- If you play football as an amateur or you have dreams of going pro someday, then you know how difficult it is to come up with any sort of metrics to chart your performance.
- Did you really play harder in one match than another? Are you sprinting fast enough down the pitch? How many kilometers did you run during the game?
These questions can all be answered by kitting yourself out with the intelligent football boot, the adizero f50 powered by miCoach. Adidas calls it, "the football boot with a brain." The adizero f50 boot includes a cavity in the outsole which houses the miCoach SPEED_CELL. The miCoach device captures 360° movement and measures key performance metrics including speed, average speed (recorded every second), maximum speed (recorded every five seconds), number of sprints, distance, distance at high intensity levels, steps and stride rates. The on-board memory stores all your measurements during the game or training for up to seven hours and then wirelessly transmits the performance data to any tablet, PC or MAC.
"We can now accurately track and analyze game data, simply and easily via a seamless integration into the new adizero f50 outsole," said Andreas Konrads, senior product manager, adidas Football. "Professional football players have long had access to this level of performance data. We are now making this available to all consumers, to compare your game stats, and help guide you to becoming a better player."
Leo Messi, Arjen Robben, Lukas Podolski, Thomas Muller and other players will be wearing the adizero f50 powered by miCoach. An option in the application allows an individual's training statistics to be shared via Facebook. In this way friends and teammates can compare their statistics with each other or even with professional players such as Messi, as they upload their personal results. The stats can also be uploaded to existing training plans via the miCoach website, which are then built into personalized coaching programs that miCoach technology creates specifically for a user.