Footbo

Footbo or Footbo.com is an international social networking website designed to encourage interaction between football (soccer) fans world-wide, and was co-founded by football analyst and journalist Rafi Honigstein, together with his brother Mani Honigstein. It’s headquartered in London, England.The company received funding from Pitango Venture Capital.

The website is available in English, German and Spanish, and the Footbo community enables users to access team and player profiles, blogs of football personalities and other users, as well as make game predictions.

Footbo’s Beta site was launched in May 2008 and “focuses on offering an information and interaction hub for everyday football fans.” It's launch coincided with Euro 2008 which began in June. The site provides football-related content, including tens of thousands of team and player profiles, which is user-generated.

Users build their own profile page where they can identify which teams and players they support, can create groups and add media. General features include live feeds, line-ups, game schedules and tables from about 70 leagues around the world, and a predictions section in which users can compete against each other by predicting the final scores of games. Users can grade the performances of players at the end of each game, and contribute to electing the community’s “Top 11″ of each league or round. All information regarding teams and players is editable by the users. Following Footbo's launch, Argentine football magazine El Gráfico suggested 10 reasons for signing up to Footbo.

Football analysts Guillem Balague and Gabriele Marcotti contribute to the site in the form of blogs and, Arsenal and Cameroonian player Alexandre Song began posting blogs on Footbo, whilst representing Cameroon in the Olympics, as a means to interact and communicate with football fans.

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