World’s First Soccer Club AZ Alkmaar Will Get Paid In Bitcoin

One of the top soccer club team Alkmaar announced their partnership with a Cryptocurrency exchange that will help teams to get paid in Bitcoin. 

A top level successful club of Soccer club in the Netherlands, AZ Alkmaar, announced their partnership with a Cryptocurrency Exchange named Bitcoin Meester. 

The local crypto provider will help this partnership to promote the club.

And also club teams clearly stated that they will hold their Bitcoin in their balance sheet.

Az Alkmaar will be the first club of Dutch to move in such a type of Cryptocurrency adoption idea at such Internacional level.

Michael Koster, managing director of The club, Explained about this partnership and why they did this partnership.

“The cryptocurrency market is booming, with the exponential growth of users in recent years. That is appealing, but it is precisely in a new market that some direction is important. Not everyone is already familiar with cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin Meester is able to responsibly guide new users in this world.”

Mitchell Zandwijken, who is CEO of Bitcoin Meester Exchange, stated why this partnership with Soccer club will play an important role in future.

Mitchell said that sports games are in existence at a huge level because of fans and supporters.

Soccer games in Dutch region have a huge fan base and support from people.

So through this partnership, all the people who have interest in sports games will know about virtual currencies. And they will try to understand in a perfect way, if teams and clubs will promote it.

The Kaaskoppen team ranked 3 in last year’s performance.

AFAS Stadium, home of AZ Alkmaar, was the place where the club and Bitcoin Meester signed the contract of partnership.

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