Most people love sports. Through sports we challenge our limits, keeping us healthier, happier and passionately motivated. Sports boost our self-esteem and bring us together.
Quotes
“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” Michael Jordan
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.” Michael Phelps
The worldwide sports industry is worth more than 600 billion USD, and shows constant growth, but even so athletes face problems funding their training and participation in worldwide competitions, especially
those who are up-and-coming and are just at the beginning of their professional career. Many athletes depend exclusively on institutions that control financing in sports.
It also matters where you are born. If you skate, or play soccer, in The Netherlands, you will have no problem funding your career. But if you are the winner of the Eisenhower Cup in golf, both in the individual competition and with your Dutch Golf team, you don’t even get an invitation to the European
Golf tour. This would be unthinkable for an athlete from the United States of America, Korea, Japan or Great Britain.
Athletes Funding wants to even the odds for the athletes . With the launch of the Athletes Token, wewill enable a wider community to invest in sports, giving both fans and potential investors the tools to directly participate financially in the sports career of our athletes. This provides Athletes with access to the Global Market by creating an international sports crowdfunding platform.
During our first year, we will be focusing on talent in the Golf Sport. We start by selecting athletes from the top 200 players of the World Amateur Golf ranking and from the players ranked between 500 and 1000 on the Official World Golf Ranking. In future, we will also assist other sports disciplines.
For every Sports discipline a non-value token will be issued. The first one will be the Golf Token, which can be used to purchase incentives in our Online Shop, such as Clinics, Meet and Greets, goodies, sports gear (signed by the athletes), or they can buy tickets for golf tournaments in which our
players participate, etc. This token will be available to the early investors and contributors who buy more than 10 Ethereum’s worth of the Athletes Tokens.
Anyone aged 18 or over can become an investor/contributor on The Athletes Funding platform. When opening an account, each investor will be assigned an ERC20 compatible wallet. The Athletes Token will be listed on different exchanges, no more than 14 days after the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).
https://www.athletesfunding.com/athletes-funding-financing-ecosystem
