ESPN has released their 2010 World Cup posters. Some of them are really awesome and others are just weird. A lot of them rely on a surprising amount of stereotypes like the Australian guy being half kangaroo or the Ivory Coast guys riding elephants, but all in all they are colorful, interesting and get us just a little more pumped for the arrival of the World Cup.
Thanks to World Cup Buzz.
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Cameroon
Chile
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Honduras
Italy
Ivory Coast
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
North Korea
Paraguay
Portugal
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Uruguay
USA
All 32 Teams
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those are sick!!!!
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F**k off,where is a Kosovo,Kosivo is a Serbia mf
Are you crazy,or are you stupid?!
First of all,what the fu*c are seagulls doing in Serbian picture?It should be eagles!
Second,where is Kosovo?Kosovo was,is and forever will be heart of Serbia!Less than 30% of states from all over the world recognized Kosovo’s independence,so Kosovo is STILL Serbia!70% is with us,so change the picture!
Third,it is Yugoslavia’s flag,not Serbian!
The picture that represents Serbia is mockery to Serbian and its nation.First,the map of Serbian state is not correct.It is missing its southern province.Second,the flag is completely wrong.It is old Yugoslavian flag and not Serbian.Third,Serbia has white eagles on its national coat of arms and not those gulls.
So, the ESPN should quickly remove it and correct the mistakes,especially this one with the map which shows the political bias of the ESPN when no other country is shown by its map,and especially not with the crippled one.
for proof to all that I am telling the truth:
for proof visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CountriesRecognizingKosovo.svg
so Kosovo is Serbia!
KOSOVO IS SERBIA!
KOSOVO IST SERBIEN!
KOSOVO JE SRBIJA!
Idiots!! Where is the Serbian Kosovo in Serbia flag???
all americanS are a idiots,KOSOVO IS A SERBIA FOREVER
Shame on you ! Are stupid or what ? Kosovo is Serbia, change pocture ! Soon as possible ! A put the eagles !
Serbia to final !
The map of Serbian state is not correct. It is missing its southern province.
Then, flag is completely wrong, it is old Yugoslavian flag and not Serbian.
Serbia has white eagles on its national coat of arms and not those gulls.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~serwgw/Resources/FlagSerbia.jpg
http://www.etriptips.com/wiki/images/1/1c/Serbia-map_%28Without_Montenegro%29.PNG
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this is retarded, we should sue you !!!
The map of Serbian state is not correct. It is missing its southern province.
Then, flag is completely wrong, it is old Yugoslavian flag and not Serbian.
Serbia has white eagles on its national coat of arms and not those gulls.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~serwgw/Resources/FlagSerbia.jpg
http://www.etriptips.com/wiki/images/1/1c/Serbia-map_%28Without_Montenegro%29.PNG
for milos.
first, your eagles is like seagulls, or worst.
second, be realistic, kosovo is from long time ago, independent.
have a nice day
Why are you doing this?
Nice posters. Greece has the best one, though. Spanish is also good.
Love the spanish poster. a few others are really creative…some are just plain weird eg Australia and a lil scary eg S Korea
This is a disgrace! This must be an act by Ustashi saboteurs against Serbians all around the globe and especially at home! Kme kme kme!!! :-(
Kosovo is Serbia !
Long live Russia !
Halo bre! Dok smo mi jeli viljuškom švaba i englez su cepali prasetinu na ruke, saće bre neki amerikanac da me uči.
Bre pa i Amerika je vekovna srpska zemlja!
kosovo is not serbia! and serbia won`t be in final. remeber last championschip? 4:0
Gde je bre Reka na ovoj slici?
Trebali su loptu da stave nasred Korza koa štu su golove zalepili na sever i jug Srbije.
From the poplar, from the poplar, to the straight mount, there are guards there are guards from general Drazs!
KBKK za ovo smijesno natjecanje? :kava:
ABN :kava:
Reka je srce Srbije!!!
Al što nas Srbe boli briga šta neki amerikanac misli. Ima da dođe vamo i da su uči i nogometu i civilizaciji
Blasfemija
I have no idea what these people are sayin, but they sound pissed!
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Mainstream media in the USA is under strict state control so this absurdity of drawing Serbia without her Kosovo & Metohija province comes as no surprise. 80% of the planet respects Serbia’s territorial integrity and abides by international law (UNSCR 1244).
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“Mainstream media in the USA is under strict state control so this absurdity of drawing Serbia without her Kosovo & Metohija province comes as no surprise. 80% of the planet respects Serbia’s territorial integrity and abides by international law (UNSCR 1244).”
COme on espn u can better thn that
Is someone doing this on purpose?Or is just THAT dumb?
Why insult Serbia with this picture? It’s really unfair.
Instead of Serbian flag, you put the flag of the federation that no longer exists.
Instead of white eagles, the Serbian national symbols, you put seagulls.
