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Ibai signs Ronaldinho for Twitch soccer league team

Another star joins Kings League

Marco Wutz

Ibai signs Ronaldinho for Twitch soccer league team
Ibai signs Ronaldinho for Twitch soccer league team /

Usually it’s just esports that comes to mind when one thinks of competitions broadcasted on streaming service Twitch, but the Spanish Kings League is proving to be a popular exception. Kings League is a seven-a-side soccer league, which means that instead of eleven players, each team fields seven athletes per match. There are also a bunch of special rules to spice things up, such as unlimited substitutions, penalty shootouts, and more.

The league, which has been running since January 2023, has been a great success with over a million people regularly watching the matches, which are played out offline in Barcelona. A dozen teams, all headed by internet stars or notable soccer personalities, take part.

Ibai and Ronaldinho.
Ibai and his newest recruit, legendary soccer player Ronaldinho / Ibai on Twitter

Thanks to one of the special rules, which states that teams can invite a guest players for each match, a bunch of huge soccer stars have already appeared in the competition: Sergio Agüero, who is also the chairman of the Kunisports team, took to the field in person, as did Iker Casillas, who is the chairman of 1K FC.

Ibai Llanos, who is among the biggest Twitch streamers in the world, has now announced that he was able to sign Ronaldinho, a former world champion and Ballon d’Or winner, for his own Porcinos FC.

TheGrefg is another massive Twitch star who runs a team in the league, which is called Saiyans FC. Both Saiyans and Porcinos are currently at the top of the standings, each having won six of their seven matches so far, proving that the two video game stars have a good hand at picking their players.

The next day of matches is scheduled for February 26, 2023, and could see Ronaldinho’s debut.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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