‘Shame on us’: Adidas boss admits nobody liked the World Cup’s sea of pink boots
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FRANKFURT, July 31 — Adidas today apologised for a surfeit of pink boots at the World Cup, saying that it was a coincidence that they were sported by a striking number of...
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Asked by AFP about the unusual uniformity of boot colours during a press conference on the company’s quarterly results, Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden said “it was an accident”.
“I think it’s a coincidence, and I hope it will not happen again,” he added.
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