NEWS Opta World Cup Apps Storm the Charts
10th June 2010
As the World Cup build up reaches fever pitch, football fans are turning to Opta powered iPhone apps to keep up with all of the excitement from South Africa.
Two separate apps, both using Opta data, are currently flying high in the iTunes app store charts.
Opta data is ideal for use on the iPhone, iPad, Android and mobile internet platforms and combines real-time scores and statistics with positional and analytical data.
Full details of the apps are as follows:
South Africa Live, Powered by Opta
Developed by BrightAI
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id372379138?mt=8
ALSO NOW AVAILABLE ON ANDROID - http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/sports/world-cup-2010-powered-by-opta_hwns.html
‘The South Africa Live – powered by Opta’ Appliation provides you with the latest fixtures, results, stats, news, match chat, match commentary, team information and more, in this statistically rich mobile guide for the World Cup 2010.
The backbone of this Application is driven by Opta sports statistic data. Since 1996 Opta have been collecting, compiling, databasing and supplying sports data. Using the biggest and best database of sports information on the planet, Opta has been the supplier for TV Broadcasting such as Sky Sports, through to powering data feeds for the most popular sports websites around. So there is no better Application to provide you the latest statistics from this year’s South Africa World Cup tournament.
South Africa Live – powered by Opta
Features:
- Push Notifications of World Cup events
- Detailed Homepage listing the latest results, upcoming matches and the latest news from the World Cup.
- Follow the latest World Cup news via Twitter, Facebook and various external news sources
- Fixture & Results overview offers an ‘at a glance’ list of played and upcoming matches
- Detailed match text commentary of each game
- Detailed statistics for each match
- Team Line-ups for each match
- Past history preview comparisons for each fixture
- Chat with like-minded fans in the match chat forum (each match and general chat)
- Group stage Information
- Country squad lists for each team taking part in the tournament
- Individual player statistics for each player in the tournament
- Live area for live matches currently being played, featuring text commentary, in-game stats, line-ups, history and chat
- Up-to-date statistics for players, team and for the whole tournament, featuring top goals scored, most red and yellow cards and goal assists for the whole tournament
- Join in with our regular polls throughout the tournament there will be asking you to cast your vote on a number of hot topics from the World Cup
- Gallery. View photos from the World Cup, set them as wallpapers for your mobile device
- Videos from the World Cup. Stream videos of the World Cup experience
- History of the World Cup allows you to swat up on the past World Cup events and each tournament’s statistics
Total Football 2010
Developed by Colm McMullan
www.totalfootball2010.com
The iPhone and iPod touch app graphically displays a huge range of match events including every pass, shot, tackle, clearance and foul for all 64 games in South Africa this summer.
At the touch of a button, fans can compare players' performances against each other and see which player's are having greatest influence on the game, Total Football 2010 enables fans to analyse a match from a completely new perspective.
As described by 'joolsLondon' in his App Store review: "Just a fabulous app. A staggering amount of data, but presented with beautiful, clear visualisations. No longer do you have to put up with the TV pundits droning on with the same old dull comments, this app lets you decide for yourself what is happening in a game." At time of writing, 100% of reviewers have given it a 5* rating.
Best of all, the app includes Facebook and Twitter integration enabling users to share images and insights generated in the app across their social networks.
Total Football's developer, Colm McMullan said, "This is the first World Cup of the digital age. Facebook and Twitter only launched after the 2006 tournament and the iPhone wasn't announced until 2007.
Total Football 2010 is the ultimate app for this time, making use of these incredibly popular services to enrich football fan's experience of the tournament. By opening up access to this level of detail live during every game, fans won't have to wait on the cherry picked facts and stats they get on TV and they'll have facts and stats to back up their football arguments with their mates!"
The app comes bundled with the final 8 games of the 2006 World Cup for users to explore. When the 2010 tournament kicks off on June 11th, information for all match events (including the innovative player influence infographic) will be available live throughout every game.
http://www.optasports.com/sports/football/internet-and-mobile/mobile-applications.html
