QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 20, 2005 -> 12:11 AM)
Getting soccer shoes was actually one of my favorite parts of playing soccer during high school. At that time, Mexican League players were beginning to distinguish themselves by wearing soccer shoes of all sorts of different colors, and usually team colors, when black was still the norm...
During the '98 World Cup, one of the players that I used to like came out with green, white, and red shoes, and I couldn't take my eyes off of them. I went to Mexico that summer to visit family, and I was able to find them being sold, so I bought a pair.
After that I was hooked on the brand. One of the things I like about Concord brand, and other Mexican brands, is that you can get the shoes that big-name soccer players in Mexico wear, but they're relatively inexpensive. I was getting mine for about $40 a pair, and they were great-quality, along with getting to see the players wear them on TV. I wore these the following season, metallic silver on the outside, a powder blue on the inner part, and flueoresent yellow studs and emblem.
I also got a black pair with flueoresent yellow emblem and a white pair with a blue emblem after that.
I was gonna buy a pair of pink and white Diadora studs to be a little showoff and as a joke but I decided to get a better pair. I used to have a pair of lime green Addidas that I would wear to soccer practices just to showoff with the guys. Good times.