Purple & Orange

It's clear this is a male-dominated blog because there has been no discussion about the shoes in this World Cup (til now).


From an article on Yahoo.

40% of all players across the competition (around 294 total) are wearing these (Mercurial Vapor Superfly II) including Franck Ribery, Carlos Tevez, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and 14 other US players.

According to Nike:

An average person's vision is 99 percent peripheral. Less than 1 percent is considered foveal, or focused vision. To spark increased focus of peripheral vision Nike designers analyzed the color spectrum to identify two high-contrast colors, so that when a player is running with these boots the colors trigger a stimulus to rapidly tune peripheral vision. Mach Purple and Total Orange provided the perfect blend to create this effect and performance advantage.

Oh and they look pretty on TV.