More of this, please One of the more frustrating aspects of the modern market is that there has not been enough value for money boots. However, the past few years have seen the rise of brands like Sokito and the release of boots like the adidas Icon II. While Nike has often stood above its […]
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Foundational The Swoosh had a lot of work to win customers back after the Tiempo Legend 10 failed so badly. While some people certainly found reasons to enjoy the boots, the change to the synthetic Nike Skin meant that the Legend 10 had an uphill battle. It can be understood why Nike decided to change […]
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Comfort over all There has always been something unique with Puma’s Japan only models, especially in regard to their touch silos. Puma has often offered hard ground specific models with softer uppers or even made in Japan models in order to make space for themselves in the Japanese market. While not as successful as years […]
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High Value Something that I have not done enough over the years is reviewing the non-Japan Elite models of Mizuno boots. There are some exceptions, like the Monarcida Elites, but for the most part I have stayed away. Part of this is financial, but also because we often do not have the Elite models on […]
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So close but… Mizuno’s Alpha series has cemented itself as one of the best alternative speed boots on the market, with the One and the Two both having their fans. While the Alpha 2 Japan won a lot of praise from boot heads overseas, in Japan the boot struggled from being too over the top […]
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Excellent Hummel has almost no presence in the global football market as a whole these days, but the brand has a small, but reasonably successful, following in Japan. Hummel Japan is actually run by a brand called SSK, which owns the license for Hummel in Japan. Through this licensing agreement, Hummel has a lot of […]
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Bargain TLSS have been making a nice niche for themselves in market over the past year. This is mostly because the brand has made it a focus to offer a lot of tech and quality in their boots for prices that are far lower than elite boots from other brands. Not every boot has managed […]
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Competitive Every year I feel like we surely cannot have any more releases than the previous year and every single year I am proven wrong. There has been an absurd amount of releases this year, and I honestly believe that if around half of them were not released, we would not have lost anything important. […]
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Brilliant People have been asking for ages for Sokito to release their popular Scudetta with an AG outsole variation and the company seemed to take their time in fulfilling these requests. However, they had good reasons as they wanted to make sure that their AG outsole was not just good, but that it was the […]
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Strange Over the past couple of years adidas has managed to put themselves front and center with the return of a Predator with a foldover tongue. Such a simple addition would not have had as much impact by itself, but the fact that the Predator 24 was so good and then adidas managed to do […]
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