By Ollie Irish

Mildly exciting research published this week has revealed which football clubs sell the most shirts around the world. You won't be surprised to find out that the list is dominated by sportswear giantsNike and Adidas. In reverse order then...

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Juventus (Nike): 400,000 - 600,000 shirts per season, on average

(Figures based on average sales per season, 2005-09)

Muchos se preguntan cuales son las camisetas y uniformes de equipos de fútbol soccer mas vendidas en el mundo. Pues en Europa específicamente en Alemania han hecho una comparativa de las mas reconocidas marcas deportivas que existen, nike y adidas todo esto en el sitio PR-marketing.

A planned adidas PR stunt that had Lionel Messi appearing in three London locations backfired yesterday. The idea was that Messi would land at Hackney Marshes (home to 88 football pitches) and make a guest appearance in a game between two high school teams.

Cada vez me convenzo mas que en Holanda es donde hacen las campañas de publicidad deportivas mas originales y divertidas, como que los holandeses tienen una forma de pensar diferente que el resto de los europeos.

Es que para mostrar la nueva camiseta del Ajax del 2008 realizaron una excelente campaña planeada por Adidas y TBWA para promocionar el cambio de uniforme del club holandés, consistió en un intercambio de camisetas, regalaban la nueva playera del Ajax y la gente que pasaba por ahi les daban la que traían puesta.

The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol has launched a special edition Mexico white adidas 2010 kit to be used for El Tri's upcoming friendlies against Colombia and Ecuador. The new adidas Mexico kit recognizes the country's Independence Bicentennial (Bicentenario de la independencia) with a patch on its right sleeve and will be produced in a limited quantity [.

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, commonly called HJK Helsinki, is a Finnish football club, based in the capital Helsinki. It is the most successful Finnish club in history with 22 Veikkausliiga league titles. In recent times, HJK Helsinki has featured several players who went on to careers in major European league.

Lionel Messi usará una edición especial de la bota F50 adiZero

F50 adiZero – El zapato de adidas más ligero y rápido en la historia

Herzogenaurach, 7 de septiembre – El día de hoy Lionel Messi estará usando una edición especial del botín F50 con motivo de la celebración del Partido amistoso entre el actual Campeón del Mundo, la selección Española y el Combinado Nacional Argentino.

With an army of new fans following their recent run to the quarter-finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the exploits of superbabe Larissa Riquelme, the Paraguay national soccer team is achieving new heights. While most are now familiar with La Albirroja's (Red and White's) striped 2010/11 adidas home kit, few have seen the Paraguay [.

Popular Colombian soccer club Club Deportivo Los Millonarios has released a limited edition adidas 2010/11 away kit that pays homage its home city of Bogota in recognition of Colombia's Independence Bicentennial. The Millonarios adidas 10/11 adidas away kit deviates from the club's usual white road jersey by featuring the colors of the Colombia national flag and [.

The Mexican federation along with Adidas has just released the Mexico adidas Bicentenario 2010 Special Edition Jersey!

The new adidas Mexico kit recognizes the country's Independence Bicentennial (Bicentenario de la independencia) with a patch on its right sleeve and will be produced in a limited quantity of 10,000.

FIFA has released its World Cup 2010 Technical Report in the form of a 9.28 megabyte pdf document. Which might sound impressive, but only if you haven't read it. Because this thing is 289 pages of fluff, in four different languages.

The document basically contains a lot of pictures, a lot of over-simplifications, and a lot of glossing over hard truths.

Manchester United and Liverpool sell more official replica football shirts, for Nike and Adidas respectively, than any other teams in the English Premier League, and both are at or close to the top of the global merchandise sales tables according to multi-year research

My posting has grown a bit sparse of late, and I'm sorry for that. Sadly, I'll be on the road again this weekend, but I'll try to catch a replay of the Houston match when I get in late Sunday and post a few thoughts. In the meantime, I thought we might follow on from the roster poll of a few weeks ago by doing a protected list poll.

