Today, January 18th is an important date for football as adidas has launched, after several testing months, the new ACE 16+ Purecontrol. But before we start talking about these new boots lets be fair, these are not the first laceless football boots in history. Back in 2003 Lotto launched the Zhero Gravity, a model designed by a well know designer in the market: Dennis Dekovic, who actually moved from Nike to adidas the past year. Do you think he had to do with the new ACE 16+ Purecontrol? The Lotto model came out in a time when the materials didn't allow for such big innovations and that's the reason why that design wasn't elastic enough. But now in 2016, tons of football boots are made with woven materials and that allows to create a laceless boot.
Once we are all in the same page it's time to talk about the relevance of this boot. Is it necessary to remove laces from football boots? I will be very clear with my answer: YES, IT'S NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE LACES. If we take a football boot from the beginning of the XX century and a current football boot, 116 years of evolution, we'll see everything has changed but for one element: the laces. Materials have changed, shape has changed, structure has changed, but the laces are still there. Generating an interference in one of the most important areas in a football boot: the striking area.
The Primeknit material is the key element to face this change. But now we are ready to face this technological jump thanks to todays materials and adidas has been the first sports brand to take the chance and do it. The elasticity of the Primeknit material in the area where the laces are supposed to be make them dispensable since all their function is o tighten up the fit or release to remove the foot from inside. But if the upper is elastic and already offers a tight fit... What need do we have to add an element that will interfere in contact with the ball? which make the boot heavier in wet conditions, and which also affect the looks of the boot.
Now let's talk about the most important tech specs in this new boot. The area laces area. It's the only part of this boot which is "naked" as it's not covered by the synthetic layer we find in the rest of the boot. This way you can have an idea of how elastic this material is. Thanks to this, and to the two Pull elements we have, to put on and off the boot will be less complicated. But I must say that the shoehorn will become your best friend.
Another big innovation of this football boot, that will affect the entire top range models of the ACE 16, is the outsole. The outsole of the ACE 15 wasn't as well accepted as expected and lots of players missed the SprintFrame and the structure of past generations. I must say I'm not one of those players, I did like the current outsole, but adidas listens to what the players say and move fast, that's the reason why they bring back the SprintFrame and the same structure for this new generation.
But they don't forget those players who did like the outsole of the ACE 15 and they came up with an interesting idea: a SprintFrame (heel counter included, attached to the outsole, with a very low cut profile and three stability elements in the bridge area) with conical studs. Something that in todays adidas football boots you'd only find in the Copa Mundial. And which is very important for control players as they are doing cuts and turns all the time as well as the need of stability.
When it comes to the aesthetics we also think it takes a step forward. The new adidas ACE 16+ Purecontrol drops the classic look of the original ACE 15 and comes this time with a more aggressive look where we have a huge adidas branding in the outside lateral. This style will no be exclusive for the Purecontrol model, in a few days we will see the entire ACE 16 line and you'll know what I'm talking about.
So this is the new ADIDAS ACE16+ PURECONTROL the true revolution by adidas available in pre-orde now in Soloporteros.com
