Monday, February 7, 2011

Virtual real football coach

This is like football games where the player can choose the tactics, alignment, etc., but with one big difference: here the players are not digital pipe dreams but real people, a team of flesh and bone that is left skin in the field. Www. tkgoal. com makes the dream of many to be coaching a football team.

The team that crosses the boundaries between analog and digital world called TS'UH KUH Foundation (which is the phonetic spelling of the name that had football in China) and is established in Oviedo, but his desire to be "a team of world. " "We have players from several countries: Senegal, Montenegro, Colombia ...", explains Javier Morales, the architect of this whole affair," and we intend to participate e-managers around the world.

There is a local team. " Although the team has a real coach, Chus Naves, which deals with physical training and rated the players in their personal files (and guidance to other coaches) are the e-managers who week after week, choose the alignment strategies (by vote) and continue the training and video games through the web.

Each e-manager has some everyday tasks on web sites, all related to the team and earn points that can lead to being an outstanding coach, the best of the week. There is even the figure of the insider, who plays a reporter infiltrated the team and report regularly to the e-managers of what is happening in the locker room.

To participate (for the moment there are 300 e-managers registered in several countries) there is more to register on the web for free. The project began three years ago: "I do not remember the exact moment that I got the idea, but it was probably inspired by games and by the collaborative spirit of Wikipedia," says Morales.

Through the London Business School computer contacted with three Indians and a Finnish collaborator (also in this very international) to develop the website, and with the cooperation of the Caja Rural de Asturias Foundation got the project came to Spain. This season has started at the bottom.

"We created a new team for this initiative, instead of using an existing one, because we believe that a club must have its own history, and that we will do ourselves from scratch. We want a team for people, encouraging intercultural marriage between people around the world, that is away from the commercialization of sport, "says Morales.

At the moment the tkgoal. com plays in the Asturian regional second division. Will this ciberequipo to hobnob with the big guys? "Not to sound idealistic, but anything can happen. Give us 10 years."

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