Creative Criminals

Cool slow-motion commercial for the newest Mercurial shoes featuring Cristiano Ronaldo, the portugese superstar from Real Madrid. In the beginning you see all kind of people getting blown away until the camera catches up to Cristiano Ronaldo, and the whole thing reaches ‘normal’ pace again as the Portuguese captain rips through the defence to slam the ball home off the laces..

Ajax is the Dutch champion in their soccer league. When presenting the new jersey to their supporters, something special happened. When the fans were fitting the new jersey, a door opened where all the Ajax-players were standing behind to build a party with the fan.

Every year in Germany, more than 100,000 children and young people are reported missing. In the search for missing children, one factor that is crucial in finding a child is information from the general public. Kempertrautmann used the help of the internet, to assemble the biggest search party of all time and get the whole of Germany searching for missing children.

The Nike football videos are conquering the harts of soccer fans in the lead up for Euro 2012, the European soccer championship. In this video, Manchester City’s striker Mario Balotelli walks into a barbershop and asks the barber to cut his hair in order ‘to be remembered’. He is shown with the iconic styles of Brazilians Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, Colombian Carlos Valderrama and even Chris Waddle. The City striker eventually settled for his own trademark mohican, before bumping into France’s Mamadou Sakho on his way out.

Nike just launched their new commercial online. A 3 minute short film with the new upcoming talents such as Neymar, M’Vila and Götze unafraid to line up with Ribéry, Sneijder and Ronaldo in a funny situation.
Ready for the chance. Are you?

F.C. København is a danish soccer club based in Kopenhagen. Like many soccer teams, one of the main sponsors is a beer brand. To open a new stand in their stadion, Carlsberg decided to baptize it, with the biggest beer bottle ever made.
Fake or Real?

The Sun, the British News Corp tabloid, launched “Football Brought to Life”, a series of four animated TV adverts featuring Wayne Rooney’s overhead scissor kick goal for United against Manchester City in February 2011. The series was inspired by a football video animated by Richard Swarbrick.

Here’s an old campaign which is worth posting. Eric Cantona, a former French international footballer who played for Marseille, Leeds United and Manchester United, was the face of Liptonic (now Lipton Ice Tea) the end of the nineties.
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Pepsi created a system which made it possible for people who where blind to play a match of football. By placing a head- and smartphone on their heads, combined with 16 cameras giving the position of the other players and the ball, they could play football by hearing, not seeing..

Getafe Club de Fútbol is a Spanish La Liga football club based in Getafe, a city in the Madrid metropolitan area. Here’s a remarkable video made by Getafe to attract new football fans to their Coliseum Alfonso Pérez.. Curious if it will work..