Faithful to a protective shield and the principles of solidarityMarco Antonio Zorita Montesinos, “Marco Tete” (Calamonte, April 9, 2000) doesn’t say it openly, but he is particularly happy. Be The intellectual and sentimental concern for some colors led him to develop (and at least partially implement) a proposal to support the association. with which he has always been associated and in which he debuted when he was not yet 17 years old.
With a dual vocation, a football player and a computer engineer, the winger from Calamonte, a club in the third division of Extremadura, has already tested an application that he developed as a final project after successfully completing his studies at the University Center of Mérida. And the prospects go much further: he can develop further in any smaller club in the region at very low cost. Technology at the service of the progress of the humble.
The protagonist tells how everything came about. “Once I heard from President Antonio Barrero that they wanted to enter the codes for the subscriptions, etc., but that it was very expensive. And I thought: That’s very simple, in quotes. I can do this.’ When I had to decide on the race and that clubs like Mérida were doing it, which also had results, access, buying clothes, etc., I told a teacher with whom I had learned a technology that I used to teach my teacher to be, Enrique Moguel. He accepted it and said that he thought it was a very good idea. “That’s when we started designing it.”
The underlying philosophy is explained in a very academic way. “It is not always easy to maintain the flow of communication between sports clubs and fans, especially for the most humble ones. This communication would make many processes easier. “They are often not produced effectively,” explains Marco in one of the summaries of his thesis.
“This application arose from a need for the club as it wants to move forward with new technologies at the same time and does not have a budget that allows this. Among the improvements the club requested was scanner access control, as purchasing these scanners and managing them was not feasible. “Another improvement is the savings in ticket and ticket printing, not only economically but also environmentally,” he says.
FOR THE FUTURE
The footballer and computer engineer says: “I had many more ideas than the ones I developed, which were left as future work and are being implemented,” he adds.
On the first day, last Sunday at the Calamonte-Atlético Pueblonuevo, he was a direct witness and protagonist of the “premiere” as he stood at the entrance. He couldn’t be on the pitch due to an injury. “There were no problems. The cell phone is scanned and passed on, but the club has members over 80 years old, which may raise some doubts about the organization itself. “There were no problems on the first day,” he says happily.
Now the application is ready if you want to go further. “We have to make some adjustments, but it’s ready,” he says, taking a break at the company where he works in Mérida, Stemdo, where he carries out cybersecurity work. The footballer is happy with a job that does not prevent him from combining his two passions.
The club interested in applying must contact him via social networks (there is no other way) and in particular Linkedin. An innovator and football and computer enthusiast awaits you. The future is already here and it is evolving as quickly from the edge of the field as from the technological device.
