Adidas F50 Adizero 2013 miCoach 2 Boot Review Messi Yellow Edition

So you're a soccer or football player and you want a light boot that doesn't suck. Enter, the Adidas F50 Adizero 2013 miCoach 2.

Now you're probably thinking, what do I know about boots or even, what do I know about football in general and the fortunate answer for you is, heaps. I've played in the Brisbane Premier League and currently dwell in the Sydney State League so I go through a few boots and I'm a fast type of player so naturally, I love my speed boots.

But before we get to the review lets clear something up in relation to speed boots. I loved the Vapor 3 boots from Nike and from a technical stand point, they were brilliant. So brilliant in fact that I played them to the ground and by that stage, I couldn't buy my size anymore.

Above: Not even tape can fix that.

Lucky for me, the F50 White Lightnings got released on Kitbag and so my love affair with the Adidas F50 range started. These boots by the way, they have to be the nicest, cleanest looking boot I've ever had the pleasure of wearing.

It just doesn't get better than this F50 White Lightning

So when those F50's finally died two seasons later I made arguably the most expensive mistake I've ever made in football. I bought the Nike Vapor VIII.

These guys savaged my feet

I sold them after 5 months of wear as they never broke in, constantly slipped due to overly retarded stud placement and generally savaged my feet whenever they could. It was as if Nike, a company who made the almost perfect Vapor III boot had gone backwards with every iteration and arrived at a boot that only narrow footed players could ever hope of using.

What I did next though, was brilliant. Kitbag had just released the Adidas Adizero F50's in yellow and I decided after much deliberation to go for it and spent another 260AUD, hopefully this time on a boot that brought back the touch and feel of my original F50 White Lightnings.

So here we are, we can go on with the review now.

Adidas F50 Adizero 2013

For a start, these boots are remarkably in line with the same touch and feel of the previous generation so if you are a bit curious on sizing and you've had F50's before then just stay with the same size you had. If you've never had F50's before then go to your nearest store to try them on and then buy them online because you'll save at least 100AUD I've found and if you save the same amount, feel free to thank me by subscribing to my YouTube Channel .

Adidas has gone a bit crazy with the marketing though and everything is sprint skin this and sprint web that but really, I'm just going to cut through that bullshit and let you know the changes in terms you can understand.

Touch and Toe Box

With speed boots you can generally feel the ball contact your foot a bit better but this is sometimes not the greatest thing especially if it's cold and you need to kick a ball really hard. Same goes for tackles and if you get stood on and generally speed boots coincide with metatarsal injuries, sore heels and black toes. I mention this because I've got the latter two whilst I know a few players who have broken metatarsals whilst wearing ultra light cleats like the F50's.

If you can accept that risk then read on, if not then perhaps the T90's, Adipures or Predator Range are more suited to your style of play. I personally play on the wing so it's a risk I take to get the most out of my game and in my opinion the touch is brilliant with the toe box being tight and well in control when it comes to shooting. The contact isn't too hard on the foot and is a slight but measurable improvement over the previous generation F50's.

Stud placement and Grip

Triangle shaped studs. It's such a good idea that you kind of wonder why noone else had thought of it prior to the mainstream F50 range. The grip this boot provides is in fact, the best I've encountered on any boot, ever. Change of pace, change of direction, wet or dry. The F50's cling and cling well to keep you on the front foot instead of plump on your ass. 

Heel Counter

I did have some issues with the heel counter initially and it caused blisters for around 3 weeks when training three times a week. I'm not sure if my skin got tougher or the boot finally changed shape but the heel counter isn't causing any issues any more and I don't experience slip either. It's a minimalistic heel counter that does it job when sprinting or changing directions.

Overall Opinion

These boots are by and large the best you can get at the moment. Adidas has indeed hit a winner whilst Nike continues in some ways to be scoring own goals by segmenting their boot to the narrow footed only. I have wide and flat feet for the record and I can't go back to the Nike range because of it and that's unfortunate because that means less choice for me in the long run.

The fortunate of course is that the Adidas F50 2013's are brilliant, absolutely brilliant and I quite simply have no problem with recommending them over anything else in the market right now. If you have any questions about the boot or my opinions of it then simply ask me below or on the YouTube review video.

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