Zinedine Zidane has made no secret of his admiration for Steven Gerrard (”Is he the best in the world? He might not get the attention of Messi and Ronaldo but yes, I think he might be”), so it is fitting that an animated likeness of the Frenchman goes off in search of the Liverpool captain in a new advertising campaign for a stripey German sportswear company.
We really like this clip but have noticed one obvious error - shouldn’t the backpack on young Stevie G’s back have an Everton crest on it?
A certain German sportswear manufacturer is promoting its new kit designs with a series of viral videos from various Premier League training grounds: last week we saw Michael Ballack wearing Chelsea’s new Robocop-themed home shirt, and now we see Xabi Alonso sporting Liverpool’s new away strip.
We’re not too keen on the Chelsea kit, but do like the Liverpool one - particularly how the shoulder stripes go right up to the neckline. It’s a definite improvement on the prototype we showed you in March.
Adidas pays footballer and b’baller to dick around
Remember 2008? Nobody cared about Lady Gaga and her indifferent attitude to trousers, Twitter wasn’t lowering office productivity on a global scale and David Beckham was still welcome in the United States of America.
Before he tried to escape from the land of hope and glory, Mr B filmed an Adidas advert that featured Missy Elliot, The Ting Tings, Katy Perry and loads of other terribly important people at a ‘house party’.
The German sports clothing manufacturer have since released a clip of the Milan loaner mucking around in the driveway with Boston Celtics behemoth Kevin Garnett. Instead of testing each other at their respective sports, Beckham and Garnett devise a Baseketball-style hyrbid of football and basketball. If the editing is to be believed, Beckham comes away looking like the coolest man on earth, while Garnett’s skills do not match up to his ability to shout slogans.
While filming an Adidas advert, Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack was aiming to put a ball through a hoop, but instead hit what Bild describe as another gentleman’s “fun centre.”
It’s possible that this is a deliberate mistake for the sake of making a hilarious viral, but then Adidas would have had to recruit for a “stupid man willing to risk future fatherhood by getting pelted in the knackers by world class footballer.” We doubt there would be too many takers.
Credit may be terribly crunchy for most of us at the moment, but Frank Lampard clearly hasn’t had to start doing his weekly shop at Aldi yet.
Instead of preparing for his trip to Hull, the Chelsea star spent some time earlier this week checking out some vintage Ferraris at a London auction. The nippy little red number costs £3.6m, or as Lampsie may consider it, a mere 28 weeks worth of wages.
Top marks to him for avoiding the footballer cliche of buying a Land Rover Sport (although he probably already has three), but what’s with the casual look? Either he came straight from training, or a certain sportswear manufacturer insisted he was snapped in their gear (see more about my Adidas conspiracy at the bottom of this post).
See another picture of Frank admiring some heavy metal after the jump…
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