Adidas always saves its best for a World Cup year and when it showed a knitted football boot last week, we figured that the radical departure represented by the Samba Primeknit (top left) was this ...

Of all the twists and transformations the Adidas Samba has seen in recent years, this may be the most ambitious of them all. Not only is this upcoming Samba style coated in a glossy croc material, but ...