Do you know “Be Sport”? It is a digital and social platform, an application that connects sports actors. This Friday, the latter and the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) joined forces for “a long-term cooperation agreement for the development of innovative solutions at the service of all clubs and basketball players”, specifies the joint press release. “Thanks to Be Sport’s high-performance and proven technology and its unique functionalities, each practitioner, fan or friend of basketball, will be able to meet and share their best moments as well as their results and many other contents”, rejoices Jean-Pierre Siutat. , the president of the FFBB.
Concretely, what is the use of this association between a digital application and one of the most important French sports federations with its 680,000 players and licensees? “It offers the possibility of having all of basketball in France in the palm of your hand, notes Mathieu Chamiot, innovation officer for the president of the FFBB. In each club – and of course without any obligation on their part – a referent will be chosen and each team manager, after a few very simple manipulations, will be able to give all the news live from his team. And we are talking about all the teams in all the clubs: from the National 1 to the U5s in the smallest village in France. »
Everything is free
A small detail that is important: all this is perfectly free, for clubs as for licensees. All you have to do is download the app, which is also free, identify yourself and presto! Let’s go. Older generations probably remember when you had to go to the nearest gymnasium to read on the door the convocations for the matches, the training schedules, the possible postponements. Woe if a leader forgot to post them. All you have to do is plug in the app to find out everything. In the same vein, invitations to general meetings or end-of-season parties can go through this social network.
Obviously, all this will really work when training and matches have become the daily life of French basketball players. In other words, when the Covid finally leaves us alone. “With Be Sport, continues Mathieu Chamiot, we will have everything in hand. Match schedules, invitations. Parents who cannot cheer on them will be able to follow the result of their child’s match live, regardless of age, gender and level. »
Your child next to Rudy Gobert
With a bit of technology and practice, a U15 derby in the Paris region will be able to enjoy a live performance like an NBA match. Everything is possible. Little icing on the cake, Be Sport also offers the news of the greatest champions and not only in basketball. It is not impossible that Rudy Gobert’s action of the night will one day end up right next to the three-point basket of a Sunday morning player in Auvergne.
The actions of the match of the youngest of this Brittany club may be filmed by a parent or a supporter. “This viewer will be able to post the video on the app., anticipates the federal official. All this must create a link in the big family of basketball. This is what we want and with the crisis we are going through, we need it even more. “All the life of the clubs of France and Navarre can now fit in a phone.
“Be Sport will make it possible, thanks to its cutting-edge technology, to connect all French basketball players within the same network, helping them to enrich all their sporting lives: whether they are practitioners, fans, parents, coaches, managers of clubs… This is what we have already deployed successfully with many clubs in many disciplines. The potential with basketball – collective, mixed, Olympic, urban and inclusive sport – is immense”, welcomes Edouard Donnelly, the general manager of Be Sport in a press release.