The Adidas F50 range of football boots is Adidas's signature line of customisable, lightweight boots. First released in 2004, in the build-up to UEFA Euro 2004, the range was released as a successor of the X-Line range and as a direct competitor to Nike's Mercurial Vapor range, which had been released two years earlier. The name F50 (Football 50) is a reference to the year 1954 when the West German national team won the World Cup in revolutionary Adidas boots with exchangeable studs. Adidas decided to mark this occasion with another revolutionary boot exactly 50 years after the event in 2004.
The F50 Adizero boots were unveiled in May 2010 in three different colorways.
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The +F50.7 TUNIT was a 2007 update with a different graphic design, lacecover, and a sleeker silhouette. weight is 200 grams 35 grams heavier than the normal f50 adizero, 55 grams more than the primes gracias
The F50.8 TUNIT was released for the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament. The most distinctive feature is the translucent heel and sole also known as the Alles Klar technology. This improves the fit and stability as well as simplifying the boot making it more lightweight than previous generations.
The F50.9 TUNIT was released on 1 November 2008 and was designed by Sonny Lim. The lacecover was welded on the upper in process that is similar the Adidas Teamgeist ball. This seamless lace cover was supposed to provide an optimal fit and a clean kicking surface. It also featured an engineered lightweight microfiber synthetic AdiGrip upper and synthetic lining. The current line of Adidas F50.9 boots includes the following colour options: black/yellow; white/red; blue/red; black/yellow leather; limited edition "Lionel Messi model" (silver/blue); blue/white, special edition "Champions League Rome" model (cardinal red/white/gold); and a future Climacool version.
The F50i TUNIT was released in of 2009. Lionel Messi played with custom F30i boots in the 2009 Champions League Final.[1] F50i are the newest installment, released in late May. The first two colour options are cyan, running white, black, as well as a running white, black, and a macaw green/black model. However, Lionel Messi wore macaw F50i boots. There are also light scarlet/white/metallic gold and navy/gold colorways.
On the 11th May 2010, Adidas launched the F50 adiZero. Their main focus was speed, and the boot's synthetic version weighs 165g (or 5.8oz)[2] with the leather version weighing 175g (or 6.2oz). The launch colourways were: Black/Sun, Sun/Black/Gold and Chameleon Purple, and each colorway came in a Leather and Synthetic version.[3] There is no more TUNiT system on this boot which was used in the past 5 models, although there is a hybrid version which is similar to the TUNiT system. Diego Forlan first debuted the boots on field in the Europa League Final against Fulham, where he scored both Atletico's goals in their 2-1 AET win.
During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, players such as Argentina's Lionel Messi, USA's Jozy Altidore, Spain's David Villa, Netherlands's Arjen Robben,and England's Jermain Defoe wore the F50 Adizero.[4] Lionel Messi, in particular, was sporting his own Chameleon Purple version; other adiZero wearers wore the Sun Yellow/Black or the Black/Sun Yellow colourways.
For the 2010-11 season, Adidas are set to release a Metallic Gold/Black/White colourway for Lionel Messi.[5]
Slated as a tier upgrade for the standard F50 adiZero series rather than a second edition. The F50 adiZero Prime weigh in at 145g (or 5.1oz), making them the lightest boot in the market. Initial launch colourways includes Warning/Black/White and Black/White/Electricity. They were officially released on the 1st February 2011. The F50 adiZero II were also released on the same date and also the same colorways as the F50 adiZero Prime. The difference between both cleats in color is that the adiZero II do not have a colored band running on the bottom of the cleat. Also the internal TPU bands used as protection from cleating is also a different color than the adiZero II. The TPU bands in both colorways for the cleats are in silver in the adiZero II while the Prime's in the colorway Warning/Black/White are orange. The adiZero II weigh in at about 147g (or 5.2oz). Adidas makes a child version of the F50 adiZero II. This cleat is a direct take down from the F50 as apposed to the Nike Mercurial's line of lightweight boots , which isn't as light and it's made up from different materials than Adidas were using for the F50 adiZero line of lightweight boots. The Prime version for the F50 adiZero was discontinued for the following edition of the F50 adiZero series, which is yet to released by Adidas later on. In late 2011 , Adidas released a new version of F50. It's called the F50 adiZero III/miCoach. These boots were released in two color ways. The first colorway is called black , this colorway is Black/Orange/White. While the second colorway is energy, this colorway is Electric/Yellow/Red. This version of F50 adiZero has the ability to be tracked using the miCoach Speed Cell, controlled by a miCoach account. This F50 adiZero III/miCoach weigh in about 173g (or 6.1oz) with the 8g (or 0.3oz) miCoach chip inserted but with the removal of the miCoach chip, and you're back to the standard adiZero boots, weight in about 165g (or 5.8oz) same as the first generation of F50 adiZero. It was the first boots with a brain and also one of the fastest in the world created by Adidas.
F50 TUNITs come in many varieties and colours, such as the limited edition and newly released macaw slime, yellow and black, victory blue, red, and Dutch orange, as well as haze, night, white, Lionel Messi-endorsed boots. Adidas-sponsored teams also have uppers designed with their colours, such as Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool, Milan, Ajax, Bayern Munich, and the German national team have uppers with their colours and logos.There is also a F50 range of gloves for goalkeepers. It is made for goalies that want a glove for all weather conditions; the glove has a backhand which can be zippered to one of the 3 palms: hard ground, wet, and dry.
The F50 football boots are designed especially for more speed oriented players, such as strikers and wingers. Famous wearers include: