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The Elite boots are set to conquer

sinyew.tan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:50:30 GMT

The Elite boots are set to conquer.

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Write The Future – Cristiano Ronaldo Statue

sinyew.tan — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:30:59 GMT

Statues dont build themselves.

Cristiano Ronaldo will need a monumental performance for Portugal this summer in order to Write The Future.

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Just one move to write the future

sinyew.tan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:34:33 GMT

A footballer can change his team’s fate with just one manoeuvre.

One-tenth of a second can decide whether a team is the champion or just the best of the losers.

This Saturday, 22 players will compete for victory in Madrid. A war made up of dozens of battles per minute, in which each ball could be lethal.

The race up the line on your half to pass a team mate the ball to score will be a battle between Alves and Ramos. Taking ownership of the pitch and leaving the opponent’s efforts in dust – that will be the competition between Puyol and Albiol. The ever-present attack in the midfield will be a head-to-head race between Iniesta and Van der Vaart. The element of surprise, which will overwhelm the wings will star Pedro and Marcelo.

Above all, the objective of each manoeuvre, the one thing that makes you win or loose and makes it all worthwhile is the speed of Cristiano, Zlatan and Bojan.

22 players. 1 big match. 1 opportunity.

Write the future.

Innovation = Domination

sinyew.tan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:09:57 GMT

The ultra lightweight Flywire upper gives Zlatan Ibrahimovic the support and firm fit every deadly striker requires.
The carbon composite plate gives players like Theo Walcott and Cristiano Ronaldo the maximum response they crave to burst past challenges.

Nike SENSE Adaptive traction studs extend and retract for lethal grip to help give Andrei Arshavin and Franck Ribery the explosive acceleration they need to beat a defender.

Loaded with Nike Football+, the Mercurial Vapor Superfly II gives you access to master speed training, the Brazilian journey and pro insights.

Rewrite the rules of speed. Get the innovation now

101% Cristiano Ronaldo

sinyew.tan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:16:26 GMT

Cristiano Ronaldo marked himself an objective some time ago - to become history's best player, or at least one of history's best players. He can only achieve this by making the ultimate sacrifice - putting all his energy into football and nothing else.

Yesterday Cristiano showed us once again that his journey towards this objective remains intact. His team was between a rock and a hard place until Ronaldo decided enough was enough. In 5 minutes he finished off the game. First with a goal that was only for the fastest. First - come, first - served. The second goal, a Cristiano classic. Collect, half turn and canon fire.

Cristiano always puts 101% into every move, his desire was so overwhelming that it even ended up getting him a red card for fighting for the ball towards the end.

Cristiano always demands the most of himself. That's why he's unique. That's why he makes the difference.

32 nations, 1 mission

ManishTilwani — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:52:31 GMT

The groups are drawn, the matches set and history awaits.

The chosen 32 have earned their tickets to South Africa. But belief and an appetite for glory will now be put to the test on the world’s biggest stage. Who’s hungry?

Expect danger and perfection in equal doses when Drogba, Fabiano and Ronaldo clash in the early stages. All three lethal finishers will aim to change the game at all times. Backlines brace yourselves...

England will go into their first match against the USA with plenty of confidence, having blazed to the top of their qualification group. Combine Rooney's ruthless eye for goal, Ferdinand's strength and Theo's lightning-quick pace and you have a team ready for business.

But no longer considered inexperienced upstarts, Landon Donovan's side have proved they can hold their own, finishing second in the Confederations Cup – expect the unexpected.

And it’s not just about the big guns. The smaller nations will also be eager to shake things up this summer.

Michael Essien, Muntari, Song and Obi Mikel will be holding it down for the African nations and baring their teeth with the best of them. While South Korea and Australia provide the giant killing potential and look to cause 2010 upsets.

As 2010 draws near, one thing’s for certain – everyone believes they can win it, one team will prove it.

Who will go all the way? Have your say on the Nikefootball facebook Page.

Ronaldo’s Rebirth

ManishTilwani — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:06:39 GMT

All hands on deck and all eyes on one man. Every football fan in the world had a thought to Cristiano Ronaldo’s Spanish debut, and it would be understandable for even the consensus world player of the year to be a bit nervous. But if you tuned in for failure, you don’t know this coolest of competitors.

In the 35th minute, with the eyes of the world upon him, Ronaldo stepped to the penalty spot. A deep breadth, a swipe of a sleeve to catch the sweat from his face. Then no hesitation. A bullet barely caught on camera whizzed across the grass and passed the outstretched arms of a goal keeper who even guessed correctly, diving exactly where the ball had been. Past tense, had been. There was no stopping Ronaldo’s perfect penalty strike, and given the moment, perfect can’t pay it due justice.

T-90 Ascente Testing – Man Utd

ManishTilwani — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:54:30 GMT

Date: 05.02.09
Location: Carrington
Weather conditions: Very cold and windy. Conditions ranged between cloudy, snowing and sunny. Temperature range 0-1C without wind chill. Well below freezing with wind chill. 0-20 mph winds throughout.
Pitch conditions: Good, short grass.
Players and staff: Full first team, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Darren Fletcher, Wes Brown, Edwin Van der Sar, Ben Foster, Rafael da Silva, Tomasz Kuszczak.

