Portugal Seeks Its Moment
13 October 2009
Football history can be divided into seasons, championships or games, but history is in fact written in short instants. Centimeters that determine whether a pass is good or bad, tenths of a second that give you the advantage or disadvantage. Key moments that separate victory from defeat.
Portugal have 90 minutes before them to seek these instants against Hungary and to get on the road to qualify for South Africa.
How many instants fit in a match?
Business As Usual
16 September 2009
When all eyes are on you, what do you do?
If you're Cristiano Ronaldo, you do what you've always done.
Just 27 minutes into his European debut, he fired in a trademark free kick. Then added another in the second half.
Same again next time?
Reset the scoreboards: The Spanish Le ...
30 August 2009
What has happened so far is past tense. We must forget about past titles, classification rankings or losses. All scoreboards are reset.
The 09/10 season was a milestone, but the League is the League again, a place, where the world’s best players compete to achieve victories.
Cristiano Rona ...
My Expectations are Greater than Yours
07 July 2009
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.
Th ...
The Superfly: a hat-trick of innovati ...
01 April 2009
Look out defenders, Mercurial Superfly is coming. And it’s fast. The fastest boot in football is built on three key innovations.
Flywire technology provides the greatest stability from the lightest materials. Ultra-efficient dual density studs, give total traction at defence-beating s ...
The History of Speed - Mercurial Vapo ...
10 March 2009
If the first two incarnations of the Mercurial were all about R9, the Mercurial Vapor II was the boot that announced CR7’s arrival at the highest level. While the original ‘Phenomenon’ was routinely slotting home 20-odd goals a season in La Liga, his Portuguese namesake was ...