Barcelona (EFE) the victory of El Barrio, who beat Anniquiladores 3-0 in the final.
The expectation generated was verified from the beginning of a day in which two semifinals and the final were played. The presidents of the four participating teams arrived at the Barcelona stadium by helicopter and Neymar starred in a cameo in a video distributed by the Kings League.
In the final, in the box were the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonés, together with the president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta, and the sports councilor of the Barcelona city council, David Escudé.
To get an idea of the success of the competition, here’s a piece of information: the 92,522 paying viewers who attended the matches are two hundred fewer than those who watched the last LaLiga clásico live (95,745 on March 19). The maximum capacity of the facility is currently 95,877.
Performances before the final
But not everything was football. Before the final between El Barrio and Aniquiladores, the Argentine singers Tiago Pzk and Laly Expósito performed, while the ‘freestylers’ Chuty, Gazir, Skone and Bnet staged a ‘battle of cocks’.
Also at the event, a Guinness record for spectators with masks in a stadium was broken, which was held by an event in the Philippines, which drew 30,000 spectators, today there were more than 92,000.
The Kings League is a 7-a-side football competition created by Kosmos, Gerard Piqué’s company, and which is broadcast entirely by streaming (Twitch, tik tok and YouTube).
In the League, chaired by Piqué, teams of well-known Twitch streamers participate, among which Ibai Llanos stands out. It is a competition with particular rules and that especially attracts young people. In fact, many twenty-somethings and a large family audience were seen in the stands of the Barça stadium.
In the final, El Barrio, the team of ‘streamer’ Adri Contreras had no rival and beat Anniquiladores 3-0 to become the first Kings League champion.
Until tonight, the maximum audience for the competition had taken place at the end of February, with the presence of Ronaldinho, who managed to gather 2,120,962 viewers. Today the Kings League brought together a few more.