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What Are The Best Football Boots For Strikers?

What are the Top Cleats For Your Position? In this video, we rank the Best Boots for Strikers, show positives and negatives and which professional players wear them. We cover classics like the Nike Vapor, football newcomers like the Phantom GT and Adidas X and hidden gems like the Puma Ultra. Which one is going to be crowned our best football boot for strikers? 

Nike Mercurial Superfly

Soft upper out of the box

Synthetic multi-layer upper “vaportised”

Decent foot lockdown

Stiff and responsive outsole

Nike Phantom GT

Flavors of Football, Taste of LA Edition: LaLa Land Cocktail

The18 and 1800® Tequila present our "Flavors of Football, Taste of LA Edition" cocktail, inspired by Los Angeles and LAFC — and voted on by you! The winning recipe chosen by fans was the "LaLa Land Cocktail," a refreshing and easy-drinking tequila cocktail ready to wow friends with taste and looks, featuring 1800® Tequila's smooth and tasteful Cristalino Añejo tequila. Try it for yourself and be your own hero at your next soccer watch party.

Tea Time With David Episode 20

The18's David Moore breaks down the week in soccer news while sipping on some tea...it's Tea Time.

Episode 20 Topics include: Mason "Mickey" Mount missing his penalty, US Soccer officially has equal pay for World Cup winnings and game appearances, and newly formed USL2 side, Vermont Green, wins fans with their excellent debut kit.

A Tribute To The Greatest FIFA Intro Song Of All Time

A poorly animated blue rooster walks out pushing an adidas Tricolore ball. 

“We’ll be singing.”

A full-kit wanker in all yellow appears from off screen at a dead sprint. 

“When we’re winning.”

The man’s heading straight for the unsuspecting bird. 

“We’ll be singing.”

He takes aim.

“I get knocked DOWN.”

With all the verve a late-90s Brit Pop song could possibly muster, Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” slams you straight into the action. 

“But I get up again!”

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