Nike Football introduces the CTR360 Maestri III football boot with a new commercial entitled
"Take Control" featuring FC Barcelona soccer great Andres Iniesta. The advert showcases Iniesta and
the competition as string puppets before reverting to real life footballers.
Ad Credits:
The music in Nike commercial is Zigeunerweisen, Op.
In our never-ending search for truth, we have consulted a preeminent French cultural expert on a
stunning phenomenon: American celebrities professing love to a UK-based soccer club which has not
won anything for over 6 years. Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? These are the questions that will
not be resolved.
There are good YouTube videos. Then there are great YouTube videos. Then, above that, there are
classic YouTube videos that will go down in history. This Brett Favre video qualifies in that third
class. It's a parody of LeBron James Nike commercial. But it's so amazingly well done and hilarious
that it succeeds on its own.
Not sure what to think of this... For a Nike commercial, some strikers were together in some
silly recording studio. Van Wolfswinkel thought he could have lunch. Until Huntelaar came along and
punk'd Ricky.
I was pleased yesterday to find that ESPNU was showing the U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany,
and tuned into the US-Ghana game The first half was exciting, with Ghana threatening an upset over
the defending champions, 1-0 up at the break thanks to a simply fantastic strike from Elizabeth
Cudjoe from 20, 25 yards or so (somehow, the significance of the US playing Ghana again at a World
Cup and going 1-0 down early in the game didn't hit me until everyone reminded me of it on
Twitter).
It has now been a week since the U.S. men's national team's departure from the World Cup, and
while there continues to be some angst over the missed opportunity the team had to make a deeper
run in the tournament, the fact remains that the run they did make touched quite a few people back
home.
It may just be a commercial, but I think this new Nike commercial does a good job of capturing
the feelings of many American soccer fans after this World Cup:
It's already been well noted that the players involved in Nike's Write the Future campaign have
had horrible World Cups: Didier Drogba, Fabio Cannavaro, Franck Ribery, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano
Ronaldo are all out of World Cup 2010 after enduring various misfortunes. Poor Ronaldinho didn't
even make the Brazil squad.
The Final Third bumped into it's friend Gilbert Montoya at the Montalban Futsal tournament the
other night... so what? You may remember this Nike commercial: Gilly is the man with the camera
on his head!
We'll be bringing you more Gilbert Montoya action soon, and our video from week 1 of the Nike
Futsal Tournament this week!
Amazing advert While OTP was battling the technical gremlins last week, we failed to bring you
Nike's Write The Future advert. We are compelled to do so now on the grounds that it might be the
greatest advert ever. Any commercial containing a bearded Wayne Rooney living in a caravan and
Cristiano Ronaldo nutmegging Homer Simpson [.
Though only a small sample-size, the World Cup can be career-altering. Franck
Ribery was a surprise inclusion to the French squad in 2006. A few great performances for
France later, he was one of the biggest stars in football and the presumptive replacement for the
legendary Zinedine Zidane.
Good morning all. The U.S. men's national kicks off its World Cup preparations tonight when it
takes on the Czech Republic (8pm, ESPN2) in a friendly that will decide the roster fate of several
fringe players.
On Monday, it was the U.S. team's opening World Cup opponent in action as England's World Cup
preparations kicked off with a 3-1 victory against Mexico at Wembley Stadium.
He's listed as 6'2", weighing 180 pounds. He looks like a pure athlete, like he could have played
American football or NBA basketball. But, Mario Balotelli is a forward in Soccer, a goal-scorer, a
striker.
He's coming off excellent performances in Euro Cup 2012 that raised his profile worldwide.
If you're free Sunday night, you should watch this film.
It's called Pelada, and it's being screened Sunday here in Philly.
Pelada follows two college soccer players Duke's Gwendolyn Oxenham and Luke Boughen of Notre
Dame who traveled the world in search of pickup games and the stories behind the people who played
them.
