MUMBAI: Sports technology firm Deltatre has announced an extension to its long-term relationship with football‘s governing body Fifa following the launch of a revamped Fifa.com.
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Deltatre has been providing the competition results and TV graphics services for all Fifa events since the Fifa World Cup in 2002. |
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The new Fifa.com is produced by the Fifa new media department with the support of Deltatre and its partners NTT Europe Online and Entriq. The new contract, which spans the period 2007-2011, forms the cornerstone of Fifa‘s ambitious new media strategy to create the most comprehensive global football destination on the web by offering one single destination website to all football fans and enhance the user experience making Fifa.com web 2.0 enabled. |
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Fifa‘s New Media department head Charles-Henry Contamine says, "Fifa is very pleased to be working with deltatre on this ambitious and challenging new project. The new Fifa.com project is an important piece of Fifa‘s long-term new media strategy and is a big step forward as we bring the Fifa World Cup website under the umbrella of Fifa.com. "With deltatre, we feel we have a highly reliable service provider that brings the necessary commitment, experience, creativity and spirit to lay the foundation for the successful realisation of our goals" . Deltatre CEO Giampiero Rinaudo says, "We are thrilled to extend our close and long-term relationship with Fifa to this new exciting project. Together with our partners, NTT Europe Online and Entriq, we look forward to the challenges over the next four years, which will culminate in the delivery of the event website for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa." |
