As sports, particularly football, continues to attract huge investments, Nigeria’s leading business newspaper, BusinessDay Media has launched a new sports website; MatchCentre.ng to satisfy the thirst of yearning sports enthusiasts constantly seeking top-notch and in-depth sports information.
MatchCentre is a football magazine and online football platform that does not only provide data, analysis, and editorial news, but also brings up-to-date stats, live scores, betting tips, predictions covering the relevant events across football leagues across the world.
Described as a one-stop-shop for football lovers, the website is user interface friendly that gives the ability to compare and contrast the statistics of your favourite teams or individual players.
Also catering for the needs of punters to improve their chances of smiling to the bank, the site provides betting tips and predictions regularly with the use of an automated artificial intelligence (AI).
It was learnt that the AI system uses a unique algorithm to present betters with awesome betting signals to help improve their bankroll and successful betting tips.
Speaking at the launch , Frank Aigbogun, Publisher of Business Day Newspapers, said his interest in compelling statistics which now characterise and colour sound sports debates; sparked the thoughts and plans that gave rise to the MatchCentre.
According to him, the site feeds essentially from content provided by Opta (a British sports analytics company based in the United Kingdom) adding that his organisation has rights for the Nigerian and Ghanaian markets.
“MatchCentre.ng will be an open website”, he said. “We have called you here to show you an exciting beginning of a platform, supporting and feeding of sports and soccer. I do hope that at some points down the road we will not just be talking about Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid; we will be talking about Nigerian soccer as well, because there is immense value that is available there,”
He added that site also serves as a veritable source for information and data for analysts, and journalist as it would help the work that they do.
Anthony Nlebem and Desmond Okon
