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qpr26
Lv 4
qpr26 asked in SportsFootballEnglish Football · 7 years ago

What is it with Premier League players all wearing either yellow or bright pink Nike Mercurial boots this season?

Anybody know why this is?? Where did the trend start from?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No doubt some are simply lucrative sponsorship deals, but from the technical point of view:

    brightly coloured boots moving rapidly while dribbling the ball, will tend to draw the attention of an opposition defender,

    ..... so that his eyes instinctively follow the feet rather than the ball:

    causing a distraction that potentially gives the dribbling attacker a slight edge.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Apparently they believe young people are into buying florescent colors that are different but these teams tend to fail to win any titles wearing these colors just look at the horrible colors Barcelona had a couple of years ago as they lost to Celtic.

    Look how Real Madrid is struggling wearing pink.

  • Zapata
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Nike pays them to wear them, simple as that.. If Nike made plastic buckets, the players would be paid to put them on their heads.

  • 7 years ago

    I imagine their is some lucrative sponsorship with the premiership...

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  • Loog5R
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Boot deals..?

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