And you show a map of Serbia without part of its territory.
Why is it necessary to disparage any nation on this portal?
@Fisher
With good reason. Take a look at the Serbia’s picture. Pay attention to the area around the bird closest to the bottom of the image. According to Serbia and more than 94 other countries, that area (called Kosovo i Metohija) is her rightful part. On the other hand, USA and roughly 68 other countries say that Kosovo i Metohija is independent. UN has not recognized KiM as an independent state, nor did FIFA or UEFA (I’m saying this because this is a football/soccer article, no?) and the International Court of Justice in Hague is currently deliberating on the legality of KiM’s unilateral secession. Plainly said, it’s a very touchy subject for the Serbs.
Also, the artist/site has managed to make a few additional mistakes regarding Serbia. Those birds should be eagles (as on Serbia’s Coat of Arms), not seagulls or whatever those things are supposed to be. Also, the flag colors are wrong; it should be red-blue-white not blue-white-red.
Косово, Сербия!!!
Kosova është Serbi!!!
科索沃是塞尔维亚!!!
Le Kosovo est la Serbie!!!
Το Κοσσυφοπέδιο είναι Σερβία!!!
Kosovo ist Serbien!!!
Il Kosovo è Serbia!!!
Kosovo este Serbia!!!
Косово е Сърбия!!!
Kosovo is Servië!!!
kosovo adalah Serbia!!!
Kosova’nın Sırbistan’dan olduğunu!!!
Koszovó Szerbia!!!
קוסובו היא סרביה
Kosovo nije niti će ikada više biti Srbija. A što se tiče zastave – nije vam smetalo kad ste s njom kitili do nedavno dok ste imali koristi od toga?
Vi ste jedan mali iskompleksirani, ciganski i gubitnički narod.
Svaka čast onome tko je skicirao za Srbiju točno i činjenično stanje.
Osim toga – navedite mi bar jednog jedinog igrača s Kosova koji igra za Srbiju? Nema.
Zašto?
Zato što Kosovo NIJE Srbija. Pomirite se s činjenicama već jednom.
http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datoteka:Kosovo_relations.svg
As we see, all free and democratic World are recognized Kosovo.
Except countries whose oppress the some other nations within its borders like as Serbs oppress Albanians.
Like Spain who oppress Basques and Catalonians, or Slovakians whose have problems with Hungarians etc…
@Oliver
Milos Krasic je iz Kosovske Mitrovice. Mogao si malo da se raspitas pre nego sto pocnes da lupetas gluposti, mada od ustase nisam nista drugo ni ocekivao. I, ucini sebi uslugu, nauci da govoris engleski kako treba. Dovoljno je sto vas vasa premijerka bruka pred svetom. U tom pogledu ti si potpuno suvisan.
@oliver
tvoj komentar je stvarno ruzan , i iako svako ima pravo na svoje misljenje , mislim da lako mozes shvatiti da se ne moze tako generalizovati i nazivati pripadnike jednog naroda takvim imenima.
Takođe , ne mogu se sloziti sa tvojom tvrdnjom da su sve slobodne i demokratske drzave priznale Kosovo kao nezavisnu drzavu.Sa tvojim linkom sa vikipedije si recimo jasno pobio svoju tvdnju.
Takođe , pretpostavljam da nisi ekspert za politiku Spanije i Slovacke , pa se i tvoji komentari u vezi njihove politike prema juznoj srpskoj pokrajini ne mogu za ozbiljno uzeti.Ako vec tako dobro poznajes politiku ovih zemalja , probaj se kandidovati za ambasadora Hrvatske u njima , mislim da ces uspeti.Malo sale nije na odmet.hehe
Izvinjavam se ako cu te uvrediti , ali mislim da su zapravo tvoji komentari plod određenih kompleksa , koje ces nadam se izleciti , to barem nije tesko.
Ja recimo licno poznajem mnogo Hrvata , i pazi sad – sasvim normalno komuniciramo , i nikad me nijedan nije nazvao epitetima koje ti vezujes za srpski narod.
Ja se ne zavaravam , i znam da ima takvih iskompleksiranih pojedinaca kod oba naroda , ali zar se trebamo sa njima poistovjecivati , ili mozda treba biti normalan.Nije tesko biti fin , pokusaj.
P.S.
nadam se da ces navijati za Srbiju i Sloveniju na SP ;)
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Nice pistures !
P.S. Who cares Kosova except serbians? No one….
@burn
If it were a part of your country, wouldn’t you care? Of course you would. Wouldn’t you want the world to know about the injustice being done to your people? Again, of course you would. Just because it’s being done to someone else doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t care. Why? Because one day it might just happen to you and when it does, you will want all the support you can get (I’m talking of course about other nations and their people).
@ Bergues
Samo sam bio isprovociran srpskom kosovskom kuknjavom ovdje.
