[Hat tip to the Bengali Fob] Soccer, the Beautiful Game, will be celebrated all over the world when the 2006 World Cup starts on June 9th in Germany. Nike is putting together a chain ad, called Joga Bonito, from 15-second clips contributed by soccer fans from all over the world. Click on the above image to see about 5 minutes of the ad. You can go to the Nike Joga Bonito site for a lot more fun stuff and the complete ad. You can also contribute your own video clip there.
For the next month, all readers of this blog will have to suffer through my occasional posts about the World Cup as I continue my ongoing love affair with the Beautiful Game. I apologize in advance to the readers who find soccer to be as boring as watching grass grow.
Finally, this post is dedicated to the only other person at my work who is as excited about the World Cup as I am. The rest of you, and you know who you are, need to see the light 🙂
No, please don’t do this. You’ll now get me fully hooked to your blog as you add World Cup posts to your insightful, intelligent and articulate political ones. I think I hear my wife calling for me…
I think the word for “brilliant” in Portuguese is Ronaldinho. :d
I found your blog via Torture Awareness Month – but now I know you’re from the US – calling football, the beautiful game, soccer. I’m afraid I’m going to end up doing the same thing with the soccer on my blog, but I did manage to reference the problems with racism in football and the World Cup.
Alfredo, every night in my dreams I play like Ronaldinho. :)>-
MHB, I was listening to NPR today and they were discussing soccer (football, as we like to say in the old country) and globalization. It was a stretch, but, there might be something there for a post. 😕
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