The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) launched its first series of NFTs called “Drop Genesis” that tells the history of the World Cup in video clips of approximately 30 seconds.
Series 1: Drop Genesis from FIFA+Collect has begun its journey towards the foray of NFTs and as we have reviewed on NFTexpress in an article previous article, it is being driven by the strategic alliance with the Algorand blockchain.
The inaugural Drop contains unforgettable moments from the FIFA World Cup legacy throughout history. The first set of NFTs are worth $4.99 and can be purchased with either credit, debit or prepaid cards, but also allows you to pay with ALGO (Algorand’s native blockchain token), which at the time of this writing is worth $0.36 cents, or roughly one pack is worth about 14 ALGOs.
Each pack contains 3 30-second video NFTs of the most commemorative plays from the history of the different World Cups played so far in both men’s and women’s soccer. In addition, there are different rarities for each of the NFTs that are randomly delivered when opening the packs, including: common, rare, epic and iconic.
Moreover, at the time of writing, almost 50,000 NFTs are minted out of the 532,989 possible issues and you can share your non-fungible tokens on the different social networks.In addition, when you mint the NFT, you will be able to see it in Algorand’s explorer Algorand’s blockchain, since they are designed on this blockchain for the transparency and security of the properties that will be given to the users who acquire the digital assets.
Turning to the rarities of the NFTs, each common non-fungible token has a total of 63,168 pieces. The rare ones have 29,892 possible. The epics will be 12,126 and the iconic ones will only have 282 replicas.
This will generate the scarcity and future valuation of these assets that can be exchanged on the secondary market from October 9 when it will be unlocked on the FIFA+Collect homepage.
In this first Drop Genesis you can find NFTs of outstanding plays such as:
Goal Ronaldo Nazzario’s goal against Germany in the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup.
Tremendous Goal by Carli Lloyd from midfield in the 2015 World Cup final against Japan, played in Canada.
Goal Roger Milla’s goal for Cameroon against Colombia at the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Save by England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford in the last minute against Colombia at Russia 2018.
Goal by Marta, one of the best players of all time, in the 2007 World Cup against the United States.
Spectacular save by Iker Casilla, the Spanish goalkeeper, who saved Robben’s goal in the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa against the Netherlands.
Great free kick great free kick by Cristiano Ronaldo playing for Portugal against Spain in the last World Cup played in Russia 2018.
Tremendous save by Nigerian goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa against none other than Lionel Messi.
These are just some of the highlights, but there are plenty of players of both genders that appear in the first series of NFTs launched by FIFA and Algorand to commemorate the history of World Cups, which will surely have more Drops in the future to continue enjoying the best plays over time.
If you are a soccer fan, you will surely be very interested in these new NFTs! At NFTexpress we will keep you up to date with all the news of this and the most important NFT collections that will be released in this industry that is growing in adoption and usefulness every day.
Written by Rodrigo Catalan (TW: @RodrigoCatalanB) for NFT Express.