The World Cup 2010 Commercials Have Begun

April 19th, 2010 | by: Daryl |

visa tv ad Have you seen this Visa World Cup related commercial yet? It’s about a slightly overweight (possibly English) gentleman who sees a goal on TV, jumps out of his armchair to celebrate, and keeps celebrating all the way to South Africa, where he somehow (and the commercial’s not very clear on this) gets selected to play for one of the 32 teams. Possibly he was picked for his celebratory skills?

Good stuff, and it has me excited for the avalanche of expensively assembled football related commercials that will herald the arrival of World Cup 2010. A possibly naive question though: Do you ever wonder why certain companies even bother advertising? Visa is a good example. Their product and symbol is seemingly everywhere already. Very likely it’s in your wallet right now. Yet they still felt the need to put together this ad. Strikes me as money wasted, but I like the idea of companies so ubiquitous making unnecessary commericals purely to entertain us, and to give bloggers something to post on Monday afternoons.

[vid spotted on It's Nice That]

If that’s got you in a World Cup commercial mood then check out this ESPN tournament primer, and this classic bit of salesmanship from the swoosh.

If you spot any quality World Cup commericals, please let us know in the comments, or send an email to tips[at]theoffside[dot]com.

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http://barnsleyblog.com Oli

I’m certain Laurie posted this before…
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

I’ve checked back and can’t find any trace of it. Seems the ad was released only recently too.
http://japan.worldcupblog.org/ Aidan

Perhaps in the States, but this ad has been “running” in the UK for about a month now…sorry for the awful pun!
http://barnsleyblog.com Oli

Yep, I first saw it at half time in the first leg Chelsea-Inter.
http://japan.worldcupblog.org/ Aidan

But it’s well worth another look anyway!

Like Daryl, I quite enjoy the extended build up to the tournament with things like this, just seems to add to the anticipation.

I can well remember one from my youth which was an ad for a World Cup magazine or something like that for the 1990 World Cup – it showed a kid sick with fever in bed, and the doctor came to check him over. The kid was shaking and sweating and murmuring “football, football” over and over, so the doctor said – “It’s simple, he’s got World Cup fever”…and presumably the cure was to buy the preview magazine or some such nonsense…I still remember it whenever I see mention of World Cup fever!!
http://goyangkarawang.com/2010/04/arenabetting-com-dukung-fair-play-fifa-world-cup-afsel-2010/ Fair Play FIFA World Cup

nice idea for this posting…

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http://betting.ladbrokes.com/en/world-cup-odds-football Fred

Commercials are one of the added cool things about the World Cup. I always look forward to them.