Nike Green Teams- Brasil vs Holland

The Brasil versus Holland match has been dubbed the 'Green Game', with Nike delivering enhanced performance with reduced environmental impact for the likes of Wesley Sneijder and Robinho. The jerseys are made entirely from recycled polyester, each one directly produced from up to eight recycled plastic bottles.

For this summer’s World Cup finals, the Nike kits are more lightweight and have been designed to keep players drier, cooler and more comfortable, allowing them to maintain an optimum body temperature and perform at their best on the pitch.

What's more impressive is that Nike have achieved all this with their environmental impact in mind. Nike’s fabric suppliers have sourced discarded plastic bottles from Japanese and Taiwanese landfill sites, and then melted them down to produce new yarn that was ultimately converted to fabric for the jerseys.

Holland player to watch:
Wesley Sneijder- The creative heart of the Dutch team, Sneijder has shown exceptional craft and vision in supplying Arjen Robben in the last two matches. He enjoyed a hugely successful campaign at club level and he appears desperate to prove a point following his release from Real Madrid last summer.

Brasil player to watch:
Robinho- Having been selected in a weakened Manchester City side against Scunthorpe at Glanford Park in January, few could have predicted Robinho's turnaround in fortunes. A loan spell at Santos provided him with regular football and restored his confidence, and he is again starting to look like the player who cost £32.5 million two years ago. His man-of-the-match performance against Chile was no flash in the pan, and he is likely to test the Dutch defence to its limits.