The crypto-startup Chiliz (Socios) partners with Lagardère Sports

Lagardère Sports, a company owned by the French group Lagardère, has just announced a strategic partnership with Chiliz, a Maltese blockchain startup that allows sports clubs to easily launch “ fan tokens ".

According to a press release shared with Cryptonaute, maltese Chiliz now collaborates with Lagardère Sports and Entertainment, a company specializing in the management of marketing and audiovisual sports rights, to accelerate the development of Socios.com, its blockchain-based digital token issuance platform dedicated to the sport community.

Thanks to this partnership, Socios.com will benefit from the network of Lagardère Sports, namely athletes, clubs, and sports federations, including in particular 6 football clubs in France and 16 in Germany.

We are proud to have signed this partnership with Socios.com. This agreement rewards our ability to project ourselves into the future and to believe in the development of new technologies such as blockchain and cryptomonnaie, ”Commented Laurent Moretti, CEO France of Lagardère Sports.

The platform Socios.com of Chiliz has already won over several major football clubs in Europe such as Juventus Turin, the Paris Saint Germain, AS Roma and more recently the FC Barcelona.

We have effectively communicated the 2020 objective of the application Socios which is to obtain 50 partners, and I am delighted to benefit from the support of Lagardère Sports to achieve it, "added Alexandre Dreyfus, director of Socios.com and founder of Chiliz.