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Joe Montana Joins Fan Controlled Football League as Investor and Chief Strategic AdvisorCULVER CITY, Calif., Sept. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Fan Controlled Football League (FCFL), the first professional football league where fans call all the shots, announced today that Hall of Fame NFL quarterback and venture capitalist, Joe Montana, will join the league as Chief Strategic Advisor and as an investor. "I'm tremendously excited to be partnering with the FCFL," commented the NFL legend, Joe Montana. "What this team has created is innovative, engaging, and will energize the digital age football fan. Fans will hire the coaches, draft the players and call all the plays in real time. It's a real-life video game and the future of sports." In Montana's role as FCFL's Chief Strategic Advisor, he will be a driving force in the formation and development of the league's brand messaging, integral in football and technical innovations and will provide invaluable expertise from front office operations to fan engagement. Montana joins a diverse team of advisors with experience across all aspects of sports, technology and gaming, including recently appointed Chief Operating Officer, Andy Dolich. Dolich is a renowned sports executive who brings over five decades of experience in the industry, including frontoffice positions in the NFL, MLB, NBA & NHL. CEO and Co-Founder, Sohrob Farudi, stated, "We couldn't be more thrilled to have the GOAT, Joe Montana, join the FCFL. As we continue to build and launch the sports platform for the digital fan, we will look to Joe for leadership and expertise in every facet of the league." Next up for the league will be the announcements of Fan Captains for each of the inaugural eight teams, the initiation of fan voting on a variety of subjects including team names, logos and league rules, as well as a number of other strategic alliances. The FCFL season will officially kick off in May, 2019. FCFL has an exclusive, multi-year streaming broadcast agreement with Twitch, a live streaming video platform owned by a subsidiary of Amazon. Twitch will co-market the FCFL to its user base of over 120+ million monthly viewers. Using a custom Twitch Extension, the FCFL and Twitch have developed an interactive overlay for desktop and mobile, allowing fans to call the plays natively on top of the Twitch video player. The FCFL is the first professional sports league built on top of the Twitch platform. About Joe Montana About FCFL View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/joe-montana-joins-fan-controlled-football-league-as-investor-and-chief-strategic-advisor-300717383.html SOURCE Fan Controlled Football League |