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When a package arrived this week at SoccerBible HQ, kindly sent to us from our pals at adidas, we had half an idea about what was inside. Leo Messi’s signature f50 adizero boots have stolen the spotlight in recent weeks. So here they are one more time, presented in an insanely cool aluminium case.

Gareth Bale has scored some of the best goals of his career wearing the yellow/black/green adidas f50 adizero, but this Sunday the Tottenham superstar will change his stripes for the new blue/white/pink f50 as one of the most heated derby fixtures in English football takes centre stage.

To help show off his new clobber, adidas have released a super sleek video showcasing their f50 superstar in super-cool, slow-mo style. The lengthy ten minute video, divided into nine different chapters, explores the greatest assets of Messi's game.

Schweinsteiger has had an up and down relationship with the adiPure for some time now. Adidas haven't had the easiest of times with their German international - he wore the two-year-old adiPure III in last seasons UCL final! It seems as though he's a very particular customer when it comes to his boots!

Just a number of years ago the F50 range was in big trouble. The lead athlete (who happened to be the best player on the planet!) wouldn't wear the top-end versions, and in the speed race with the Mercurial, F50 was losing badly

With new boots and colourways everywhere you look on-pitch around Europe, it was time for Boot Spotting to return from a brief absence due to popular demand. It's a weekly fix for SoccerBible fans, so rest assured the original home of boot spotting is here to stay!

It's f50 launch day here at SoccerBible and we have some more imagery of adidas' all-new adizero miCoach for you. Adidas have given their super light speed boot quite a significant makeover on the aesthetics side. Their official on-pitch debut will come tonight on the feet of Leo Messi.

It's a battle of monolithic proportions, and one that elicits the most passionate response from the boots community. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are sensational footballers seemingly impossible to separate, but what about the boots they wear?

It's a debate that's developed over the past few seasons - Are players sacrificing their own safety by wearing modern lightweight football boots? The argument could easily be seen as a difference in football generations, but now two of the games most respected managers have spoken out.

It used to be that every football boot was fitted with a conical sole-plate, but time, design and engineering has changed this, most radically this can be seen in the Speed market. Whilst every brand strives for greater acceleration and traction, how their respective designers go about delivering this performance is quite remarkably different...