What are football boots

There is no doubt that the quality of his shoes is of the utmost importance in the outfitting of any football player. If you can play football equally well in any T-shirt or shorts, then the quality of the athlete's play depends directly on the footwear.

Football boots

Football shoes have a long history. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, when playing football, they began to use special footwear - boots. More often football boots were leather, with special thorns on the sole. They served to better grip the athlete's foot with a football field.

Available in our time, football shoes are made of artificial or natural leather, and sometimes with the use of special materials of artificial origin. This, for example, polyurethane and carbon.

Modern shoes are extraordinarily light, manufacturers try to make the game of football players as comfortable as possible. Periodically, in the market there are new products of the football equipment industry.

Football boots of the company NIKE

One of the world's leading manufacturers of sports boot is the company Nike. The latest development was shown in Madrid. This is football boots model Mercurial Superfly IV.

As Mark Parker, President of Nike, said, Superfly is an entirely new design, with which a huge leap in time was made. He is sure that it is in these boots that football players will be able to fully realize their sporting potential. The new model uses the latest technology Flyknit, and the shape of the shoes is essentially updated, especially taking into account the features of the game the most high-speed players.

For more than four years the company has been developing the Mercurial Superfly model, the upper part of which is an anatomical part that reliably fixes the athlete's shin and creates special comfort for the leg.

The use of this texture creates for the athlete a sensation of a bare leg. That is, he does not even feel shoes. In addition, in conjunction with the technology Brio, which is located at the top of the shoe of knitted cables, which make football players' shoes especially strong, the comfort that Nike products are famous for is achieved.

Flyknit technology

The meaning of implementing the technology Flyknit is to place as little material between the foot of the player and the ball, when it touches. The sole of these boots is made of soft carbonate, and its thorns are so that the player can develop the maximum speed when running. In addition, this boot model also has a fifth spike located on the heel, which gives the athlete additional stability. By the way, probably, everyone notices in which boots players play, and it is in them at the championship in Brazil, the famous football player Cristiano Ronaldo, spent all 3 matches.

ADIDAS shoes

Just before the World Cup in Brazil, in 2014, Adidas updated its line of football boots, which is called Battle Pack. Recycled and already legendary boots Predator Instinct, giving them a pretty warlike coloring.

In addition to the appearance, the design of the boot was changed. There was Comfort Frame - wear-resistant outsole, and in the model lethal zones, to improve the impact and touch the ball, used a rubber mixture.

Special zones for football boots

In addition to the main four zones, the boots had one more - a gel panel. It is with its help that the shock absorbs the impact of the ball when it is received in the air. The effect is not very large, but it is present and helps to handle the ball to the player.

Similar changes have touched other areas of football shoes, including First Touch and Dribble, located on the toe.

Zone Drive Zone - the most important zone of boots, as it affects the power of a football player. Zigzag look and soft top give extra grip to the ball during the impact and provide stretching in two planes. The rubber surface helps to tighten the ball.

With the Adizero F50, the difference is palpable - the impact force on the ball increases, although the applied force to the ball is the same. In addition, the new model - a special transparent sole, which makes the shoes more flexible.

Between the large spines on the sole is added a zone with small spikes. This is necessary to stop the ball and improve control of it and the football players' boots. Photos provide an opportunity to view these zones.

In these boots, too, Hybridtouch technology is used - footwear is 40% lighter than leather, and to lose its basic properties, you need to collect four times more water than leather. Weigh such boots only 280 grams.

Puma shoes

German company Puma has released an updated version of the boot Puma EvoSPEED 1.3. Studying the characteristics of the new football shoes, it becomes clear that the Puma EvoSPEED 1.3 is the preservation of the best possibilities of the Puma boots, along with the continuation of the evolution.

A single-layer material of the top of the boots, similar to the touch on natural leather, light and water-repellent, and GripTex improves the ability to control the ball in wet weather.

The main difference between these boots is that everFIT has changed its location. Earlier the design was on the inside, and now it is located outside. It is designed to improve the fixation of foot soccer player. Due to this change, the energy loss, which is transmitted from the foot to the plantar spikes, has significantly decreased, and consequently the player's acceleration and maneuverability has increased. Spikes on football players' shoes play a very important role.

If you compare the Puma evoSPEED 1.3 boots with the rest in this class, they have additional protection and give stability to the athlete's foot due to a special design.

It is stability that is the most important feature of the evoSPEED series. To improve it, special changes are made in the sole of the shoe. Update the line of Puma company can be seen on such well-known football players as Marco Royse, Radamele Falcao, Olivier Giroux, Sergio Aguero and others.

Often you can see players playing in different shoes. At the World Cup players of the Italian team were the most colorful. In the boots of different colors, goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, defender Giorgio Chiellini, striker Mario Balotelli played in the national team.

On the left leg - a pale blue color, and on the right foot - a rich pink. In addition, football players' shoes are personal. So, Balotelli played in the shoes of "Pia" (the name of his daughter from the famous model from Naples Raffaella Fico) and "SuperMario" - on his own behalf.

It's no secret that fifteen years ago a football player in multi-colored boots would not even be allowed to enter the field, having accepted this for violating the established sports regulations. Football boots professional footballers could only be of the same color, according to established rules. Previously, even the judges went to the field only in black. The famous goalkeeper Lev Yashin was even nicknamed in his time a black spider for his strict form. And now both judges and goalkeepers can wear a multi-colored uniform for the game.

And the breakthrough was made by one of the competing firms in the voluminous and tough sports goods market, which shod with Diego Godin, Sergio Aguero, and Cesc Fabregas.

The International Football Federation made significant concessions in the form of players, in large part for the sake of big earnings. It's no secret that huge amounts of money are paid for this. For example, Messi and Ronaldo have branded shoes (of course, different companies).

The fans did not perceive the multicolored boots unequivocally. Many people do not like this innovation, as the colorful football boots are distracting from the game. Goalkeepers are also not very comfortable when all the colors of the rainbow flashed before their eyes. But no one considered their opinion when they introduced a new form.