U.S. national team striker Jozy Altidore is back in the United States as he gets ready for the upcoming pre-World Cup training camp. He found some time to shoot a commercial for ESPN, a commercial he unveiled on Twitter.
Enjoy:
Altidore is in the New York area this weekend and will be signing autographs at the adidas Sport Performance Store in Manhattan (610 Broadway) from 12:30pm to 2pm. Wristbands will be given out to fans for the signing starting at 8 a.m.
I agree – those that say they haven’t seen promotion (and I should add: GOOD promotion – a few ads that’ve sent shivers down my spine) of the WC on ESPN haven’t been watching. It’s non-stop.
I think maybe its just that you hate SC…
lol nice. haven’t seen a post from you in a while– maybe i just missed them… in case you’re serious: it’s an old fashion post meeting shirt exchange.
“Hey, good meeting.” takes off jersey.
“Oh… right.” undoing tie. “It’s an italian shirt.”
“Yeah, it’s nice.”
gasp! what? the new jerseys are way better. my only complaint about them is that i wish they would have done a red sash… way better than the “I’m not really one color with red bars… i’m white and grey with red bars”
Due to copyright laws, I cannot view this in Germany thanks to ESPN. What did Jozy do to the guy, head butt him?
Indeed.
Also: Sportscenter has two NBA commercials that immediately come to mind.
1.) Scott Van Pelt steals Lebron’s Chair.
2.) Lebron is trying to fix a paper jam in the copier.
In comparison, winning Josh Elliot’s Italian Shirt seems pretty glamorous.
better than the ugly new jerseys
some people are just hard to please. give it a rest.
am I the first one to notice the old jersey? kinda takes the shine off.
exactly, this is completely in style with their other ads.
It’s a good thing that soccer stars get treated like basketball or whatever stars and made to do goofy things.
stop whining folks
why?
the custom of taking off one’s shirt to celebrate a goal – is actually pretty widely understood even by non-soccerfans, thanks to the ladies getting in on the act too
trading shirts, most will figure it out
buncha whiners. ESPN likes to do ads that look like inside jokes. that’s the point.
That Kobe commercial you are talking about is made and marketed BY THE NBA, not ESPN. So go whine about MLS. You probably already do that seeing as how you wrote almost a one page article about nothing. Blah!
Are you talking about the Arnold Palmer one where he mixes the drink himself? that one’s awesome.
Now i’m gonna have to explain this to all my non-soccer loving friends.
I cant find the ” Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Jozy Altidore, Oguchi Onyewu: Welcome to South Africa, this is the World Cup” commercial. Those were the best to me
Sorry guys…for some reason the cut and pastes dont work…but believe me…there are a bunch of commercials. Three with Bono…
ESPN not promoting the World Cup?!?!? There is a SA 2010 commercial at least every hour during the non-peak hours…and multiple times in an hour over the weekend.
Heck, I have seen no less than four different ESPN SA 2010 commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=BoxaXtxeFxg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=bWqzenAKy00&feature=related
My favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=yfpngHyiRZc&feature=related
A different and longer version:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=CiyhrVgQ6oo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlBSlyU8xY
I know there are more….
Hey guys, ESPN has been promoting the crap out of the World Cup….across all of its platforms almost non-stop.
Why all of the hate? They have hired experienced announcers, are sending 70 people to SA, are promoting the WC internally and almost forcing their entire staff to get involved in the event.
Go cry somewhere else sir.
Great comment on Youtube.
“PaulBrown07 Like in 1950, a Haitian American is gonna score the game winning goal…Mark my words…Go JOZY and GO USA :-D”.
I think soccer, ahem, football fans will enjoy this but 98% of America is gonna have no clue what’s going on. I personally think it’s pretty darn funny, but I also feel as though ESPN should have gone with something that more people will understand.
I still disagree … When ESPN plays the slow motion, black and white commercial of the inbound to Kobe with the dramatic piano music playing and a defender draped all over him and he rises up and delivers the game winner … The crowd goes wild, the players mob him, he holds one finger up in triumph, and it makes people think “that it freakin awesome” (casual bball fan or not). It makes little kids want to grow up to be basketball players and hit that shot.
