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Write The Future – Cristiano Ronaldo Statue

BLOG_MY — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:08:39 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

BLOG_MY — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:22:37 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

BLOG_MY — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:24:23 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

Cristiano plays even when he’s not playing

BLOG_MY — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:51:20 GMT

Injuries, recurring injuries, bans…all enemies of regular play. Moments of helplessness, at which any player would only be thinking about getting back on pitch.

But coming back isn’t enough. Just getting back on pitch means starting from where you left. And that’s unthinkable for Cristiano.

When he comes back he forces himself to go one step further. He’s the first to learn a lesson and the first to put it into practice.

He didn’t spend two weeks out of the game, but was two weeks in training, improving every aspect of his game. The result – 17 matches and 17 goals.

He comes back and nails it.

He makes the difference.

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101% Cristiano Ronaldo

BLOG_MY — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:03:54 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.

Back from the brink

BLOG_TH — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:47:16 GMT

They’ve done it. They made it tough for themselves in qualifying, but last night Portugal showed every ounce of their fighting spirit to book a place in next summer’s tournament.

The confidence, desire and determination of the 2006 semi-finalists proved decisive as they scored in the second half to make it 2-0 on aggregate.

No way back for Bosnia. No stopping Portugal. Next stop South Africa.

Ronaldo’s Rebirth

BLOG_TH — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:25:38 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.

Call it a rebirth or second life or the continuation of career, Ronaldo appears ready to write the next chapter. Taking deep breaths, wiping the sweat from our brows, we’ll all be watching, watching history.

My expectations are greater than yours

Nikefootball_malaysi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:41:31 GMT

With Manchester conquered, it’s on to Madrid.

Now the world’s most expensive player has been unveiled before an 80,000-strong crowd, it’s on to business.

For every single screaming fan in the Bernabeu, that means just one thing - snatching the title from Barcelona.

The £80million man is ready to launch his latest bid for supremacy wearing new, personally tailored black Mercurial boots. Don’t bet against him.

Relentless We March

BLOG_TH — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:36:51 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

Nikefootball_malaysi — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:48 GMT

How good?

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

That's how good.

Superfly’s Super Debut

BLOG_TH — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:26:44 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 gets Wired for Speed

BLOG_TH — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:26:28 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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The History of Speed - The Mercurial SL

BLOG_TH — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:09:55 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

BLOG_TH — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:02:43 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.

The History of Speed - Mercurial Vapor III

BLOG_TH — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:18 GMT

The facts speak for themselves: the Mercurial Vapor III took speed to a whole new level. Sleek as a sports car. Equipped with the traction of high performance tyres, for full-throttled changes of direction. Aided by an anatomical heel lock to hold feet moving quicker than ever.

Once the Nike lab had finished with their new baby, the MVIII was a full 0.45m ahead of the average football boot at the end of a 10-metre course. That’s the stride of a defender, the lunge of a tackle – or the handspan of the keeper whose despairing dive is a fraction too late. As R9 proved at the biggest tournament of 2006, that’s the difference between the good and the all-time great.

In his third massive international performance of a career spanning 12 years, Brazil’s Ronaldo overtook every great goalscorer in the pantheon of football by notching his 13th, 14th and record-breaking 15th goal on the world’s biggest stage.

Call it genius, call it ruthlessness, call it sheer belief – whichever way you tag R9’s striking performance, it was just another example of his Mercurial essence.