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As NPR’s Wendy Kaufman reports, Nike, a relative newcomer to soccer, is gunning for the Germany company whose name is practically synonymous with the game.

WENDY KAUFMAN reporting:

For Nike, soccer has become the Holy Grail. Nike is bigger than Adidas, but as Nike sees it, to truly be the number one sports brand in the world, you have to be number one in the world’s most popular sport.

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At Adidas’ North American headquarters near downtown Portland, serious play is part of the job. But mention Nike’s ambitions here, and you’ll get an earful from employees like Antonia Zaya(ph).

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KAUFMAN: The passion for soccer permeates everything inside the edgy high tech buildings here. A nine foot replica of Adidas’ new World Cup Ball dominates the lobby, along with a huge electronic clock, counting down the seconds till the start of the games.

More than two years ago, 200 Adidas employees were selected and given a task create new technology superior products for the World Cup.

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Mr. ZAYA: The chassis is simply inserted into the upper of the product. It slides in, and then it’s a simply screw in system that you screw into the upper. TUNIT is the iPod of the industry.

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On a recent afternoon at Nike’s sprawling, 176 acre campus in suburban Portland, a top high school athlete is blasting balls into the net as part of a field test for a new Nike shoe.

(Soundbite of soccer)

The company has come a long way in soccer since 1994, when it first decided to get serious about the sport. The company’s Dean Stoyer says, in the past 12 years Nike’s soccer
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KAUFMAN: And Nike, he says, doesn’t enter a fight unless it intends to win.

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Mr. PAUL SWANGARD (Managing Director, University of Oregon Warsaw Sports Marketing Center): Nike has gone very hard at the next generation, this idea of soccer crazed kids that are growing up in a new environment with a new media world, with new tastes in favorite teams and favorite athletes.

KAUFMAN: One of Nike’s favorites is the superstar of the Brazilian National Team, Ronaldinho. According to Nike’s Dean Stoyer, Ronaldinho embodies the company’s marketing theme, Joga Benito. It means play beautifully in Portuguese.

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What happens most, of course, is what happens on the field, whose gear gets seen the most. Nike is banking on the Brazilians to win, while the Germany company, Adidas, is pulling for its home team.

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