There’s always a strong air of intrigue around a blackout boot spot, especially when it’s in a training session. Which is why we were very interested with the brilliant boot spot sent in by Bruno Ramos, which depicts Neymar wearing some very strange blackout boots. Soccer Reviews is the first to the ball with these special photos. The mystery has been solved! These are the Nike Green Speeds, check out more about them here.
There’s definitely some different things about Neymar’s blackout Mercurial prototypes. Perhaps the two most obvious differences are the upper and the soleplate. We can’t say with 100% certainty what the upper is, but it is looking like a synthetic upper, perhaps a redesign of the ultra-thin Teijin synthetic leather found on the Vapor VIII, which has some durability issues. Plus the soleplate, especially near the heel, looks very, very thick. It’s interesting to note that these look very similar to the Vapor prototypes that leaked out a couple months ago, and from close up photos that we saw of them they did have Nike’s Flyknit technology. Because of that we believe that the areas in between the shiny tape like material is actually Flyknit.
We’re going to keep looking out for more photos of these (very interesting) blackout boots. Until then, we’re going to go out on a limb and say Neymar is not wearing Vapor 9 prototypes, but perhaps an early prototype for some Vapors we’re going to see late next year or in 2014. What do you think they are?
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Gunt22 FTWWW =)) . Neymar wasnt the first one you know
Has an external heel counter too, interesting
And yea as Tran Binh Minh says, its the same as Gunt22s prototypes
Here they are… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lja-wwkCwko
vapor viii sl?
Nike mercurial Superfly for 2014? The pictures that gunt has, the boots reminds me of the f50 leather boots, the toe of the boot is leather for that feel on the ball, then the rest of the boot is made of the light material! But this does look exciting times for Nike!!!!
I think he is testing Vapor VIII but in the new Kangaroo-Leather material
I think what’s more interesting is the socks he’s wearing… What are they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQdwRkhb_A&feature=plcp , NIKE MERCURAL VAPOR 9!
Gunt22 said they are Vapor X prototypes. I believe Gunt…
VI am more interested to see if they release them as a Kanga-lite version of the 8 or as the new Vapor 9s. My money would be on the former since the soleplate is staying the same. I would be intereseted in getting these when they come out; they should be pretty light with the Flyknit integration.
Nike Vapor IX Velo (equivalent to previous superfly) with SwiftGrip outsole (like f50 sprintframe) set to be released in late March
nike vapor IX Velo? what? that was never on the boot calender! Whats Velo?
These are the new Nike GS (green Speed) that came out today, except they are blacked out. Compare pictures, you will see it
its named nike GS
Definitely a blackout of the new Nike Green Speed
arent they just a blackout version of the nike GS?