Interview with Fabio Neri and Paolo Torpia respectively Sporteleon’s CEO and Marketing Manager
November 8, 2021
Interview with Fabio Neri and Paolo Torpia respectively Sporteleon’s CEO and Marketing Manager, the app to share and live the sport through 360-degrees.
Sport by its nature has always had the ability to unite people, overcome all kinds of barriers: social, cultural and economic. For this reason it is a heritage not only to be defended but to be conveyed as much as possible, by any means.
Sporteleon adopts this concept and makes available to all sports-Mates an app capable not only to create union and community but also to make discover its users new promotions and offers of the best Italian sports centers, thus facilitating access to sport.
What Sporteleon is?
Sporteleon is an application through which sports fans can meet new people, practice their own favorite sport, follow their favorite sports facilities, share their experience with others, get offers and promotions. But it is also a “place” where sports centers can be known by registered users and create new fanbases. How does it work?
How does it work for sports fans?
Download the app and create your own profile: enter your favorite sports and the level of preparation you have. In this way, through the app you can be found by other fans of your sport who have the same level of preparation and start organizing exciting games. Of course, you can start looking for new people to play and have fun with.
How does it work for sports clubs?
If you have a sports club or a gym, Sporteleon is the right opportunity to introduce you. Simply register your facility in the app as a WORKER profile and insert photos, data, address and opening times to make your profile page available to the entire community.
You can also create events, offers, coupons and free trials for all sports-Mates on the platform. Sporteleon redesigns the concept of sharing sport with an innovative application but at the same time simple, intuitive and direct. Get to know sports fans like you and if you are a club, show off!
To learn more about Sporteleon, read the interview with the Founder of the app.
Hello Fabio and hello Paolo, nice to meet you and thank you for the time you are dedicating to us. Sporteleon: tell us this beautiful story.
Nice Germana is in fact a long history, of those that are born as a legend, but those that with time and dedication become reality. SPORTELEON since the dawn born to be a safe haven, a sort of light in the storm of solitude that life often gives us. The desire to play sports should not be stifled by loneliness and Sporteleon erases this bad thought. From the Virtual to the Real.
How and when was the idea of Sporteleon born? Why this name?
The idea comes from personal experiences that were never being met by any commercial applications. The idea was to associate their amateur or competitive sports passion to the concept of aggregation. The idea of getting up in the morning, facing a working day with the idea of being able to open an application and find new companions or new courses, promotions or events of their territory on a screen of a phone is in our opinion innovative.
Groundbreaking in terms of promotion of the territory and as regards the sociability of the user subscribed to SPORTELEON. The charming name comes from the union of the words SPORT AND CHAMELEON, an animal that represents the shift similar to the person who in our reality changes sport or companion in practicing it . The logo is a chameleon rolled on itself.
How long did it take to create the project?
The project was born a long time ago from an evening among friends where everyone had this need to realize a dream. A desire to find in a short time sporting practices to do with enthusiasts or in solitude and to try a new course offered by a gym or by a professional in the sector. It took almost 5 years to define the graphics, develop the App through various trials to achieve functionality that SPORTELEON now uses.
Who is Sporteleon targeting? How is the market responding?
SPORTELEON is everyone’s. There is no person who does not need to open it. Of course the basic need is a sporting desire to satisfy, the desire to find companions of adventure or the need to find that course that we are always looking for or that promotion that meets our expectations. Our app has been launched in the main stores Google and Apple on September 1, 2021 and the market is responding great.
We are currently testing in the territory known by Us to see the feedback and suggestions, but we have to say that the opinions are very positive and we believe we will expand on the national territory soon.
How important is it to focus on sports to get out of a period like this? And how important is sport to bring human beings together?
SPORTELEON must give a push to the people who due to the pandemic have remained involved and have closed themself in a solitary and sedentary state.A boost to regain the desire and the will to practice sports passion. It must involve all those activities that, because of the pandemic stop, have to get back in the game and want to do it offering useful and innovative services. It gives all those professional figures the perfect visibility depending on the sports target that is present on the App.
How did you launch your project? Did you exploted crowdfunding campaigns?
The SPORTELEON project has just been released and the success found has led to important sponsorship contracts that will be realized , but at the moment they are under consideration to be evaluated and eventually signed. No crowdfunding campaign has been undertaken, but in the near future we might consider this hypothesis that is not currently planned.
Curiosities: do you also use Sporteleon to organize your matches?
My partner and I are both sportsmen and we use SPORTELEON for our sports raids, who for the Trail running, who for walks or family rides. From the moment we can upload our events, the people with whom we practice our passions have increased and we had the pleasure of meeting new people that we could never have met without the app.
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