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1) Customization

Customization process takes place not only to highlight player's number or initials, but also to make boots more comfortable. Shortening a tongue, trimming hill, rearranging studs or even using a particular leather has become a common way to increase a comfort level of football boots. One of many examples is English player Declan Rice, who has more than 25 modifications to his AdiPure 11 Pro boots.

Styles and design

Depending on the type of surface and the wearer's position or role in the game, different styles of boot and particularly stud configurations are available.

For hard pitches, amateur participants may wear a turf football boot (TF) or a plastic-stud boot (known as a "moulded sole"). For indoor football, companies developed indoor court (IC) boots . These come with rubber soles, meant to maximize grip on the floor and are specifically designed for the indoor game. For football on turf or artificial grass, some players wear regular firm ground (FG) football boots. But wearing regular football boots on turf greatly reduces the life of the boot, so companies such as Nike have developed football boots for artificial grass (AG), which have smaller circular studs. The other type of football boot is SG (soft ground). It is recommended to use while playing on well-grassed or sodden field. When playing on this kind of pitch, some players favor using a boot with screw-in studs in their non-dominant (supporting) foot to provide grip, and a boot with short rubber or plastic studs in the dominant (kicking/passing) foot to provide accuracy. However, most players opt for a consistent configuration on both boots.More recently, moulded soles with specially designed boots known as blades have moulded soles facing in multiple directions, theoretically to maximise grip and minimise ankle injury. Recently, however, "bladed" football boots have faced criticism from some UK sporting bodies for causing potentially serious injuries to players. English football club Manchester United have even banned their players from wearing boots with bladed studs after players like Wayne Rooney and David Beckham suffered repeated metatarsal injuries.

The break through in football boots evolution was made when Adidas released laceless boots in 2016. Even though Adidas increased the popularity of laceless boots, first laceless boots were released by Italian bootmaker company Lotto in 2006. Despite not being able to make a significant change in the world of laceless shoes, Lotto Zero Gravity were worn by such famous players as Cafu, Andriy Shevchenko and Luca Toni. After Adidas stared the trend in 2016 other companies like Umbro, New Balance and Nike have also released their versions on laceless shoes. Laceless boots demonstrate a better lock down and lateral stability. A knitted upper, allows players to have a better ball control due to larger surface area.

In recent years, questions have been raised about the safety of female footballers wearing men's football boots, mainly due to foot shape and weight distribution differences between women's and men's feet. Despite football boots being unisex, studies have shown that women tend to get injured more often while playing in football boots.