Southampton FC India Fan Club Members Get VR Matchday Experience From Sportsbet.io Fund - Newswire

Press Release - Nov 16, 2022 12:40 EST

LONDON, November 16, 2022 (Newswire.com) - Dedicated Southampton ace fans successful countries crossed the satellite enjoyed a first-of-its-kind virtual world matchday acquisition during the Saints' fixture against Liverpool connected the 12th of November, acknowledgment to the Crypto Fan Fund from Southampton's Main Club Partner Sportsbet.io.

Pioneering a New Matchday Experience with VR

Using Pico virtual world headsets, fans from the Southampton India instrumentality nine were immersed successful an authentic Southampton pre-match acquisition astatine the Saints Social Club - the brand-new authoritative Southampton instrumentality pub astatine The Northam, which opened successful precocious August. Fan pubs are a cardinal portion of British shot culture, and the VR acquisition was designed to let Southampton fans to acquisition that atmosphere, wherever they are successful the world.

The VR acquisition fto the Southampton India fans beryllium a fly-on-the-wall during the opening time of the Saints Social Club and included listening successful to an informal 'pub chat' with Southampton legends Nigel Adkins and Franny Benali, arsenic good arsenic a unrecorded show from the Saints Brass band.

Speaking astir the experience, Southampton India subordinate Srijan Pathak said: "Trying the headsets was perfectly incredible, it truly felt similar we were determination successful the Club! We each grew up watching Southampton and the Premier League connected our TVs, but ne'er truly felt portion of it, truthful to beryllium capable to decently immerse yourself successful the ambiance and consciousness what it's truly similar to beryllium successful a pub with different fans up of the match, it helped america consciousness connected to the nine successful a mode that we conscionable haven't before. We'll decidedly beryllium utilizing it earlier the different matches we ticker to get ourselves pumped earlier kick-off!"

The Crypto Fan Fund

The instauration of the Saints Social Club and the VR acquisition was made imaginable by the Crypto Fan Fund. At the commencement of the 2021/22 season, Sportsbet.io donated 2 Bitcoins to Southampton fans, to beryllium utilized for a fan-led initiative. The nine and Sportsbet.io worked with the starring supporters' group, Saints Voice, to determine however the donation would beryllium spent, with fans voting successful March to crook the Northam Social Club - an iconic Southampton pub conscionable a stone's propulsion from St. Mary's Stadium - into the eventual Southampton FC instrumentality bar.

Helen Edwards, Head of Responsible Gambling astatine Sportsbet.io said: "It's been a privilege to enactment with Saints Voice, Southampton India, and the Southampton fans passim this process, and we're truthful excited to spot the Saints Social Club travel to fruition this summer. Through the Crypto Fan Fund, we wanted to amusement however crypto tin beryllium utilized to genuinely enactment fans and assistance them present the initiatives that they privation to see, and with the assistance of Southampton FC and Saints Voice we're delighted to person been capable to bash precisely that."

Sarah Batters, Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Southampton FC, said: "It's been superb to enactment successful adjacent collaboration with the representatives of our Saints Voice sheet and to find retired what truly matters to them successful bid to bring the champion matchday experiences for our fans, some astatine location and crossed the globe. The caller Saints Social Club volition supply a fantastic accidental to bring our fans together, and we're delighted that we're capable to see our unthinkable supporters successful India arsenic well."

The donation consolidates Sportsbet.io's ongoing committedness arsenic the main nine sponsor of Southampton Football Club and arsenic a person successful the crypto community. The inaugural is portion of Sportsbet.io's 'Believe the Hype' campaign, encouraging Saints to judge the hype astir their nine and astir cryptocurrency.

The Saints Road Back to The Prem

The Saints were founding members of the Premier League successful 1992/1993 and were ever-present until their relegation astatine the extremity of the 2004/2005 season. After falling connected troubled times, which included a further relegation to League 1, they returned to the Premier League for the 2012/2013 play and haven't looked backmost since. 

They person enjoyed top-half finishes successful caller years, including a sixth-place decorativeness successful the 2015/2016 play which secured Europa League football. In 2016/2017, they reached the last of the League Cup but narrowly missed retired connected silverware aft a 3-2 decision by Manchester United. They ended the 2019/2020 play with a seven-game unbeaten streak to decorativeness 11th with a tally of 52 points.

About Sportsbet.io

Founded successful 2016 arsenic portion of the Yolo Group, Sportsbet.io is simply a starring bitcoin-led sportsbook operator. Sportsbet.io has an expansive, prime betting merchandise crossed each large sports and eSports, offering much than 350,000 pre-match events per year, arsenic good arsenic broad in-play contented and a divers scope of some crypto and fiat currencies. 

It besides provides innovative markets specified arsenic subordinate prop bets for soccer, American football, and basketball, and is the lone bitcoin-led sportsbook to supply unrecorded streaming crossed each large sports. Sportsbet.io prides itself connected its unafraid and trustworthy betting service, with withdrawal times of astir 1.5 minutes amongst the fastest successful the industry.

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