Titled ‘Nike FC Presents the Footballverse’, Nike has just released this epic new commercial ahead of the FIFA Football World Cup.
Featuring a truly all-star cast of current and former soccer players, full line-up below, this Nike advert shows a bunch of mad scientists in Switzerland running an experiment to discover who really is the GOAT.
Alternatively titled the ‘GOAT Experiment’, Nike’s ad not only features top current players like Kylian Mbappé, Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden, Virgil van Dijk, and Cristiano Ronaldo, but there are also appearances from multiple younger versions of Brazilian Ronaldo, a younger Cristiano Ronaldo, plus Brazil legend Ronaldinho.
Nike Commercial Cast
To really get fans in the mood for the upcoming Football World Cup, this Nike advert stars these top past and present soccer players: Ronaldinho, Kylian Mbappé, Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Alex Morgan, Sam Kerr, Leah Williamson, Shane Kluivert, Virgil van Dijk Carli Lloyd, Edgar Davids, Phil Foden, and Kevin De Bruyne.
What’s the Nike Football commercial song?
Advert Music: Weird Science.
Artist: Oingo Boingo.
Stream or download from Amazon & Amazon UK.
Year of Release: 1985.
The song playing in this ‘World Cup’ Nike commercial is a tune titled ‘Weird Science’ which was recorded by the American new wave band Oingo Boingo and was released in 1985 from the group’s fifth album ‘Dead Man’s Party’.
Here you can watch the track’s YouTube official music video: