Didier Drogba joins his buddies from Magic System once again. This time the guys take it to the Skyrock studios in Paris. If you can’t get enough of this, try on the full Magic System video featuring Drogba and his Ivorian teammates. You are sure to recognize a few faces. (more…)
Interesting links directly or tangentially related to soccer:
Not only can the Dear Leader hide nuclear missiles, he also knows football tactics. Those are two pretty mean party tricks. Most reading types are aware of the Great Leader’s nuclear ambitions, but not too many folks are probably aware that North Korean leader and super-tactician Kim Jong-Il was also the inspiration behind North Korea’s march to South Africa. That’s right. And to think we’ve spent the better part of the last five months praising Roy Hodgson whose full time job is to manage Fulham. The Great Leader has to juggle tactical preparation with oppressing his people, rationing electricity, nuclear arms negotiations, collecting fabulous sunglasses, and forcible relocations. Take that Roy Hodgson, you one-trick pony. (more…)
Puma, you have competition in the cool category. Check out the NIKE Write the Future commercial for the World Cup. It’s got cameos for days, an inspired storyline, ping pong, babies, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kobe Bryant and Homer Simpson. How could it be bad? Unfortunately, there’s no cameo for Cameo. Given how far World Cup commercials have come since the 90s, I’m scared to see what the commercials will look like in ten years. You’ll probably be able to put yourself in them. Anyway, sit back and watch NIKE Write the Future: (more…)
Soccer players aren’t born diving. It’s not like Cristiano Ronaldo stepped out of his mother’s womb and tripped over the doctor’s leg, rolling around in agony until a referee awarded a free kick. At some point during the course of Cristiano Ronaldo’s career, something happened to him and the rest of his contemporaries that provided the right incentives to dive whenever presented with the opportunity. (more…)
This past Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher had on Alan Brinkley, author of The Publisher, a book chronicling the life of Time Inc.’s founder, Henry Luce. Part of Maher’s conversation with Brinkley focused on how the current issue of Time’s 100 Most Influential People is a testament to the decaying state of the magazine business. (more…)
So we’re still waiting on the announcement of the Ivory Coast job. Sven Goran Eriksson and Bernd Schuster are known to be on the shortlist. In the last couple of days, former Manchester City boss Mark Hughes has sadly surfaced as an option, probably because of his wildly successful stints at Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City. You already know how I feel about the African coaching selection process. But after this recent news of Mark Hughes’ inclusion on the shortlist for the Ivory Coast job, it is clear that someone is playing a practical joke. (more…)
Cotê d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) star Didier Drogba recently sent a letter to the Ivorian press apologizing for the team’s poor performance in the recent African Cup of Nations. Drogba’s letter was a sign of recognition that he knows how much the Ivorian team, nicknamed Les Éléphants, means to the Ivorian people. In the 2006 African Cup of Nations, the Ivorian team’s electric performances brought levels of civil unrest to a halt in Cotê d’Ivoire. (more…)
According to FIFA, South Africa’s strategy to win the right to host the 2010 World Cup was simple but powerful. South Africa argued that it had the best stadia facilities in Africa. It had commercial backing from leading corporations. It had the continent’s strongest economy, a sophisticated media and broadcast industry, and an enormous South African support base from the South African population. Members of the South African Organizing Committee and those lobbying on its behalf also repeatedly suggested that getting the World Cup would be part of Africa’s renaissance strategy.
Historically, facilities, commercial backing, a stable economy, media and broadcast capability, and local support have all been vital and necessary components of a successful World Cup bid. But in positioning itself to win the right to host the World Cup, it seems that South Africa might have lost sight of the fact that South Africa is not Germany or France or South Korea/Japan or the United States. (more…)
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