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Slate.com’s Seth Stevenson regularly reviews ads for the site’s Ad Report Card feature, and the reviews are often a chance to dissect why an awful ad is so awful. Yet he gave a glowing review to Nike’s now famous World Cup ad, giving it an A+. Reading his review, I learned a few things about the ad I hadn’t known before, like that the cheesy Italian TV show that Fabiano Cannavaro appears on is hosted by “Italy’s Elvis”, Bobby Solo; that the billboard above Wayne Rooney’s trailer is a parody of one he appeared in back in his native England, which was a bit contorversial; and that the whole cinematic spectacle was directed by Oscar-nominated Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The video can be viewed again here.
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