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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Football fanatics in Lesotho are in for a treat after the Lesotho Football Association announced a partnership with FIFA through a world-class digital platform, FIFA+, which will provide free live games of the Lesotho elite league.<\/p>\n

The streaming service launched last year as part of FIFA\u2019s plan to provide coverage of underserved competitions to new audiences around the world and capture more fan date.<\/p>\n

FIFA+ streamed the Qatar World Cup in Brazil free and FIFA revealed after the tournament that three times more local fans used digital platforms to consume the World Cup compared to 2018, with streams gaining more than 40 million unique viewers throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n

FIFA+ will provide access to live football matches, from every corner of the world\u2019s interactive games, news, tournament information, ground-breaking, unrivalled video content delivering truly global storytelling around the men\u2019s and women\u2019s games and much more.<\/p>\n

FIFA is the first sports federation ever to offer such extensive streaming and content experience to its fans. FIFA has targeted to stream the equivalent of 40 000 live games per year from 100 member associations across all six confederations, including 11 000 women\u2019s football matches.<\/p>\n

The FIFA+ is expected to kick-off in less than a month in Lesotho and with the roll-out that is fully operational scheduled for the start of the 2023\/2024 season.<\/p>\n

FIFA+ project has been welcomed by the LeFA Secretary General, Mokhosi Mohapi, stating that the project is massive for the transformation of football in the Kingdom of Lesotho.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FIFA+ project will help football in Lesotho to get the much-wanted publicity,\u201d Mohapi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor players, the platform will provide the whole world their footage such that we are likely to see more Basotho players moving onto foreign leagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecondly, the local fans can access matches that are played at the same time while watching their own favourite teams, and or later after their matches are played already.<\/p>\n

\u201d Mohapi said the streaming services will also give football technicians such as video analysts along with coaches a chance to study their opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clubs will also benefit in terms of getting footage to be able to analyse their opponents and factor that same analysis in their training sessions,\u201d the LeFA Secretary General stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver and above the technical benefits, if our streamed matches get enough visits or downloads, the local clubs might earn revenue which I\u2019m sure it is well needed following the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen dwindling returns across the population,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFIFA+ represents the next step in our vision to make football truly global and inclusive, and it underpins FIFA\u2019s core mission to expand and develop football globally,\u201d said FIFA President Gianni Infantino in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project represents a cultural shift in the way different types of football fans want to connect with and explore global games and has been a fundamental part of my vision 2020-2023. It will accelerate the democratisation of football and we are delighted to share it with the fans.<\/p>\n

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