There are a lot of sports themed NFT games on several blockchains. The most popular I know is Sorare Fantasy Football. In Hive, the first sports themed NFT game is called Genesis League Goals, also a football themed game. This is the first game introduced by Genesis League Sports, a platform whose focus is to develop sports themed Web3 games.
Genesis League Goals can be accessed in their site, https://goals.genesisleaguesports.com/. You can login using your hive keychain. To start playing the game, you will need to build your soccer team. Like real life soccer team, you will need a coach, a goalkeeper, two forwards, two midfielders and two defenders. You can buy packs or buy cards from the market. You will also need a franchise to own a team and unlock the #play2earn capability.
You will need to familiarize yourself with the game's mechanics. Games are turn-based, where you decide actions such as passing, dribbling, or shooting within five seconds per turn. Your success in the actions is determined by the statistics of your players.
Red statistics represent offensive abilities like passing, dribbling and shooting while the ones in blue are your defensive abilities: intercepting, blocking and tackling.
By playing matches against other players, you can earn GLX tokens. This is the game's governance tokens. It can be traded in tribaldex or staked to earn APR.
The game is easy to play and engaging if you are a soccer fan. You can try a practice match against a bot opponent. https://goals.genesisleaguesports.com/get-started
Genesis League Goals is the first game by Genesis League Sports. In the future, GLS is looking to release more sports themed games. I'm looking forward for a chess themed game on Hive similar to AniChess or Chess Universe.
Links
GLS Website: https://genesisleaguesports.com/
GLG Website: https://goals.genesisleaguesports.com/
Help: https://support-goals.genesisleaguesports.com/hc/en-us
GLS Whitepaper: https://whitepaper.genesisleaguesports.com/
GLG Whitepaper: https://whitepaper-goals.genesisleaguesports.com/