Challenge: In 1998, Internetsoccer was looking for the online capability to manage the statistics data and content updates for eight hundred professional soccer teams, thirty-five leagues, forty-five countries, and numerous tournaments from the world of soccer. Combined with this seemingly complex problem was the fact that the data needed to be searched, displayed, and distributed in many different ways.

Approach: RMG3 programmers utilized 1Touch™ to provide live, up-to-the-minute game updates, historical results, and future events in a context-sensitive way. In addition, the system allowed for the maintenance and display of tables of rankings, standings, and various detailed statistics pertaining to such entities as players, coaches, teams, and leagues. RMG3’s Editorial team coordinated more than 300 writers who produced more than 1400 articles per week, spanning the globe of world soccer.

Result: 1touch.rmg3.com grew to become the most popular independent soccer news site in North America. The site became popular by allowing users visiting their favorite team’s page for news, to also see the live score if the team was currently playing a game, the most recent historical results of that team, a schedule of the next few games, the players that are on the teams roster for the current season, and the teams standings compared to the other teams in the league for the current season. All the news was gathered and displayed in a timely fashion. With the popularity of the site, RMG3 sold it in 2002 to the US Men’s National Soccer Team Players as a launching pad for their new site, ussoccerplayers.com, and internetsoccer.com fans can still get all their news an updates via either site location.

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