Watch Cristiano Ronaldo star alongside Brazil legends Ronaldo and Ronaldinho in Nike’s incredible World Cup 2022 advert
NIKE have launched their World Cup 2022 advert starring some of football’s biggest names both past and present.
In keeping with many of Nike’s previous football advertisements, they recruited a star-studded lineup to help build hype for football’s biggest competition.
Put loosely, the plot of the advert, which runs for well over four minutes, revolves around a debate between scientists on who is a better player between Ronaldinho and Kylian Mbappe.
They then activate a time machine to bring together players from the past and present to face off with one another.
Chaos then descends as more and more players are brought into the “Footballverse”, giving Nike its own unique take on the multi-verse genre that has become popular in cinema in recent years.
Among the big names involved are legends of the past such as Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Edgar Davids.
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But it’s far from undersaturated with modern names too.
Cristiano Ronaldo – who has been making all the headlines this week – lines up alongside the likes of Mbappe, Virgil van Dijk and Kevin de Bruyne.
Phil Foden even gets a hilarious cameo roughly halfway through the video. There are big names from Women’s football too, including Leah Williamson, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd and Sam Kerr.
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Nike even blends fictional characters with their real-life pros, with the short-but-sweet cameo of Gouenji Shuuya from Japanese animation series INAZUMA ELEVEN.
The advert ends by teasing football’s next generation, with Cristiano Ronaldo Jr and Shane Kluivert both making appearances throughout the video.
It’s a Nike advert that’s likely to go down among their very best alongside classics such as “Winner Stays On”, “The Last Game” and “The Cage”.