"New Adidas F50 Tunit boots have dropped, 20 years on from the original, in a tribute to Lionel Messi. Messi wore the original Tunit boots, which were pretty damn innovative for Adidas at the time, and a sign of football boots moving to a more plastic-looking material and away from the traditional black leather that we all knew and loved. They've re-released gunmetal Predators lately, featuring Sir David Beckham, and those iconic Spider' F50 boots that Djibril Cisse wore so now for another classic."
"The Adidas F50 boots originally launched in 2004 the German manufacturer's answer to Nike's Mercurial Vapor designed for speed and weightlessness. The spider-style effort dropped a year later, before 2006 brought a whole new ball game in screw-in studs: these boots looked like they were made of plastic, and were the first model that Messi wore as an Adidas athlete when he went to his first World Cup in 2006, wearing that iconic Teamgeist kit and a pair of white Tunits."
Adidas has released a 20th-anniversary reissue of the F50 Tunit boot as a tribute to Lionel Messi. The boot is a modern reinterpretation of the 2006 F50 Tunit and features a white base with iconic elements. The original F50 launched in 2004 as Adidas's response to Nike's Mercurial Vapor, prioritizing speed and lightweight construction and moving away from traditional black leather toward plastic-looking materials. Messi wore the original Tunit at the 2006 World Cup while wearing the Teamgeist kit. Limited-edition release notes suggest possible future Tunit-inspired colorways tied to competing nations at the 2026 World Cup.
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