Nike5 Gato Street | The All-Purpose Soccer Shoe

Soccer, or football for my European and South American readers, is the world’s most popular sport, but being that the field tends to be over 100 yards long and nearly as wide, avid players have grown up finding ways to play in smaller areas and with fewer than the typically mandatory 11 players per side. For players who regularly test their mettle in 5-a-side, Futsal or any other derivation of the beautiful game that reduces size, space or players, Nike has created the Nike5 Gato Street.

The shoe was engineered with the smaller games’ unique aspects in mind, be it extra traction and cushioning for those non-grass surfaces, an improved surface area for greater control and touch in some of those games that put a premium on sleight-of-foot, or simply a reworked outsole to maximize speed. And of course Nike didn’t forget that playing in the streets, shoes take a bit more of a beating. The Nike5 Gato Street ramps up the durability to ensure that they’ll not only be the best non-association football shoe, they’ll be the best for a long time. Check out many detailed shots after the jump, and look for the Nike 5 Gato Street release on April 1st at Nike retailers worldwide.

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