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pupusa3000
28 Apr 2005, 06:44 PM
During the halftime of the Mex vs. Pol match on Telemundo, I saw a Coca Cola ad that went like this: The Mex national team plays in some game and scores a goal against a team and the stadium goes nuts. The team scored against is...take a guess...the U.S.
The team is obviously the U.S. as it is using copycat replicas of the kits the US nats used in WC2002. An american company showed this, and it gets better, as it fades into a Mex flag and it say in spanish "Apoyando el equipo de todos" :confused: . I could have sworn that was the name for the US nats in all spanish media I have seen. Now I know why Coca Cola did this, and it does not surpise me as the Mexicans in the U.S. is a market that spends money. It is just that it stings to see a company made in the US sellout like that for those dollars.
On the other hand we have Pepsi which is not a sponser of US soccer but is indirectly involved with the sponsership of MLS. I have never seen a Pepsi ad in spanish do something like that Coke ad did yesterday.
Therefore I have concluded that I shall never spend another dime on the devil that is Coca Cola, and place my dollars in the coffers of Pepsi, a real american company that does not sellout (yet anyways :o ) and supports american soccer in the form of the MLS sponsership:cool:.

poorly written rant...over!

MUTINYFAN
29 Apr 2005, 11:57 PM
Mexicans love Coke, I believe they have the highest per capita consumption of Coke in the world.

Brrca Fan redded
30 Apr 2005, 05:59 AM
Mexicans love Coke, I believe they have the highest per capita consumption of Coke in the world. I hope you're talking about the liquid kind.

billf
02 May 2005, 08:45 PM
This is one of the laziest arguements I've ever read on Big Soccer.

MUTINYFAN
04 May 2005, 04:32 PM
So what do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi?

Anteaters FC
04 May 2005, 07:19 PM
So what do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi?

RC.

As for rahezy's rant: it's called capitalism. Loyalty doesn't enter into the equation. Besides, they aren't called multinationals for nothing...

subbuteo
04 May 2005, 07:26 PM
Mexicans love Coke, I believe they have the highest per capita consumption of Coke in the world.

the other is Maradona's household.

Dan Loney
04 May 2005, 09:01 PM
Boy, this takes me back....so around the Gold Cup 1998 final, we designed this ad campaign for Coca-Cola for Mexico. It would be a father and son at a big match, and dad has just bought his son his very first Coca-Cola at a game. The kid looks up at his dad admiringly, then launches the Coke at Sam's Army. A direct hit! The father has a tear of pride as he hugs his son.

Coca-Cola - la bebida aeronautica fantastica!

Horror Show
05 May 2005, 02:27 AM
the other is Maradona's household.

I got a good snort out of that. Believe me, the pun was purely unintentional.

geordienation
05 May 2005, 08:48 AM
Until Pepsi no longer sucks, I'm drinking Coke.

chayes
05 May 2005, 03:29 PM
So what do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi?

As a good little MLS fan, the answer should be Sierra Mist.

MUTINYFAN
05 May 2005, 09:14 PM
Doesn't Pepsi make Sierra Mist?

NattyBo
05 May 2005, 09:43 PM
Not to mention all the sh!t that coke perpatrates in colombia & other developing nations :X

aartef redded
27 May 2005, 11:00 AM
Coke will just end up shooting itself in the foot like it always does. Its new marketing campaigns have been horrendous.

Not to mention its products have cancer causing bromate in them-or do people have such a short memory?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3550063.stm
"Coca-Cola is to recall all bottles of its Dasani water in the UK, after levels of bromate were found to exceed legal levels.
The recall is an embarrassment for the drinks giant, which has faced criticism for selling what is treated and purified tap water."

SoccerTab
14 Aug 2007, 05:44 PM
Go to www.coca-cola.com (http://www.coca-cola.com/) and select US, and English. What are they advertising on the main page? -El tri, Mexican soccer. There is a link for Mexican soccer and European soccer. No US soccer link, even though you select US and English. Please everybody send coke a comment.

geordienation
14 Aug 2007, 11:54 PM
Go to www.coca-cola.com (http://www.coca-cola.com/) and select US, and English. What are they advertising on the main page? -El tri, Mexican soccer. There is a link for Mexican soccer and European soccer. No US soccer link, even though you select US and English. Please everybody send coke a comment.



Only if the comment is "I can't live without Diet Coke. I hate Pepsi to my very core."

Is that what you had in mind?


This was a retarded thread to begin with. It hasn't gotten better with age.

Closed.