Tester’s notes: Freezing cold. And more snow. Balls topped off to 12.5psi.

Team session: 15-mins shots on goal from 20 yards. 8 vs. 2 one-touch keep-ball drill. Fast, one-touch session.

Shooting session: Players hammer the ball, Rooney hits hardest – like a sledgehammer: “Feels nice to strike. Especially when you strike it true.” More finishing drills. Shooting from 3 different spots. Players love shooting with it. All-around accuracy improvements.

Relentless We March

ManishTilwani — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:42:13 GMT

Always one more. One more point needed, one more result to nail, one more title earned in sweat. And then one more final to own, one more stage to dominate, one more cup to lift.

What's one more to a reigning champion? Everything.

CR7 in a league of his own

ManishTilwani — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:19:15 GMT

How good?

A 40 yard free kick – again. Clinical finishing under pressure – again. Elite opposition taken down – again.

That’s how good.

CR7 gets Wired for Speed

ManishTilwani — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:04:49 GMT

One sight that will send a chill down the spines of Europe’s best defenders – the world’s best player getting to grips with the world’s lightest boot.

Cristiano Ronaldo debuts the Mercurial Superfly as Man Utd look to reach the Quarter Finals of Europe’s elite club competition. But he won’t be alone. Zlatan Ibrahimovic will also be wielding his own Superfly.

Catch the Superfly tonight at Old Trafford.

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Superfly’s Super Debut

ManishTilwani — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:59:31 GMT

A Premier League hat-trick in his brand new Mercurial Vapor IVs. A World-first Mercurial SL strike on the biggest of European nights. And now a soaring header in his very first competitive match wearing the new Mercurial Superfly boots. With a hat trick of debut goals in the last three incarnations of his favourite footwear, no one seems to know how to push their new boots to the limit quite like Cristiano Ronaldo.

CR7 knew the World’s gaze would be on him for Manchester United’s crunch match with Inter Milan, so it was no surprise when he rose to the occasion within the first five minutes to win the crucial corner that put the Red Devils’ noses in front. And with the second half only minutes old, Cristiano sent the United faithful into raptures – and the tie beyond doubt – with a clinical header from Wayne Rooney’s exquisite chipped pass.

As the Old Trafford scoreboard flashed 2:0, another message was being broadcast around the globe from the feet of the World Player of the Year: the Superfly has well and truly arrived.

CR7 vs Zlatan: Superfly Face-Off

ManishTilwani — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:09:09 GMT

The lightning-fast feet of Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will light up one of the biggest games of the season as two of Europe’s elite clubs clash head-on.

And to give their game an injection of turf-burning speed, CR7 and Zlatan will be the first players in the world to wear the new Mercurial Superfly.

The boot is the product of obsessive design and development over the last 10 years of speed. Revolutionary Flywire technology at the heart of the Superfly make it even lighter and faster – giving both players deadly pace. Never before has the evolution of a boot been such big a part of an athlete’s onfield armoury.

With 15 goals each already this season, CR7 and Zlatan have a total of 30 strikes between them. And from the moment they lace up their Superflys for a double European debut, the race for number 31 is on.

It’s all on the line.

The History of Speed - The Mercurial SL

ManishTilwani — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:52:56 GMT

The designers and engineers at Nike HQ had done it before, and in 2004 they were asked to do it all over again. Their brief was as simple and as ambitious as ever: stop at nothing to create the fastest football boot the world had ever seen.

Four years later, the 100% carbon fibre Mercurial SL concept boot made its debut in Europe’s biggest club match, gracing the feet of Cristiano Ronaldo as he rose to head home Manchester United’s only goal in the European final of finals. Debuting the carbon fibre upper with a pink swoosh, Cristiano Ronaldo bagged his record-breaking 42nd goal of the season, helping his team to victory in Moscow.

A carbon fibre plate. An injection moulded outsole. A carbon fibre upper, hand-moulded in Italy. No corner was cut in the making of this boot, no expense spared. As CR7 showed on that memorable Moscow night, the only things getting trimmed were the hundredths of a second it takes the very best players to get to the ball, strike it, and run to their teammates to celebrate a hat trick of European titles.

The History of Speed - The Mercurial Vapor IV

ManishTilwani — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:44:28 GMT

It’s the first rule of working as a Nike designer: never believe those who say you can’t improve on perfection. After years of development work – and the input of Mercurial athletes from R9 himself to the latest brilliant Brazilian – the Mercurial Vapor IV is living proof that the definition of ‘perfect’ never stops changing.

When the seal was broken on Cristiano Ronaldo’s new shoebox in January 2008, you could hear the groans from defenders all over the world. The most in-form player on the planet was hard enough to stop, without adding a new weapon to his arsenal – and it took CR7 a mere 88 minutes to sear his orange peel Vapors into the fans’ memories with his first ever Manchester United hat trick. Five months and 20 goals later, CR7’s boots contained the first winger ever to win the European Golden Shoe, and the seventh consecutive Merc wearer to take the title of English Premier League top scorer.

Everyone knows a boot is only ever as good as the foot inside it. And with the likes of Ronaldo, Zlatan, Drogba, Robinho, Pato, Ribery, and Walcott, all donning the MVIV, it’s clear that this boot is as good as it gets.