Adidas Thread [10] - all info, pics, questions here

I guess I can look on Getty, but I thought his adiPowers were pretty standard....He really started custom jobbing his boots beyond extra stitching when he wore the adiPure line. He had a higher heel tab on the original, and then had a true tongue on the II (as did many pros) along with the heel tab, and then we see his choice in the III. I think he was injured for most of the IV's run before the adiPower. Oh, and he also had a full k-leather boot on his where the II and III had some synthetic in the mid foot and heel.

I would guess those rounded studs were b/c his knee was shot at the World Cup (followed by his career), and the sports med world seems to think that blades hurt the knee. Or they were trying an early version of the Sprintframe on the adiPure. I think someone pretty much established that this outsole was either the Copa outsole with other colors or the outsole from the Telstar version of the III.

 

I never saw that article or quote, but it is totally possible. I know I have seen Kaka using the Copa and World Cup a few times for Milan and Brasil. He wore the World Cup model in a friendly with England a few years back (2007?), and Footy Boots was trying to incorrectly say that they were a disguised adiPure he was testing (at that point Kaka was in Preds, and the adiPure line was still a few months away). I think I recall a couple matches and training sessions for Milan in Copa's as well....I think he wore Copa's when he was waiting on MTM models of the Preds or Pures (if his pair ripped or broke down, which says a lot about the ability of the Copa line to just work without being MTM).

I know Lampard has said he liked the adiPure because it reminded him of the Copa and World Cup, which he wore growing up. He is another that had the heel tab raised to fit more like a Copa. This can be seen on his match worn boot photos that float around a bit.

Becks also wore Copas to train with Milan when he was unhappy with the Pred X and adidas had not sent him a new custom pair with PowerSwerve features (outsole and heel counter) and a tongue/all leather upper.

Yeah, please make that info public. I have a pair of adiZero I's that are hardly used and they toe split. All I want is a Copa for a replacement at this point, unless they want to give me a leather pair of the Barca colored miCoach model.

 

I have not, but that doesn't mean it is out of the realm of possibility. I would love to see it considering that I missed out on the 25th model...I know sacrilegious considering my love of classic boots. I waited for the price to drop and then my size sold out.

Where have you heard this? I have not seen anything yet, but some of the retailers I spoke with have said they thought it was really a good shoe. Personally I am very interested in them, not just as a review shoe, but a potential shoe to have in my regular rotation, if they work well considering they tick a lot of my boxes on paper.

As an aside, I picked up a new pair of Copa's and World Cups today...The leather on the Copa/World Cup is better than previous models, more in line with the feel of the Moreila Japan to the touch. Granted my last Copa was bought in 08 and still going strong, these just seem to be a touch above the older models. Same with my newly acquired Mundial Team despite the Team not being German made like the Copa/World Cup.

Despite my old Copa's still being great, I have decided to size up a 1/2 size in all my boots over the last year or so because I have been destroying my feet wearing generally what is 2 sizes smaller than my standard dress shoes in my boots. Four ingrown toenail operations have been enough. I finally got around to replacing the Copa's for a slightly less tight model, that is still super tight by any normal standard.

 

I have seen the catalog with the upcoming LZ Preds and the summer colorway releases...big news, unless I missed someone else reporting this, and if so, I am sorry.

The leather adiZero will have a repeat of the blackout with warning colorway from the first model, and it will be released in August of 2012, which I presume means it will not be a release that is designed to make viewers think that black out test models seen on TV are the current shoe.

In addition there is a black model with silver sprintweb and volt...and a white black and lime Messi model.

The synthetic will have a repeat of the white-out with blue from the fist adiZero, and the other synthetic looks like an inverse of the current Barca colorway.

The 11Pro have a white, black and blue model, and the blue, white and red that seems to fall in line with the LZ launch color.

 

The LZ will surely be the new Pred as we all know...but here is the kicker, it is not competing with the CTR, per say, it is more of a shoe to compete with the Total 90.

There will be a 4th silo launched from adidas in the coming year (holiday or early 2013) that will focus on the being direct competition for the 360 line........Sadly, adidas is doing exactly what I said, chasing Nike, and not being adidas. At least there will always be the Copa line.........

Oh and the LZ looks, ok, from a design perspective; it could have been a great shoe if done in leather. Also, don't expect a traditional Predator colorway from this model, it most likely isn't happening.