SoccerPro.com and Footballs
I love free stuff, well not all free stuff, the clap for example can be free, but I do like getting free stuff related to things I like, hmmm sorry that joke has back fired it seems.
We make absolutely no money out of footballfilter.com or the blog but were recently contacted by SoccerPro to review some of their products….likewise our new writer Tom was also asked – his review to follow, and we jumped at the chance…
So I have a bit of an interest in different types of footballs, see my “evolution of the football” for more details….its more a nostalgic thing than anything as I haven’t owned a football since I was about 15, but jumped the change when SoccerPro got in touch. Basically I decided to ‘review’ three reasonably priced footballs. How do you review a football you may ask? Well I wanted to focus on the cost. Footballs these days can cost up to about 100-200 quid so we all know they are going to be reasonably good but what about the cheapos? Well here’s what I got……
A Nike Tiempo Team Training ball
An Adidas Tango Rosario ball – for pure nostalgic reasons
And a Diadora Napoli ball
Prices
Nike – 12 dollars
Adidas – 25 dollars
Diadora – 17 dollars
Considering the Adidas Tango is the most expensive and is close to my infantile heart, its actually pretty shit, horribly shiny, not anything like how they used to be, cheaply made and even the design/graphics seem a little fake really. The Nike on the other hand is pretty good, to be fair its well cheap and is aimed at training….don’t think it’ll last long but yeah it does the job. The Diadora on the other hand is actually brilliant. It looks cool, it doesn’t seem cheap like the old Adidas and is defo durable….I’m a little drawn to it to be honest, always using that one for juggling practice in the house and the garden during my first BBQ of the year on Saturday. So theres my review innit. Diadora make good balls, quite surprised really cause I have always found the Diadora brand a little tacky – Italy, many apols.
The blog is being a pain in the arse and won’t let me upload the photo I wanted to add……here is a link to the footballs that I purchased…… http://www.flickr.com/photos/footballfilter/3362976937/