Footwear | Speed

Nike Cleats | Mercurial

Nike operates 4 distinct silos for their soccer cleats. The by far most popular and best selling of those 4 silos is their mercurial line of footwear.

These Mercurial cleats are marketed primarily through Cristiano Ronaldo as the absolute most prominent of the player's endorsing the Mercurials.

CR7 Cleats | Mercurial Safari

Nike has been incredibly successful with their line of basketball shoes and apparel AirJordan. Even as of today this line easily outsells any other line of basketball shoes or apparel in the market. So why not replicate the success in soccer ? Ronaldinho had his R10 line and now the current Nike superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has his signature line of footwear and clothing CR7. So from time to time Nike released a cleat which is worn exclusively by Ronaldo.

Footwear | adidas Cleats | F50

adidas has 4 silos of footwear: F50, Predator, Nitrocharge, adiPure + the classics of World Cup and Copa Mundial.

The most prominent silo by adidas is by far the F50 footwear line. This is the line endorsed by SuperStar Lionel Messi among others.

M10 Cleats | F50 Messi line

DB means David Beckham and Becks used to have a dedicated line of footwear and apparel with adidas under the name / initials of DB.

Finally adidas has chosen to upgrade Messi to the same. A dedicated line of footwear and apparel.

The cleat comes complete with the name of Messi down the side and his personal logo to the top and at the heel.

Predator Cleats | adidas adipower line

Stylish engineering and effectful design.

The cleat has been made increasingly lightweight while the plastic pieces on the upper part of the cleat have been incresingly reduced in size and relevance.

Therefore the new modern adidas adipower cleat is incresingly a speed and lightweight piece and rather similar to F50 by and large.

HyperVenom | The new Neymar cleat | Nike

In American football the HyperVenom is already a well-known cleat which a rather large following. Now the HyperVenom makes inroads into the world of soccer.

The front figure of this line of footwear is Brazilian youngster and new kid on the block Neymar! Whether he will be able to catapult the shoes to fame and red hot sales figures is a different story.

Footwear | Comfort

adidas adiPure | SL the deluxe model

other than speed there is also the more traditional soccer cleat which is typically made in leather or a leather substitute and which gives the foot more breathing space and better comfort. Below is the luxury edition of the classical adidas adipure cleat: the adipure SL. SL means super light and it is indeed very lightweight and has a great feel to it.

Nike Tiempo | Legend the classical model

The classical Nike footwear line is called Tiempo and the top dog in this line of footwear is the Tiempo Legend cleat.

A comfortable and classy cleat made for maximal comfort and endurance.