Football boot

Football boots are part of the equipment of soccer players. The shoes for competition and training operation today between studs, cams and multi studs shoes.

Nature

With the exception of indoor soccer shoes football shoes all have under the sole lugs, cams or knobs that ensure sufficient support against sliding. As cleats only replaceable cleats are now usually referred to independently attached individually to the sole and are made of leather, rubber, ceramic, aluminum or plastic. With studded shoes the rubber or plastic cleats are shaped as an integral part of the sole and not interchangeable. The sole must have at least ten cam cleats. Especially artificial turf shoes have small pimples in large numbers and are therefore referred to as a " centipede ". Until the Second World War, beams, afford - and horseshoe-shaped fittings under the sole were common, which was made ​​of leather or rubber, extended over the whole sole width and were rounded at the corners.

Today a number of different studs or cams are offered that are specifically tailored to their area of ​​application. They differ not only by the material of the cam, but also by their size, length, number and arrangement:

History

For complete teams exchangeable screw-in studs were used for the first time in 1949. The Blumenthaler SV was also through this technical assistance for three consecutive times Bremer national champion. These shoes were designed by Alexander Salot and soon from Werder Bremen, Hamburger SV, from Eimsbütteler TV, Rot-Weiss Essen, the first FC Cologne, Hanover were ordered 96 and FC Schalke 04. In the final of the German Cup in 1954 between Hannover 96 and 1 FC Kaiserslautern, Hannover ran in Puma shoes on with screw-in studs. The shoes were developed by Rudolf Dassler, the founder of Puma.

With the Football World Cup 1954 in Switzerland shoes were used with replaceable studs from Adidas of the German team. Especially in the rain-soaked grass in the playoff in the Bernese Wankdorfstadion this was a big advantage over the strips equipped with shoes of a Hungarian manufacturer Hungary. These shoes with the metal studs based on a development by Rudolf Dassler's brother Adolf, the founder of Adidas, and his brother Raymond Martz from the year 1953.

Soccer shoes with iron studs are often considered undesirable because the risk of injury is not insignificant. On August 14, 1981 the player Ewald Lienen from Bremen player Norbert Siegmann with the studs of the soccer shoe of the thigh was slashed to a length of 25 cm. In the rules it states: The nature of the studs / cam in material, number and dimensions (length / diameter) may mean either the carrier nor the other players a risk of injury. Only at a certain age group such shoes are allowed. Details are often specified in the tournament rules.