If you’re a fan of scooters or of soccer, this may very well be the best ad ever.

And if you’re a fan of both, it almost certainly is.

As someone commented elsewhere:

There are a hundred subtle in-jokes: Note the German players are riding german scooters (If the resolution was better, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Spaniards were on Motovespas and the French on AMCAs, if the resolution was better), the music (”Get a Bloomin’ Move On” by Quincy Jones) is from the original “The Italian Job,” about a heist exploiting the traffic jam during an Italy-England match in Milan. The shots of Beckham and the other british players merging into traffic with the French is right out of the “road to Brighton” scene in Quadrophenia.

Way to go, Adidas!

Thanks to The Scooter Scoop for discovering this.