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Tilt the balance to Nike after World Cup 2010 suggest the violent attack of Adidas

The war in Iraq is quit, however, even World Cup is ending, the war between Nike and Adidas still continues in football area. From the producing of Football Shoes, Nike has never stop exceed Adidas-the best football shoes in the world. Begining in football field, the war has expanded to business area.

Before beginning of World Cup, Nike is occupy basketball field in collage, 52 of the 65 teams in the 2010 NCAA March Madness wore its ‘swoosh’ on their shoes. However, just like the slogan “Just do it”, Nike has changed their way to football field. Preparation for a long time, the producing of football shoes is the first war between Nike and Adidas. Reported Nike spend $1.7 billion in sales of its core brand soccer gear and equipment in 2008. Its German rival, meanwhile, brought in $1.6 billion at the current dollar-euro exchange rate. But despite Nike’s recent, well-played sponsorship deals, Adidas has an edge with contracts to supply 12 of the 32 teams competing in the World Cup this year. No other company can claim such a high number.

In the beginning, it seems that Adidas is more active, but after the listing of nike Mercurial Vapor for 2010 World Cup, Nike become the biggest winner in the business area. Researching for a long time, according to the report of doctors, Nike company tested new nike Mercurial Vapor from time to time. Testing for the speed is nike’s first theme. This new Mercurial Vapor is the continues of Nike speed myth, the inside technology is the highlight of Nike which can increasing speed. It is reported that revolutionary “TPU/Pebax” materials, and the Nike Vapor TD pattern are all features of this superior cleat that is geared to create stable traction and provide excellent ankle support. According to the official Nike store, this shoe is “Marshall Faulk’s shoe of choice” and it is “designed for the serious football player”. For this new shoes, Nike’s so-called ambush ads have generated a lot more buzz. Nielsen found that Nike’s “Write the Future” ad helped it gain twice as much attention on blogs and social network sites. Initially launched online on May 22nd, it features Wayne Rooney of England and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal. As the hot of Cristiano Ronaldo among football fans, it is no wonder that Nike’s new ads played great effect for saling this new shoes.

After the nike ads has since been viewed over 14 million times on YouTube alone and over 29 million times on all web platforms. In contrast, Adidas launched its ad featuring David Beckham and Snoop Dogg last week. And so far, it has only received around 3 million hits. However, Adidas is not satisfied with this, for the result, Adidas want new Adidas Soccer Shoes lead the future in World Cup 2010. The other way Adidas do is supplying FIFA – the international soccer federation – officials. And it should stay just ahead in its profitable soccer shoes business as well. Nike’s new premium Mercurial Superfly II shoes have nearly kept pace. But Adidas’ F50i currently has the lead. Adidias also spends about $71 million per year sponsoring World Cup teams while Nike totals only around $58 million. This do the effect, FIFA authorized the World Cup football use Adidas and also during football match, the advertisements on the football field take Adidas ahead from the behind. Also from market selling show that Adidas football shoes sale better than Nike.

With the great market temptation in 2014 World Cup, Nike and Adidas both are all step up preparations occupy a larger international market. The complaints of Adidas soccer ball give Nike ample room to score for the next World Cup in Brazil in 2014, made the situation more tense. Maybe the tilt the balance to Nike suggest the violent attack of Adidas.

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