LISBONNE, Portugal (AP) – Designed after the deconstruction of the track nails, the new lightweight football shoes with carbon fiber plates gave players a credit in the Champions League final.
Serge Gnabry has 3 goals in two matches for Bayern Munich, and extreme rival Angel Di Maria scored one and scored the two goals of Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals.
The extension of the European season imposed by the pandemic meant that the new shoes (or crampons) were in a position to be worn by Gnabry and Di Maria and other Adidas-backed players in the Champions League mini-tournament ending Sunday with Bayern playing for PSG in the finale.
Adidas X Ghosted is designed to cope with immediate orientation changes as well as the player’s acceleration and propulsion needs, according to the manufacturer.
“What was done is to deconstruct this board and this wisdom of the board and rebuild them absolutely in the context of football and its express movements,” Philipp Hagel, Adidas’ senior product manager, told The Associated Press. Carbon fiber. We have installed a specially designed piece of adjustable carbon fiber. “
The use of carbon fiber plates through Nike rivals in running shoes has raised considerations that threaten the integrity of the game as they act as a lever for ankle work.
Independent studies funded through the company have shown that the shoe gives runners 4% credit in terms of energy efficiency. World Athletics’ governing frame has banned any shoe that is more than 40 millimetres thick or more than one plate.
Adidas says your football shoe complies with regulations.
“I have a lot of friends and colleagues who paint in running,” Dave Surace, senior director of Adidas football shoes, told AP. “I think the legality and deficiencies of this have been complicated for everyone involved. “
The X Ghosted design procedure started 3 years ago.
“Much of the work was based on an idea, but the ingredients still didn’t exist,” Surace said. “We had to invent and create a lot of fabrics and processes ourselves. “
It is a very, low-speed padded carbon technology that hardens because it puts on more power to complete the load.
“Carbon fiber is smooth and has a higher power return,” Surace said. “The worst case scenario is that if it breaks, it becomes brittle. He’s going beyond the point of no backtracking and then he doesn’t come back. it’s plastic.
“And you have a catastrophic fault. You see those things in professional cycling races or in tennis players who hit the ground with rackets. When it is done, it is done . . . it breaks completely. “
Ultimately, the designers will hope that this shoe will allow the players who wear it to Sunday’s Champions League final to be the fastest version of themselves.
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