Adidas Can Write The Future, Nike Cannot.

June 29th, 2010 | by: chris |

This has been percolating throughout and hit a fervor today, as every single main star of Nike’s Write The Future ad is now out of the tournament. Even a few of the minor stars, like the US duo and Cesc, who’s played a whole 59 minutes in 4 games, are falling to the curse as well (Iniesta and Pique are still going strong).

The verdict:

Didier Drogba: Broken arm before the tournament; crashed out in the groups.

Fabio Cannavaro: First round exit; tainted his legacy with a pretty mediocre showing in central defense; added injury to insult by retiring to Dubai.

Franck Ribery: First round exit; may or may not have called Yoann Gourcuff names and/or punched him in his pretty face.

Wayne Rooney: Quarterfinal thrashing by Germany; game can be found on a milk carton, because it was nowhere to be found.

Ronaldinho: Not invited despite having perfect teeth.

Cristiano Ronaldo: Quarterfinal exit to Spain; out of eight World Cup halves, he showed up for most of one – when Portugal were already routing North Korea.

In summation: complete failure by Nike.

adidas, on the other hand, went with Lionel Messi and David Villa.

The former is a heavy candidate, if not favorite, for the Golden Ball and David Villa is joint-leader for top scorer (with Higuain and Vittek at 4) – an award conveniently sponsored by adidas – and just as importantly, still playing. They also might have predicted a semifinal, with Argentina needing to beat Germany and Spain to slip past Paraguay for the semifinal of speed.

So clearly we can deduce adidas’ products are better than Nike’s. Because commercials never lie.

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http://www.facebook.com/jatinsharma85 Jatin Sharma

hahaa… does that mean that rooney grows a beard?
richNYC

Yep,

and Adidas dipshits decided not to import Slovakia jerseys into the US. The team beats the reigning champion Italy, advances to the knockout stage and still has a guy among the tournament top scorers and no official Slovakian jerseys to be found anywhere here…

BAD BAD BAD ADIDAS!!!
Geoffrey72

A friend of a friend, who's Chilean, went to buy a Chile jersey before the World Cup, and the guy at the store told her, “Sorry, we only carry the serious contender jerseys.”
kakamakesmyday

yeah but dont forget that nike is the official sponser of the brazilian team but then again Kaka is sponsered by addidas so addidas is better
kakamakesmyday

and the stock market will crash and a whole bunch of babies wouldn't be named wayne. what a shame
http://www.paperdistribution.ro/ papetarie

so better not be a pretty good replica
http://twitter.com/Zkaj Zbigniew Judek

Still – Nike ad is so much better and more intresting. Adidas commercial is just boring.
bigwnfan

this article is senseless. did you expect a commercial to tell you the future? The Nike ad is a fun advert, no, wait, a super fun advert, regardless of how the players did. adidas is old, tired, and their advert is booooooooring. The nike ad is at least fun to watch, even more so than that horrible Paraguay / Japan match…wait, aren't they both adidas?
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PCFBCUH4DU7YPXZO2GXONDPQPY Aussie Chris

Also to be found on a milk carton: bigwnfan's sense of humour.
http://www.facebook.com/alexwells Alex Wells

Isn't that Federer playing table tennis with Rooney?! He just got knocked out of wimbledon this morning..
http://www.mcalcio.com Marco P.

At the time, Nike still lived on:

Uruguay: Puma
Ghana: Puma
Brazil: Nike
Netherlands: Nike
Germany: Adidas
Argentina:Adidas
Spain: Adidas
Paraguay: Adidas

In the semis, this means we are guaranteed to have 2 Adidas teams, 1 Nike, 1 Puma.

Now that Brazil is out, it's hard to predict who'll win between Adidas & Nike. Either way, an Adidas team will definitely make the final.