The Beautiful Game

If I had a subscription to Vanity Fair magazine, I’d be curled up in bed reading the  latest World Cup issue. Here’s why:

All I can say is, mmm. Being a professional footballer does your body much good and brings new meaning to The Beautiful Game.

However, just to keep in line with the theme of this site, what do you guys think of the flag underwear? Yay or nay?

Now excuse me while I feast my eyes.

Write Your Future

In the spirit of the just opened World Cup, Nike has recently released the best football ad ever. Witty, entertaining and chockful of references to the business of The Beautiful Game, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Nike has outdone itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE

Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Alejandro González Iñárritu (he directed the Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, Brad Pitt-starring international drama Babel), the ad is three minutes of alternate universe-imagining.

Especially loved Wayne Rooney’s two universes, Ronaldinho’s Samba-robics and Ronaldo in The Simpsons.

This post is part of the  series.

World Cup Sneak Peek

A sneak peek into the Australian training regime in preparation for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. If only they bothered to train against monsters, not animals mind you, they just might win!

World Cup Fever

has begun.

What better way to celebrate kickoff than with a short history lesson? I hereby present you:

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Click on the link above to get to the interactive page and find out more about each final!

Ah, let The Beautiful Game begin. (Which team are you rooting for this year?)

“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”

- Bill Shankly, former Liverpool FC manager

Making a Football out of a Condom

In case you were wondering if the title of this post was meant to be sensationalistic, it wasn’t. I refer you to this short video clip from the documentary Football Made In Africa.

Poverty in Africa is very real. Despite being rich in natural resources, African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity. In many of these nations, GDP per capita is less than US$200 per year, with the vast majority of the population living on much less. We can throw figure after figure, but I can safely say we have no idea how impoverished these nations are until we’ve seen it for ourselves.

Go visit Africa today. Join a mission. Sign up for humanitarian aid. Help out.