Nema ništa protiv Srbije, sasvim sam ravnodušan, ali je zbilja blesava tolika halabuka oko ČINJENICE da Kosovo nije više Srbija.
Što se tiče koje zemlja jesu, a koje nisu priznale Kosovo – karta je jasna.
Od Europskih i svjetskih slobodnih zemalja to nisu učinila jedino Slovačka i Španjolska i to isključivo zbog mogućnosti da im se slično dogodi, tj. da se i u njihovim državama oslobode narodi koje prisilno drže u okvirima svoji država.
Taking a break from Serbia for a sec :
Cameroon are the Indomitable Lions (awesome nick name)
Ivory Coast are the Elephants (which is why they are on the Elephants in the poster – it wasn’t meant to be insulting or stereotypical)
Nigeria are the Super Eagles
Ghana are the Black Stars
South Africa are called the Bafana Bafana (whihc roughly translates into “the Boys”)
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Look,
The birds look like Eagles drawn in the form of a cartoon. I f you dont want them to look funny change your name from the White Eagles to something easier to distinguish.
It is misguided to have your flag upside down in the Yugoslavian manner but I do think the artist was trying to use the form of your country in place of the cool coat of arms thing and that seems interesting.
Your capital and home stadium are both based in Belgrade so that seems good.
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As for the Kosovo matter I am guessing it is a bit touchy. I have read your comments and we dont care much about your country kind of like you dont care much for us. However these are ESPN posters made in the USA for the USA and the fact that you searched them out on the internet is your problem.
Unfortunately it does not matter how all of you Serbian’s feel about Kosovo and the fact that only 69 of 192 UN nations voted it as independent.
You know why?
Because the USA was one of those 69 UN nations.
Since ESPN and the poster maker are in the USA it kind of makes completely obvious sense that they would make the poster this way since we already agreed to respect Kosovo’s independence.
If you dont like ESPN and the USA go watch the World Cup on your own countries damn network!
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Also the people who write for this site should do the five minutes of research it takes to find out that every “stereotype” is actually due to the teams name or the teams stadiums name in the case of Mexico and Azteca stadium.
Yes in soccer or football some teams have nicknames.
Looking at the Serbian picture it looks like two eagles to me , maybe you should go look at what a seagull actually looks like .
All the pictures look awesome and i congratulate the artist , although the Australia one just looks weird if im being honest , 9/10 though
FU*K this SH*T! Slovakian!s nickname is Jondas and we ALSO DONT KNOW what is JONDAS :D THIS SUXS!!!!!!!!! We ARE “Repre” som go fu*k yourself ESPN!
Did someone ever recognized 10 legs to Cristiano Ronaldo? I don’t think so…
So, that poster of Portugal should be changed immediately…
:)
Who cares? Maybe if Serbia would be a little more successful on the world stage somebody from another country might give a s**t about them.
Slovenia and Japan’s are the coolest, Uruguay’s is the weirdest. It looks like a children’s television show that was cancelled for being way, way too creepy.
all these are crap.
The Ivory Coast team nickname is The Elephants. Using them is not a stereotype, but a nod to their name.
The Ivory Coast team nickname is The Elephants. Using them is not a stereotype, but a nod to their name.
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Agreed, also the Australian team’s nickname is the Soccerroos. So the kangaroo cartoon is also a reference to their name. The only stereotype I spotted was the Japanese one, I dont know if they have a team nickname having to do with samurai but if they dont, having an entirely non soccer realted sword wielding warlord as a poster is kind of stereotypical
Looks like somebody really, really wanted to make a tarot deck, then got stuck with the “lame” job of drawing World Cup posters instead.
cameroon’s got a pretty beast poster.
i think australia has the creepiest
Does it look like the guy from Paraguay is holding weed? Or is it just me?
The only stereotype I spotted was the Japanese one, I dont know if they have a team nickname having to do with samurai but if they dont, having an entirely non soccer realted sword wielding warlord as a poster is kind of stereotypical
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The Japanese team nickname is Blue Samurai.
n00b
Besides the Ivory Coast team being called “Les Elephants” and the Aussies “Socceroos”, the Cameroonians are the “Indominatable Lions” and the Nigerians are the “Super Eagles”. Mr Rack Em Up, I believe the Japanese are the “Blue Samurais” which is why the samurai in that poster is in blue. I like these posters, I think they’re well done :)
These are awesome. Love the UK one dragging the weight of ’66 and the Swiss one made me chuckle.
Hey… how can I buy one of these?
I agree with Jason… not my favourite style BUT at least they didn’t just run them through Photoshop. Kaitlyn: espn store or ebay for sure.
Why so many people hatin on the posters? I think they are great! It’s fun, it’s catchy and I think that was the point. Yes some are sterotypical, but that is what general world cup ads are going to be. I say get over it and enjoy what is left of the world cup. it’s a special event.
oh yeah, forgot to mention, the only thing that’s annoying is that it’s not easy to find it on ESPN.com
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