Team Sport Direct Blog

How to clean my Football Boots

2012-01-26T17:12:00.002Z

With your football boots becoming a more and more expensive investment, it’s important to understand the best ways to look after your football boots and prolong their life.
The football boot is a footballers most important piece of equipment. Ensuring your equipment is in good working order, can only help improve your game.
Over the course of the next few days, I will be giving you a series of guides to help you care for your football boots.

The Basics
1. After playing, always loosen your laces to allow you to remove your boots without using excessive force.

2. Remove loose soil by brushing the football boots with a stiff brush. Do not use a wire brush, instead try and use a brush with a natural material.

3. Wipe the football boots with a damp cloth to remove smaller particles of soil. Do not use a cleaning agent to clean your football boots.

4. If the football boots have been used in wet conditions, you can use an old toothbrush to remove soil that has been trapped in small grooves.

5. Stuff the football boots with newspaper to maintain shape.

6. Allow the football boots to dry in a natural heat.

Warning:

Drying the boots with heat can cause the football boots to become stiff and the adhesives can deteriorate.
Stiff boots are far more likely to rip and are weak.
Deteriorated adhesives can make joints weak, such as the join between the upper and the sole plate. Additionally, heat drying your football boots can cause your soleplate to warp.

7. Once dry, grease the studs. This will prevent rusting if the boots are screw-in, it will also help prevent soil from sticking to the studs.

8. If the boots are leather, they can be polished to retain their colour.

9. After allowing the polish to work in, typically 24 hours, the boot should be protected by a Dubbin or natural leather oil. Dubbin or oil, helps keep the football boot waterproof and the leather supple.

Warning: When cleaning football boots with synthetic material, do not use a Dubbin or oil.

10. If changing or cleaning studs, add a slight lubricant to the stud thread to prevent any rusting if moisture gets in. Ensure the stud is tight, but not too tight to damage the thread. (Too much lubricant will reduce the friction and prevent the stud from properly tightening).

Adidas MiCoach

2012-01-20T11:13:00.000Z

What is Adidas MiCoach?
Adidas miCoach is a small device which goes in the base of your left shoe. (Only select compatible Adidas Footwear). When you play or train, this device will collect together information about how you are training, for example distances cover and speeds in which you cover the ground.

Once you have finished training/playing, plug this device into you iphone/phone/ipad/laptop, install the miCoach application, then all the data will get transferred. The purpose of the software, is to help the individual perform better. As you will know how far, and how hard you work in training, and you can aim to better to goals and fitness levels.

You can even simulate yourself on a game, using the MiCoach football app.

Do you have a MiCoach?
If you have an Adidas MiCoach, let us know your opinions, and whether it has helped you develop your game.

If you haven't got the MiCoach?
You can purchase them from www.teamsportdirect.co.uk for £69.99.
If you require any more information then please give us a call and we will be happy to help.
01604 239857

Adidas Teamwear

2012-01-20T10:57:00.000Z

Team Sport Direct is an Adidas stockist.

Just like all of the other brands, we also supply Adidas Teamwear in the same manor. Ranging from match day shirts to boots and even replica kits, such as Liverpool F.C.
With the news coming as of Wednesday, Adidas will no longer be Liverpool F.C kit supplier. See the full story courtesy of Yahoo News

Adidas have a 8 Match Day Jerseys, all in a range of colours, so there are plenty to choose from. Like Nike, they supply kits for everybody, dispite most people thinking they are expensive. The Autheno Jersey retails at £12 per shirt, follow the next link and you only pay £9 for this. Adidas Autheno Kids or it is RRP £15 and TSD price £11.25 for the Adult sizes. They are available in several colours such as Black, Blue, Navy, White, Red, Orange, Yellow and more.

This year we saw the launch of the Adidas Campeon TechFit Jersey.Description Below:
ClimaLite. Light, breathable fabrics worn close to the skin conduct heat and sweat away from the body to keep you cool and dry in warm playing conditions.
This is only available in adult sizes and retails at £42. Again there is 25% off this shirt at www.teamsportdirect.co.uk.
Other new jersey's are the Campeon Jersey, Tiro II Jersey, and the Toque II Jersey. The shorts and socks remain very much the same, there are a couple of new shorts but nothing outragous in the design.

We do however see a new Training range "Tiro 11". This includes Managers jackets, Stadium Jackets, Polo Shirts, Tees, Training Top, Tracksuits (both Polyester and Presentation). The panel structure is very well designed and easy on the eye.
Below is the Adidas Tiro 11 Hoody - Black/White

Also they released the Adidas Core Training Range, which is a cheaper and more basic range in both materials and design. Again like the Tiro 11 range, the Core range contains polo shirt, sweat tops, t shirts, rain jackets, wind breaks and water-proof bottoms.
Below is the Adidas Core Tee - Red/White

Nike Teamwear

2012-01-18T20:53:00.000Z

At Team Sport Direct we offer a 25% discount off all Nike team wear. This includes all game/match day jerseys, short, socks, GK attire and 3 different training ranges. As with all kit suppliers there are cheaper and expensive kits, to fit the requirements of all teams. They have a wide range colour palet, again suiting the needs of thousands of clubs across the globe. This year we saw the launch of 5 new jerseys. This includes the Energy Game Jersey, Revolution Game Jersey, Precision Game Jersey, Trophy Game Jersey, and lastly the Victory Game Jersey. We also saw the launch of the new Voltage Cherry (660) colour. It can be seen in the Trophy Jersey and the Precision Jersey.This year Nike discontinued the Club training range, and replaced it with the Competition Range, this can be seen on several of the top Premier League sides including Manchester United. It is a full range of training attire including tracksuit, rain jackets, tops, midlayers and shorts. Let us know what you think to the new products and tell us what you would like to see in the new catalogue. The new catalogue is to be launched March-April time.Remember visit www.teamsportdirect.co.uk for your kits/equipment/boots and more.

Welcome

2012-01-17T14:46:00.000Z

Welcome to the Team Sport Direct Blog!

This blog is designed to give our customers more knowledge about products/release dates and sports news, but we also want your opinion too. Let us know what your favourite products are; from new boots to old football kits, literally anything.

So who are Team Sport Direct?
Team Sport Direct is an online store in which clubs and individuals from across the globe can purchase sports equipment and teamwear, for football, rugby and cricket. We are based in Northampton and can be contacted via email: sales@teamsportdirect.co.uk, or by phone: 01604 239857.

To see our products, please visit www.teamsportdirect.co.uk