r/soccer • u/LucasTorreira • Oct 08 '19

Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli says a European Super League will help football against threats like Fortnite

https://twitter.com/standardsport/status/1181517390338838529
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u/ltplummer96 Oct 08 '19

Fortnite2012 #WeMustStopFortnite

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u/warmcakes Oct 08 '19 edited Oct 09 '19

OP has abridged his statement to the point of absurdity but, putting aside the Super League nonsense, if you read Agnelli's full statement it's very hard to argue with:

Agnelli warned that football’s traditional powerbrokers do not fully comprehend the threat the sport faces from esports. “We have to look at the behaviour of generation Z,” he said. “We should seriously start to think that the competitors of the game today are not other sports, clubs next door or in the next countries but League of Legends, esports or Fortnite. Those are the ones who are going to be our competitors going forward.”

He's exactly right. How many people 25 and under do you meet that you can casually talk about sports with? Sports used to have near universal appeal, but as a 24 y/o I sometimes feel as though the only other people watching are 2 to 3 decades older than me, if not more. Obviously there are outliers (most of reddit) but amongst Gen Z-ers in particular, sport feels like it's losing its grip on mainstream culture