DIRT IS GLORY
Brand
DIRT IS GOOD | OMO
Entrant Agency
FRANK
Category
Entertainment Lions for Sport
Award
Bronze
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Case Study Details
Dirt Is Good's Saffron Inkster tells of the amazing engagement their partnership with Arsenal received for the series "Dirt Is Glory".
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football. n Brazi's varzea, this culture is everywhere, yet largely invisible.
The challenge was to turn OMO's bel into a sport entertainment
‘experience that bridged these two worlds, transforming real fan culture
into something people would choose to watch, follow, and share.
In Brazil, we found amateur teams across the country named after
cultural truth: football identity doesn’t belong to clubs; it belongs
to the communities who recreate it. We tumed this into a global
sports story. OMO, Arsenal FC. and KondZila brought together eight
of these grassroots teams to compete in the OMO Varzenal Cup,
{for a once in a lifetime opportunity: playing the final at the Emirates Stadium,
Their journey became Dirt ls Glory, a sports docuseries that celebrates
grassroots football in a global stage, without losing its authenticity.
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The series was filmed by KondZila, the most powerful voice a
of favela culture, with over 68 milion subscribers on YouTube. It folows ; ‘
‘each team from their communities to London, capturing real characters, a
rivalries, and local identity, with real stakes, real people, and real pride fa
at its core. Blending raw varzea football with the scale of global sport,
the docuseries of 5 episodes broke all records of the biggest
Latin American YouTube Channel, turning a sponsorship into
a global entertainment property.
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