Titled ‘Family Reunion’, here’s the official adidas FIFA World Cup commercial along with all the advert’s music and football player cast list details.
Adidas World Cup Commercial Cast
In order of appearance, the names of the football players starring in this adidas World Cup advert are:
Jude Bellingham – Borussia Dortmund and England midfielder.
Pedri – Barcelona and Spain midfielder.
Karim Benzema – Real Madrid and France striker.
Lionel Messi – PSG and Argentina forward.
Son Heung-Min – Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea forward.
Achraf Hakimi – PSG and Morocco full-back.
Serge Gnabry – Bayern Munich and Germany winger.
Stormzy – British rapper.
The ad begins with Jude Bellingham walking down the stairs with his luggage while Pedri looks through the fridge. We then see Karim Benzema eating a bowl of ‘Indigoooooals’ football breakfast cereal before Messi appears playing table football, or foosball, against his younger self.
In the next scene, Son Heung-Min is listening to music on his record player then Achraf Hakimi is doing a puzzle against the clock before Serge Gnabry chooses what clothes to pack from his vast closet. Adidas’ ad then concludes with this family of professional soccer stars boarding a bus driven by British hip-hop artist Stormzy.
What’s the World Cup adidas commercial song?
Advert Music: Live Is Life.
Artist: Opus.
Stream or download from Amazon or Amazon UK.
Year of Release: 1984.
The song playing in this FIFA World Cup adidas commercial is a tune titled ‘Live Is Life’ which was recorded by the Austrian pop-rock band Opus. You can watch a performance of the track in this video from Opus’ YouTube channel:
Featuring the lyrics “Na, na, na, na-na”, Live Is Life was originally released as a single back in 1984 from the group’s fourth studio album ‘Up and Downand’ and became a hit tune in many European countries, including number 6 on the UK chart. The song also reached number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100.