Three Stripes. . . and you get the boot
Talking Balls
Not to be Outdone by the glamour parade over in Croker as the Camogs strutted their stuff, a host of Ireland’s top GAA footballers including Colm ‘The Gooch’ Cooper, Paul Galvin, Michael Meehan, Alan Brogan and James Masters were over at St. Vincent’s to highlight the three top of the range boots in the adidas family and their benefits specific to the Gaelic Footballer.
Also on hand was Mike McGurn, former fitness coach to the IRFU, who took the players and the assembled media through a Skills Challenge, designed to highlight the benefits of each boot to the skills required in Gaelic Football. Each player will wear either adidas adipure, F50.8 TUNiT+ or Predator Powerswerve, depending on their individual style of play. Not on display was the classic Widowmaker, favoured by Junior football corner backs, most effective when caked in mud.
According to the adidas marketing blurb ‘kicking supremo The Gooch is a Predator man, while Alan Brogan wears the F50 - the boot of choice for flair players, and his brother Bernard prefers the new adipure, fittingly, a new classic in the making.’ Sounds deadly. Ironically each of these players has been red carded and/or suspended in recent weeks. Nothing to do with the boots.
The players will also have access to the full range of adidas performance apparel and footwear, including Techfit™, a family of multi-sport garments scientifically proven to enhance sporting performance. These are believed to include a rather louche bathrobe, support pants based on the same technology that brought us the Wonderbra, a manthong whatever that is, and some large baggy shorts for the fella with more firepower under his belt, as modelled by Monaghan’s Thomas Freeman.
Paul Galvin was voted the hottest thing on two legs, so Paul, we have a Squareball hoodie for you if you care to give us a call. For the rest of you lads, we have a t-shirt. Just pick up the phone and ask for it.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Since when did Adidas enter the colthing field and what all they have done in this product line???