MOJO Announces Partnership With Barça Studios for FC Barcelona Soccer Coaching Content

LOS ANGELES, United States and BARCELONA, Spain (Aug. 16, 2021) — In a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at hundreds of millions of families with young soccer players worldwide, FC Barcelona, the world’s most popular football club, through its media arm Barça Studios, and MOJO, the innovative youth sports app, announced a new coaching content partnership to help coaches, young athletes and families learn the renowned “Barça Way” of playing soccer.

As the new LaLiga Santander (Spanish first division) season kicks off and millions of young athletes return to sports in the fall, FC Barcelona’s renowned methodology, strategy and tactics will be showcased in hundreds of premium instructional videos distributed in the award-winning MOJO app, which helps coaches plan practices at the touch of a button and empowers parents to play with kids at home. Produced in close collaboration with FC Barcelona’s acclaimed youth coaches, the MOJO videos teach the club’s most effective on-field drills along with proven at-home skill-development games and activities.

“FC Barcelona believes in the power of innovative technology to help coaches, parents and young players build confidence, develop fundamental skills and learn to love the game,” said a spokesperson for Barça Studios. “With our new coaching content partnership with MOJO, we are excited to share the Barça methodology and philosophy with millions of coaches, parents and young athletes around the world. By popularizing the Barça way in the MOJO app, we believe that we can help transform the lives of countless young athletes, coaches and families with FC Barcelona’s core values of humility, effort, ambition, respect and teamwork.”

In July, an Emmy-winning team of MOJO producers traveled to Spain to work with FC Barcelona’s youth coaches. In one week of production on Field 8 of FC Barcelona Sports Center, MOJO and a team from Barça Studios captured the club’s on-field and at-home drills and activities designed to help young athletes learn how to recover the ball, maintain possession and score.

“We are honored to partner with FC Barcelona to bring the very best methodology, drills and activities to coaches, young soccer players and their families,” said Ben Sherwood, founder and CEO of MOJO, and former co-chair of the Disney Media Networks, who has coached his two sons in soccer over the past 12 years. “It is a privilege to work closely with the outstanding teams at Barça Studios and the Barça Academy to bring the Barça Way to families and young athletes everywhere.”

As LaLiga Santander kicks off an exciting new season this month, viewership of FC Barcelona games in the US is expected to skyrocket. ESPN will carry all LaLiga matches under a new eight year agreement announced in May.

FC Barcelona joins MOJO’s impressive list of partners including: NFL FLAG, US Youth Soccer, SAY Soccer, Positive Coaching Alliance and the Aspen Institute’s Sports and Society Program.

The MOJO app is available on iOS and Android platforms. Follow MOJO on social via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

About FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona was founded in 1899 and is unique in many ways. The Club is owned by its more than 144,000 members. Since season 2004/05 they have won four of the Club’s five Champions League titles and ten of their 26 domestic league titles. Due to its very special personality, Barça is recognized as being ‘More than a club’. The team’s distinctive style of play is projected around the world by the best players and coaches of their time in combination with the club’s famous reliance on homegrown talent.

All of this goes hand in hand with its ongoing ambition to become the most admired, beloved and global sports institution on the planet. This mission is supported by such core principles as humility, effort, ambition, respect and teamwork, while the club is also famed for its commitment to society, which is channelled through the FC Barcelona Foundation and its work to educate children through the positive values of sport. Such unstoppable growth in recent years has led to a global reach of more than 400 million fans on social media, being the sports club with the most followers on social.

About Barça Studios
Barça Studios is owned and operated by FC Barcelona, centralizing the creation, production and distribution of the club’s audiovisual content. Barça Studios offers fans original and premium quality products while promoting the Barça brand and generating a new revenue stream for the club.

About MOJO
MOJO is on a mission to make youth sports more fun and magical for everyone – one kid, one coach, one team at a time. Launched in February 2021, MOJO is a robust digital platform that empowers parents who coach youth sports to bring world-class training to the largest pool of players in the world – kids aged 13 and under. Winner of the Webby Award for Best Sports App of 2021, MOJO believes that youth sports has the power to transform lives, not just for the kids on the field but the coaches and parents on the sidelines. MOJO is committed to equity, inclusion and helping to level the playing field for kids everywhere. For more information, visit www.mojo.sport.