The Adidas Softwear collection is a mixed bunch to say the least. Some of the sneakers in the collection have that classic look and feel while others feature crazy colors and patterns. The materials in use could be called unusual textiles to say the least. One thing is for sure, this collection is hot.

Esto de los uniformes esta de campeonato, primero el uniforme verde que nadie queria pero fue el mas vendido y después el famoso uniforme negro que al inicio causo polemica, para después pasar a ser el mas popular.

Ahora con motivo del festejo Bicentenario han decidido aprovechar y festejar con un nuevo uniforme ahora de color blanco.

Union

KYW talks to Justin Mapp.

From head coach of the soccer team at St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark to vice president of business development and international affairs for the Philadelphia Union, here's a profile on Rick Jacobs.

Big Soccer has a mock 2011 Expansion Draft thread going for the Union.

Hoy a las 6pm en el Fan House Tigre de InnovaSport en Humberto Lobo, se estarán presentando Lucas Lobos, Juninho y Jorge Torres Nilo para una firma de autógrafos previa al Clásico que organiza esta conocida tienda deportiva y adidas.

Spanish giants Real Madrid has officially launched its adidas 2010/11 third kit. The strip that Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and the rest of Jose Mourinho's team will wear for their UEFA Champions League travels next season has hit the racks and is now available for purchase at authorized distributors. Its release follows the launch of the [.

Just a fifth of advertisements that featured the 2010 Fifa World Cup resonated with consumers, according to a report by Ipsos ASI.

Thomas Mueller is easily the best player on the planet who looks like Big Bird. (I'll stand by that.)

• Fixing football, two rules at a time. (SoccerLens)
• A trip to the Bernabeu. (European Football Weekends)
• Ines Sainz fancies football, too. (Soccer Training Info)
• CR just wants to be loved.

Hurried and harried, so I'll leave you with a few quick links:
- Lio Messi spent the past couple of days trotting around London on a PR stunt for Adidas that went horribly wrong. I don't see how they expected it to work out in the first place.
- Here's Gerard Pique 'not knowing what to say' about his status as the number one sizzling Catalan in the eastern or western hemisphere.

INTERSPORT has been appointed official sports shop of licensed products for the next two UEFA European Football Championships, continuing its cooperation with UEFA and adidas.

Londres experimenta la velocidad de Lionel Messi y las botas doradas edición especial F50 adiZero
LONDON, ENGLAND SEPTEMBER 15: adidas bring footballer Lionel Messi to London to promote an F50 adizero football boot event on Hackney Marshes on September 15, 2010 in London, England.

Muchos se preguntan cuales son las camisetas y uniformes de equipos de fútbol soccer mas vendidas en el mundo. Pues en Europa específicamente en Alemania han hecho una comparativa de las mas reconocidas marcas deportivas que existen, nike y adidas todo esto en el sitio PR-marketing.de

Como podrán ver a continuación el Manchester United y el Real Madrid son las camisetas que mas ingresos generaron a sus dueños.

After a 19-year hiatus from Italy's top tier AC Cesena are back in the Italian Serie A and have emerged as the surprise league leaders three games into the 2010/11 season. With a goaless tie against AS Roma, a 2-0 win over AC Milan and a 1-0 win over Lecce, Cesena currently have seven points [...]

With the 2010/11 English Premier League season well underway, some soccer fans have been wondering about the tight-fitting kits that some of the Liverpool players have been seen wearing with what appears to be X-shaped webs on their backs. The kit in question is the Liverpool 2010/12 adidas TECHFIT jersey.

Fudbalski Klub Partizan (commonly referred to as FK Partizan or Partizan) is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. FK Partizan is the reigning Serbian SuperLiga champion. As such, the club qualified for the Second Qualifying Round of the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League. Following victories against FC Pyunik, HJK Helsinki and RSC Anderlecht, Partizan [.

Adidas has enlisted the help of Steven Gerrard to inspire teenagers to participate in sport and promote its sponsorship of the London 2012 Games.