The gamble of Corriere dello Sport: facts and comments
How does the Corriere dello sport Fun work?
Bet without risking anything. A chimera? No, the new Corriere dello Sport game . The sports newspaper has made available to its users the new “ Corriere dello sport Fun ”, a game where you simulate betting and, if you guess right, you can win coupons to spend on Amazon.
How Corriere dello sport Fun works
Bets, which can be accessed after registration, concern European leagues (Serie A, Premier League, Ligue 1, Liga and Budesliga) and European competitions, such as the Champions League or the UEFA Europa Conference League. You bet through virtual tokens that the game assigns to each player upon registration: the more data you communicate (tax code and telephone number) the more tokens you get. Players are invited to " climb the social status " from "New Entry to Champion through 4 intermediate levels: Promise, Magician, Professional, Expert". For each set of guessed bets you win points that can be converted into prizes "the higher the social status, the more convenient the conversion", reads the instructions.
Is gambling fun?
An apparently harmless activity which, however, could hide some pitfalls. It is no coincidence that the game welcomes the visitor with a message inviting moderation. "We are here not only to play for fun but also to reveal how sports betting really works , separate fun from gambling and increase awareness – reads the site – Sports betting can only be fun in which techniques and suggestions have the sole purpose of extending the playing time for the same expense. If we think of living or earning in the long run with bets, we will be disappointed ”.
In 2020, 2.48 billion in online gambling went up in smoke
The gambling market did not stop even during the pandemic. In 2020 , online gaming reached a total value of 2.48 billion euros , up 43% compared to 1.73 billion in 2019. The data collected by iGB related to Gross Gaming Revenue put slots and online casinos in first place , which totaled over 1.2 billion euros in bets in 2020. In second place are online sports betting, with volumes of 997.75 million euros, ahead of online poker, with volumes of 206.97 million, and Bingo (58.2 million).
The concerns of the experts
The new game has raised the antennas of those who every day are confronted with the damage caused by gambling disorders. "To me this seems to be the latest act of a campaign by the lobbies of betting companies which, since the dignity decree banned gambling advertising and also banned indirect advertising, have done nothing but try to water down the rules of this decree – Remigio Del Grosso , former vice president of the national council of users of the authority for communications guarantees, member of the RAI Scientific Committee and of the Lazio Region GAP Observatory tells Startmag -. Sometimes they have succeeded and sometimes they have not. The old AGCOM, for example, issued somewhat lax guidelines that left broadcasters free to provide information on shares. But when we talk about odds we are talking about betting. Sometimes even Mediaset has done it but to a lesser extent, usually smaller TVs like SportItalia do it ”.
The information sites of the betting companies talk about odds
The most important betting companies have information sites, which bear their name, on which they make information on odds and statistics. “If a betting company creates a site that goes by its name it somehow circumvents the law . And then the advertising of these sites, so-called informative, also appears in stadiums and on televisions – continues Del Grosso -. Now it is true that it is difficult to control advertising because yes, football teams have been banned from putting sponsors on their shirts, advertising on billboards has been banned but it has not been possible to ban return advertising , the one that comes from advertisements for gambling abroad ".
Paola Ferrari and Stefano Fiore in the Corriere dello Sport game
Important names from the Italian sports world such as Paola Ferrari or former footballer Stefano Fiore are also involved in the Corriere dello Sport game. “Now, if you can't do everything you can do something. I don't think it was the publisher of Corriere dello sport who conceived this game, it must have been pushed by someone – adds Del Grosso -. What does the Courier earn? I hope you don't make money from betting company sponsorships . Because it seems to me a classic example of an invitation addressed to the youngest to bet , to let them acquire a behavior that is now free but which can then become paid. Mixing free bets with those made for money is very serious , very dangerous. I don't know who recommended Corriere dello Sport but I hope that this new Agcom, with the president Lasorella who seems enlightened to me, will intervene "
Gambling addiction: a transversal evil
Gambling addiction is a disease that can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender or social class. "I am part of the Regional Gambling Observatory, we experience firsthand the drama of families in which there is someone affected by the gambling disorder – concludes Del Grosso -. We observe psychological, behavioral, and economic consequences because families over-indebted. It is a transversal drama with respect to the age groups but the excesses are found in the extremes, that is, between the youngest and the not so young , the pensioners ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/lazzardo-del-corriere-dello-sport-fatti-e-commenti/ on Fri, 22 Oct 2021 05:57:57 +0000.