FIFA and France Football today announced the candidates for the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or. Traditionally, the big brands Adidas and Nike battle to supply the soccer cleats for the best players of the world, while only Puma managed to sign one player of the 2014 Ballon d’Or Shortlist. We take a detailed look at the football boots worn by 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or Nominees in association with Football Boots DB.
The Football Boots Brands of the 2014 Ballon d’Or Nominees
This infographic shows the boots brands of the 23 Ballon d’Or nominees.
The Ballon d’Or Shortlist includes 23 male nominees for the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or, who predominantly wear Adidas and Nike Boots. Six German players have been named on the 23-men shortlist for the FIFA Ballon d’Or award, including 5 Adidas players as well as Nike Magista Obra player Mario Götze, who scored the World Cup winning goal.
2014 Champions League winners Real Madrid have a strong presence among the names, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos, Sergio Ramos and James Rodríguez on the list to win the 2014 Ballon d’Or. Lionel Messi, Neymar and Arjen Robben are also on the list for the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or.
In total, Adidas supplies the football boots for 12 Ballon d’Or nominees, while 10 players of the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or Shortlist are wearing Nike Football Boots, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Ibrahimović. Yaya Toure is the only player wearing boots not from the 3 stripes and the Swoosh.
The most popular football boots of the 2014 Ballon d’Or Shortlist is the Adidas F50 Adizero Cleat, worn by 8 nominees (Bale, Benzema, Diego Costa, Messi, Müller, Robben, James Rodríguez, Schweinsteiger). 5 players lace up in the Nike Magista Cleats (Courtois, Götze, Iniesta, Mascherano, Pogba), while the Nike Mercurial Boot is worn by Cristiano Ronaldo, Ribéry and Ibrahimović.
The Adidas Adipure 11pro is worn by Phillip Lahm and Toni Kroos, while the Adidas Nitrocharge (Manuel Neuer), Adidas Predator (Angel di María), Nike Hypervenom (Neymar), Nike Tiempo Legend (Sergio Ramos) and the Puma evoPOWER (Yaya Toure) are only worn by one player, respectively.
Check out all 2014 Nike, Adidas and Puma Football Boots in our Boot Calendar as well as detailed football boot statistics on footballbootsdb.com.