Adidas Thread [11] - All Adidas info, pictures, questions here!

Please pardon my poor grammar and spelling in this last post.

 

I gave up trying to find some AG LZs, and got Nike CTR360 Trequartista III iDs, since I could get them in wide and AG. They didn't even have any AG LZs at PDS's UK site at the time, although I see they have since added some though they only have the Absolion and Absolado and not the Black/Black/Green colorway. If the Black/Black/Green ever comes out in AG, I'd still buy a pair.

 

I wish I could enjoy the Absolion or the Absolado. I may have missed this in the last 31 pages, but has it been discussed why Adidas has decided to withhold so many boots from the States? That Adidas wouldn't offer upper end AG's and SG's here in the US seems strange to me. With so many of the surfaces in the Pacific Northwest being either soggy wet fields or artificial, I can't believe there isn't a market for them...

 

On a separate note...

Has anyone tried on the Nitrocharge? I'm curious as to whether it fits like the LZ. I have narrow feet, after a couple of weeks in the LZ's the row of shoelace eyelets on either side of my foot(across from each other, on each side of the tongue) are practically touching when I lace them tight due to some stretching. The NC's appear to have less "built in" space between the rows of eyelets(same with the new LZ's), I'm wondering what impact this might have on fit.

Speaking of narrow feet, the Predator Incurza, a rugby boot, has extra eyelets that allow for more lacing options for the narrow footed, I'd love to see that on new soccer/football boots.

 

One of the members is receiving a pair soon. I personally found the LZ to be quite narrow anyway.

 

soccer.com had the Predator LZ AG's a while back, I checked over the holiday and they look to have sold out.

 

Adidas Predator LZ 2013 - http://www.sochuteiras.com/2012/12/adidas-predator-lz-2013-em-novo-esquema.html

 

For those of you interested, Pred LZ AG's just went on clearance overseas, $192(so much for clearance) after dollar to pound conversion. Just ordered a couple pairs fearing the AG outsoul might not be forever.

Also, the Predator LZ XTRX SG is on clearance on PDS UK for 147.00 after shipping. Not bad

 

June/July time I believe.

July is set to be a HUGE month in boot releases. The hypervenom, NitroCharge and the LZ IIs. Looks amazing.

 

I dont see the difference between those Hypervenom's and Mercurials. They look like a boot from the same silo.

Of course though, Nike will come out with a marketing slogan that people will believe.

 

I think the same, but until I see the proper specs I'm not willing to write it off.

 

I'm really looking forward to hyper venoms since i love the vapor 8 upper, but got too much stud pressure to make it worth it. The hyper venom to me seems like vapors with conical studs

 

Does anyone know which "messi edition" adizero the soccerreviews boot calendar is referring to that comes out in January? Is it the red/white colour way or that terrible red/blue?

 

^^^I think the terrible one.

 

red/white

 

Oh I see they updated it with the specific colourway, thanks

 

I'm not doubting you at all Jon, but I find it weird that Adidas would release the new LZ's and nitrocharge's in the same month, is there some sort of reason for this..?

 

I doubt they'll be released in the same week, say. Jordon is the man to talk to about this stuff.

I believe there is an explanation behind it though. Isn't there a major competition next Summer? Is it the South American one? I don't know for certain, but that may be a possible explanation. But I don't think the LZ II release is going to be marketed as a 'completely new boot' anyway, instead I envisage it to be like the Nike Mercurial Superfly II --> III. However, where someone may argue against this is with the fact adidas are set to market the LZ as a direct competitor to the Maestri. But I'm 95% certain the NitroCharge will be the main focus by adidas this Summer, especially with the Hypervenom being released and marketed for Strikers.

If I was to place a bet though, I'd say the NitroCharge's will be released end of June, and LZ IIs middle of July, in time for Pre-Season, or vice versa. I'd also bet that there is going to be a HUGE push by adidas for the NitroCharge. A gigantic one. I may be completely wrong here, but I've heard one or two whispers that the NitroCharge will have some features that are going to be adapted and implemented on the other adidas boots. Similar to Nike ACC.

The whispers about the NitroCharge are making me very excited though - just need Mercurial to get them and see whether he can confirm whether they are true.

So to clear everything up, here is how I see future adidas releases for 2013 (this is just a few whispers I've heard though, nothing concrete like Jordon's information on the boot calendar):

January - Messi exclusive colourway, to be worn by him until end of February time.
March - Final LZ colourways, standard colour updates for all adidas boots
June/July - NitroCharge + LZ II. New colour updates for all boot ranges (not mentioned by Jordon for some reason)
September/October - Fall colourways for all adidas boots
December - New AdiPure to be seen on feet of wearers, Schweinsteiger etc.

 

Thanks for the great info Jon, looking to get a pair of Nitrocharges to try out too. looks interesting as hell, although i'm still quite interested to know what that 'band' is all about.

 

Did anyone from here buy the red pair from the store I linked?

 

Adidas 2013 men's releases + turf boots with micoach + ucl balls

 

Aside from the green LZs all of those are really good.

 

Picture doesn't work I'm afraid.