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March 18, 2006
Got Joga?: Google and Nike are starting a soccerfootball-oriented social network, leveraging the Orkut system, and you only get in if a current member invites you. Anybody here a member? Is it worth asking for an invitation?
posted by billsaysthis to soccer at 12:09 AM - 7 comments
Cool?
posted by StarFucker at 01:42 PM on March 18, 2006
Looks like contrived 'fanboy' stuff, with a heavy corporate presence, designed to shift Nike gear. Unless I'm very much mistaken...
posted by owlhouse at 05:35 PM on March 18, 2006
owlhouse, I suspect you're right. I liked the ads they've been running (in the States; I don't know how far these things travel) with Eric Cantona taking over a TV station and berating boring soccer, but if this is where that campaign is going, that's disappointing.
posted by chicobangs at 11:35 PM on March 18, 2006
I like NIKE's vidoe ads...especially when they took a video of my dad in Dallas, TX...he is an ex-pro goalkeeper who still trains local youth goalkeepers...his name is Frank Hason...I enjoyed watching the video, plus we need all the financial support we can get to get cash poured in the our game here in the USA...our young kids need a future in professional soccer, and it takes money to sustain a pro league, in any country. I also like the Eric Cantona taking over a TV station video ad...which I believe promotes quality soccer, creative soccer, and entertaining soccer, and not the violent prone level of soccer evident in today's top soccer players, I am totally against the violence in today's soccer game...a fan pays good money to watch a total of less than 45 minutes of actually soccer play, and the rest of the minutes on the field of play are spent on players picking themselves off the field after a violent tackle, etc...that is a waste of a fan's money, and a waste of talent in reference to the players on the field of play. So go Nike GO!
posted by phason at 04:35 AM on March 19, 2006
I'm glad for your father, phason, but I wish I shared your enthusiasm for Nike and what looks less and less like a movement to benefit "beautiful soccer" and youth leagues, and more like a straight cash grab and a way to pad their mailing lists.
posted by chicobangs at 07:21 AM on March 19, 2006
Besides, Brazil haven't played the 'joga bonito' since about 1982...
posted by owlhouse at 01:19 PM on March 20, 2006
I get the feeling Brasil is going to be the most popular topic of discussion.