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Secret Tournament. " Secret Tournament " (also known as " Scorpion KO " or " The Cage ") was a Nike global advertising campaign coinciding with the 2002 FIFA World Cup. [ 1] With a marketing budget estimated at US$100 million, [ 2] the advert featured 24 top contemporary football players and former player Eric Cantona as the tournament "referee".
The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. [ 4] It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use.
Telstar was the first 32-panel black-and-white ball used in the FIFA World Cup finals. Only 20 were supplied by Adidas. A brown ball (Germany-Peru) and a white ball (first half of Italy-Germany) were used in some matches. The first polyurethane coated ball, making it waterproof and resistant to wear and tear.
Long before Nike’s Thursday release of the U.S. men’s national team’s 2022 World Cup kits, and even before the jerseys leaked last month, some USMNT players got to glimpse and even model the ...
It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. [ 6 ][ 7 ] The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as "Blue Ribbon Sports", by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971.
A petition was launched to persuade Nike into a U-turn and that momentum was boosted by England’s No. 1 during yesterday’s World Cup final as she saved a penalty before keeping England in a ...
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Costs of the tournament totalled $11.6 billion, [26] making it the most expensive World Cup to date, [27] until surpassed by 2018 FIFA World Cup which cost an estimated $14.2 billion. [28] FIFA was expected to spend US$2 billion on staging the finals, [ 29 ] with its greatest single expense being the US$576 million prize money pot.