Youth Soccer has grown to include tens of millions of American kids over the past few years, along with their so-called soccer moms and soccer dads who take them each weekend to parks across the country to participate in games and tournaments. Soccer is currently America's most popular team sport, mostly due to the large number of young children who are being introduced each year to sports through the game of soccer. Over 1 million high school age children play on their schools soccer teams. Plus, over 5 million young adults play soccer on a regular basis. As these people become parents, their kids will increase the number of “second generation” soccer players.
Techno Soccer Ventures LLC http://www.technosoccer.com is introducing GOAL BLAST, an interactive soccer entertainment game, developed and made popular in Europe, to capitalize on this growing popularity attractive demographic of soccer families. In contrast to most of the world, the U.S. soccer demographic tends to be more affluent, more mobile, more technology and internet savvy than the general public. This makes the soccer public a perfect market base for companies who wish to sponsor soccer and promote their brand images. Until now, a concern that sponsors have had with soccer tournaments has been the diffusion of the attention of the spectators across large parks with multiple playing fields with games occurring simultaneously. GOAL BLAST offers a solution for sponsors concerns about concentration of spectator attention.
GOAL BLAST is an exciting soccer attraction which puts participants and spectators in front of a high tech soccer goal which interacts with the player through real soccer balls and through a large video display. The game challenges players to kick a series of shots into the goal, rewarding points for shots that hit the most strategic locations in the goal and for the shots with the highest speed. The display shows the participants and the spectators an image of the goal, with the targets and their point values. After each successful shot, the display shows a digital recreation of the shot, and the point value and the speed of the player’s efforts. A summary of the results is displayed onscreen and can be printed after the player has shot their balls.
GOAL BLAST offers sponsors who wish to support youth soccer a value-added proposition. First, the physical game area focuses the spectators and players attention into a small space where banners and product placements can be strategically displayed to draw public attention. In addition, the visual display has multimedia features which allow a sponsor’s brand image or logo to become part of the game. This can include visual and sound effects, including flashing short videos, when a player hits the sponsors logo, or when there is a change of players between games. Finally, a sponsor can brand a "take home" certificate of the player’s results which can be used as a coupon or a constant reminder of the player's GOAL BLAST achievement.
GOAL BLAST aims to become a familiar sight at all youth soccer tournaments, as well as local high soccer football and soccer games, professional sporting events, cultural festivals and other outdoor affairs, as well as inside sports training facilities and indoor soccer clubs.
