Goal.com

Goal.com
URL Goal.com
Slogan Score to Live
Commercial? Yes
Registration 123.44.123.2
Available language(s) Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Hindi
Owner Gianluigi Longinotti-Buitoni
Launched 12 March 2001
Alexa rank 373 (November 2011)[1]
Current status Active

Goal.com, founded in 2004[2] by Chicco Merighi and former Ferrari Maserati and Ralph Lauren President and CEO Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni, is a website for international football news. Goal.com represents the largest football community in the world, with 22 language versions, covering over 200 countries. Goal.com provides users with the breaking news, live scores, match previews, editorials, exclusives, and latest club news through its interactive web site and community forums.[3]

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Features

Match coverage

Goal.com provides live commentary, reports, reactions, and player ratings for the majority of Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A matches, as well as the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and several other international fixtures. Users have the chance to vote for their "top" and "flop" players of the game.[4]

Community

The Goal.com Community was an online community featuring in six languages. The community was a series of forums and threads where users would discuss footballing issues, but the forums have since been disabled. The most common forums were the English, Spanish, and Italian forums.[5] Members of the forum have since relocated to Goal-Legacy.[6]

Goal.com UK

In September 2009, Goal.com launched Goal.com UK specialising in news from English football exclusively. In November 2010, Goal.com began a partnership with the Bundesliga[7] to look closer at football in Germany and the business model behind a majority of its clubs.

2010 Fifa World Cup

During the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Goal.com had over 20 writers at the tournament. Traffic to Goal.com increased by 143% between April and June 2010 making it the 16th largest sport website according to comScore.[8]

Goal.com Meets Series

In early 2010, Goal.com launched a video interviews series, Goal.com Meets. Led by Goal.com Founder and President Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni, the series included interviews with high profile figures from the game including then AFC President Mohammed bin Hammam,[9] Bundesliga CEO Christian Seifert[10] and then Barcelona FC President Joan Laporta.[11]

Goal.com 50

Every year Goal.com searches the 50 best players of the last season. According to Goal.com these are the best players of the last years:

Year Player Club
2007/08 Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United
2008/09 Lionel Messi Barcelona
2009/10 Wesley Sneijder Inter Milan
2010/11 Lionel Messi Barcelona

References

  1. ^ "Goal.com Site Info - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Amazon.com. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/goal.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011. 
  2. ^ Weihe, Christiane (30 June 2004). "Halbzeit? Maus her!". Berliner Zeitung. http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2004/0630/medien/0031/index.html. Retrieved 16 July 2008. 
  3. ^ "Blinkx Scores a Goal". Search Engine Journal. 15 October 2007. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/blinkx-scores-a-goal/5822/. Retrieved 16 July 2008. 
  4. ^ Live Commentary on Goal.com
  5. ^ Goal.com Community
  6. ^ "Goal-Legacy". Goallegacy.forumotion.com. http://www.goallegacy.forumotion.com/. Retrieved 2011-11-30. 
  7. ^ "Bundesliga - official website". Bundesliga.de. http://www.bundesliga.de/en/index.php. Retrieved 2011-11-30. 
  8. ^ "comScore, Inc. - Measuring the Digital World". Comscore.com. 2011-11-02. http://www.comscore.com/. Retrieved 2011-11-30. 
  9. ^ "Goal.com Meets... AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam". Goal.com. 23 April 2010. http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exclusive/2010/04/23/1890270/goalcom-meets-afc-president-mohamed-bin-hammam. 
  10. ^ "Goal.com Meets… Christian Seifert". Goal.com. 11 July 2010. http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/87/germany/2010/07/11/2019689/goalcom-meets-christian-seifert. 
  11. ^ "Goal.com Meets… Joan Laporta". Goal.com. 5 May 2010. http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exclusive/2010/05/05/1909679/goalcom-meets-joan-laporta. 

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