lot of people who have already uploaded their football videos, the best ones can be seen by visiting the academy’s hall of fame.

The academy was named as Andre Gray, because that is the name of the professional football player behind the creation of this project, he is the one who provides the tips about how to successfully complete each of the available lessons, and he even does the lessons himself in each of the corresponding explanatory videos.

If you have any doubt regarding the project, feel free to check its FAQ’s section where more information is provided for anyone interested in becoming a member of the academy.

Conclusion

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The Steem blockchain and Andre Gray (a professional football player currently playing for Watford from the English Premier League), have joined forces and created the first blockchain based football academy where every person from anywhere on the world can become a member, participate in the lessons, and if they decide to share their work and upload their own videos completing any of the lessons, they can also be rewarded through the Steem blockchain.

This is something that wasn’t possible until just a few years ago, but now it is something very real, and it provides new opportunities for anyone interested in receiving free lessons from a real PRO, as well as new chances when it comes to earning crypto tokens.

I invite @joedukeg, @jonsnow1983, @costanza, @lawlees, and @nanzo-scoop to check this!