The media has a HUGE impact on sport and how it’s viewed. When the guy looks at Jozy like ‘I don’t get it, I’m reluctant to give you my shirt, and you’re akward/strange/foreign/I’m getting a bad vibe, it turns the casual fans off.
If you don’t belive MEDIA doesn’t matter to soccer, then you must never read Soccer By Ives. Ives breaks the greatest stories in the sport, and we get to talk about/promote how COOL the game is.
Just watch sportscenter … when there is a great goal in the top ten the commentators are like ‘ok whatever, he kicks it and it goes in,’ but when they talk about a baseball ‘web gem’ (oooo woooww) they build it up as the greatest play in sports history (even though we see the diving catch a million times a season).
I still say SC hates soccer. ESPN gives the game its due, but SC and its commentators hate it. But that’s just my opinion ..
Yeah, I’m blocked as well. This makes no sense to me. Wouldn’t ESPN want people to see their advertising wherever they are, especially since it’s at no cost to ESPN?
who cares?
I don’t get the effing golf jokes.
Absolutely loved this.
Who cares if someone doesn’t get it. We get it, the world cup is about us.
I guess …
I can’t help but feel that a lot of people are letting their hatred of ESPN get in the way of the commercial which is pretty funny.
My mom didn’t get the commercial, but she liked it when I explained it. If you think a commercial is going to turn people on/off to soccer, I think Soccer is in a worse spot than we thought.
They’re promoting the WC like they promote other sports. They shouldn’t because Soccer isn’t other sports and so yeah their efforts seem misguided.
I think we should just be glad that a major network is airing the cup.
I think the fact that many non soccer fans might not “get it” makes it that much funnier.
If you don’t like this commercial you’re crazy. its hilarious!
You’re wrong Jim. Sportscenter hates soccer, and they just proved it with this weak sause commerical. They managed to screw up one of the greatest traditions of respect in international soccer. F-
None! SPORTSCENTER HATES SOCCER!! This doesn’t help at all. What a waste! ESPN has done a piss poor job of promoting the WC! I’ll grade them at an F! Less than one month away and I haven’t seen any kind of comercial promoting the team. Discraceful.
i disagree.
many of my friends are huge sports fans. some of their vacations center around visiting a series of baseball parks. others travel to away games for their favorite football teams. yet, they don’t even know who their local soccer team is (red bulls). they dont even know what makes a throw-in, corner kick, or goal kick! landon who? clint? clint eastwood?
face it, soccer is still a very minor sport in the big picture. that being said, i love the commercial. very funny.
if Jozy is in the ESPN offices on June 3, I’m going to be miffed!
OK people chill out with the “non-soccer fans will NOT get why they are trading shirts” crap. the Majority of people who watch ESPN in the first place know sports even the ones they don’t watch, they will have no trouble understanding the commercial. I know not a lot of Americans care that much about soccer by they are not oblivious to it, JESUS CHRIST!
Lame. ESPN blocks its YouTube videos to viewers in the UK, even though I can watch old This is SportsCenter commercials on the ESPN website. Damn the ubiquity of YouTube!
yeah, i was thinkin the same thing
agreed. non-soccer fans may not get it. they might think some man-love is about to go down!
Yeah, right before he left for England.
Sportscenter commercials are always pretty funny, but I agree that not many non-soccer fans will get why they’re trading shirts.
agreed, he needs to get his act together.
Finally this commercial showed up! Jozy tweeted about shooting it a long time ago. I wanna say before he joined Hull.
Jozy.. pick up your game. We need you this summer.
Yah, i see it now, i think it was my internet acting up for a second, thanks Ives
It was pretty funny btw
That is HILARIOUS. XD
The video isnt comin up on here for me…..anywhere else where i can watch it?
(SBI-The video is there and showing up. Not sure why you can’t see it.)
yes i know the EPL is over, just saying
sooooo, how many non soccer knowing yanks are not going to get the commercial?
haha found time? easy to do with an early end to the season