There is no doubt that in the equipment of anyfootball player is extremely important is the quality of his shoes. 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 has a long history.As early as the beginning of the 19th century, when playing football, they began to use special footwear - boots. Most 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 on 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. Its latest development was shown in Madrid. This is football boots model Mercurial Superfly IV.
As officially stated by Mark Parker, Presidentcompany Nike, Superfly - this is a completely 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 realize their sports 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 fastest players.
For more than four years the company has been developing a modelMercurial Superfly, the upper part of which is an anatomical part, which reliably fixes the athlete's shin and creates a special comfort for the leg.
The application of this texture creates for the athletesensation 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 the implementation of the Flyknit technology isto place as little material as possible between the soccer player's foot and the ball, while touching it. The sole of these boots is made of soft carbonate, and its thorns are so that the player can develop the maximum speed while 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 what boots players play, and in fact at them at the championship in Brazil the known football player Cristiano Ronaldo, has spent all 3 matches.
ADIDAS shoes
Just before the World Cup in Brazil, in 2014year, the company Adidas has updated its line of football boots, which has the name Battle Pack. Recycled and already legendary boots Predator Instinct, giving them a rather bellicose color.
In addition to the appearance, the design of the boots 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,one is a gel panel. It is with its help that the shock of the ball is absorbed 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.
The Drive Zone is the most important boot zone, asit 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. Rubber the same surface helps to tighten the ball.
With 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 football players' boots. The photos give an opportunity to view these zones.
These boots also use technologyHybridtouch - footwear is lighter than leather by 40%, 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 updatedversion of the boots 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 everFITchanged his 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 an extremely 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 featureseries evoSPEED. To improve it, special changes have been 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.
It is often possible to see the players playing in thedifferent boots. At the World Cup, the 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 - pale blue, and onright leg - rich pink. In addition, football players' shoes are nominal. 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 inmulti-colored boots would not even be allowed on the field, taking it for violation of the established sports regulations. The boots of professional football players could only be of one 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 the referees and goalkeepers can wear a multi-colored uniform for the game.
And the breakthrough was made by one of the competing firms on the volumetric and tough sports goods market, which shod with Diego Godin, Sergio Aguero, and Cesc Fabregas.
The International Football Federation went tosignificant 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 firms).
Fans did not perceive the multicolored bootsuniquely. Many people do not like this innovation, as the colorful football boots are distracting from the game. Goalkeepers are also not very comfortable when the eyes of all the colors of the rainbow flashed before their eyes. But none of their opinions and did not think to ask when they introduced a new form.
