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The pick of the week's best football boots from across the globe.

Global Boot Spotting - 07/10/13

Global Boot Spotting - 07/10/13
The pick of the week's best football boots from across the globe.



On a week before the International break rudely interrupts the season we take a look at the boots and players that have caught our eye in the last seven days. Boot switches, custom colourways, limited edition releases, you know the drill...

Nicolas Anelka (West Brom) Nike HyperVenom

After wearing an old adidas F50 model last week Nicolas Anelka was back in the HyperVenom as West Brom drew with Arsenal on Sunday. The Baggies front man must have been sold by the new Hi-Vis colourway as his F50's have gone back into the archive for the time being.

 

Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace) NikeID HyperVenom

Yannick Bolasie loves an alternative boot choice. We've seen him churn out the Nike GS and more recently an old PUMA v1.11 boot but now the Palace man has been busy on NikeID designing a custom pair of HyperVenoms in bright blue which he wore at Anfield on Saturday.

 

Julian Draxler (FC Schalke) miadidas Predator LZ

One spot that nearly went unnoticed, Julian Draxler was seen wearing a pair of miadidas Predator LZ boots. Draxler has joined up with international team-mate Mats Hummels for an adidas campaign where fans are asked to guess the colours of their recently designed miadidas boots which will be worn over the coming weeks.

 

Marcelo (Real Madrid) adidas F50 adizero

Marcelo, as with all of adidas' signed F50 players is currently wearing the electricity colourway but the Real Madrid full back looks as if he's kept the laces of his previous infrared adizeros and laced them up on the current model to give them a slightly different feel.

 

Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) PUMA evoSPEED 1 Ducati SL

Albert Adomah, like Bolasie, is no stranger to boot spotting. The Middlesbrough winger has previously been spotted wearing the limited edition PUMA v1.815 Ferrari boots but this weekend Adomah slipped into another of PUMA's collaborations, the evoSPEED 1 Ducati SL.

 

Willian (Chelsea) Nike Mercurial Vapor IX

Willian marked his first Premier League appearance with a goal by unleashing a ripsnorting thunder rocket past Norwich. The £30 million winger was wearing Nike's new Hi-Vis Mercurial to help clinch Chelsea's first league away win of the season.

 

Rhayner (Fluminese) adidas Nitrocharge 1.0

Fluminese's Rhayner has given his red Nitrocharges a blackout vibe and nearly had us thinking they might have been an original prototype but the close up shows he still needs to brush up on his colouring skills. Still, it's hard to argue that a blackout adidas Nitrocharge doesn't look good.

 

Chris Lines (Port Vale) adidas Predator LZ SL

Everybody get up.. If Port Vale fans don't sing his name to the tune of Blurred Lines they're missing a trick here. Anyway, the Vale midfielder was wearing the adidas Predator LZ SL at the weekend, a boot that has seen very little on pitch action but looks class. The stripped down Pred is lighter that the standard version weighing in at just 199g and Lines has topped his pair off with some RBGF laces in support of gay footballers.

 

Callum Kennedy (AFC Wimbledon) adidas Predator adiPower

Callum Kennedy obviously isn t a fan of the Predator LZ as he remains in the launch colourway of the adiPower model released in 2011. Some players like to find a boot they feel comfortable in and stick with it rather than chopping and changing and for Kennedy it could well be a case of 'if it's not broke, don't fix it'.

 

Jacob Butterfield (Middlesbrough) miadidas F50 adizero

Middlesbrough was the place to be for boot spotting this week as Jacob Butterfield joins Adomah in the pick of the boot action. The Boro midfielder was created a unique pair of white/gold adidas adizeros. Putting gold on your boots might come across as a bit big time but we can't deny they look decent.

 

Daniel Braaten (FC Copenhagen) Nike HyperVenom

Another player who has been busy disguising his boot is Daniel Braaten who looks to have coloured in his Nike HyperVenoms to give them the blackout treatment. Unfortunately for Braaten it was his boots that grabbed our attention rather than his team's performance as FC Copenhagen took a bit of pounding at the Bernabeu in midweek.

 

If there are any players boots that you've spotted and think we should feature, mail us at: u2us@soccerbible.com putting 'Boot Spotting' in the subject field.

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