Ronaldinho goes golden
Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain -- Ronaldinho, the 2004 soccer player of the year and a key member of Brazil's 2002 World Cup champion, will go golden this weekend.

Ronaldinho will wear real gold in his soccer boots in Barcelona's game against Real Zaragoza. Nike has developed a special gold and white version of the shoes Ronaldinho normally wears. It will feature real 24-carat gold applied to the Nike logo.

Previously, Michael Johnson wore a gold track spike in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova wore tennis shoes laced with gold at Wimbledon this year.

The boots feature a gold tongue with an 'R' embroidered in silver color on the right boot -- inspired by the necklace Ronaldinho wears -- and an embroidered No. 10 on the left. The heel is embossed with five gold stars to honor Brazil's five World Cup wins, and the boot also includes a laser-patterned sock liner with the word ``Ronaldinho'' on it.

``I can't wait to wear the gold boots against Zaragoza,'' he said. ``We were wondering how to give the boot a personal touch, so they copied the design of my neck chain to reproduce the 'R' and added my number 10. I got the joy of taking part in the design, so they are all mine and personalized.''

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Thats crazy...i need to see those boots when he wears them.
Will the game be on sky sports does anyone know?

Let's go for gold!

Lol, I will wait it!

that would look class wondr how much they would cost to buy

roni Boots

I digged the white and red ones more. I have those for indoor.

Those boots look wicked! Cant wait to see them in action

is this the real boots hes going to wear r did u make it ?

unbelivable

Awesome, its like Zidane when he got his predators in the gold colourway. Anyway good on Ronnie, i wanna see those boots in action.

Ronaldinho Pic

wow crazy boots i would love a pair of those

5 words: mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
those look rediculously crazy. i would pay to just hold a pair

I bet he has to keep them in a safe or something similar.

are we gonna be able to buy those????

when was this?? got pics?

hahaha... no. Unless you want to buy some 24 carat gold and customise your own legends

anyway. Good find Adriano#10

Nike has made only 2 pairs of this shoe. Both for Ronaldinho.

I doubt they will sell these to people. They would cost a fucking fortune. And as much as I would want them, I'd probably get robbed.

yea...who thought of this idea? i mean what would he do after he wore them? whats the point? i mean i would love to wear them but not just for one game.

Those are going to rack up a BIG fortune for charity auctions and such.

omg only nike! hah they DO come up with some pretty crazy ideas sometimes. but i like this one. those are AWSOME. ya ill never see even one in person but its all good. haha.

another pic

Ok so on tennis shoes is one thing, but he has to kick with those on! What if he goes to kick and it all falls off? Seriously if youre going to wear bling, put it on your neck or in your ears. Or, even better, leave it in the ghetto.

Guys, Isn't it just stiched and stuff with gold thread and etc?

It's not like anything will fall off, and its not like some thread and gold material would cost that much?

I think its just the special colour and the fact that it has some real gold in it that makes it special.

Only Nike...wouldn't mind a pair of those, shame Nike are gonna just make 2 pairs for Ronnie. Suppose it's just like the Michael Johnson sprinting spikes.

Arsenax I think your right, after all gold on the side and front of a boot would weigh a hell of a lot!

from far away u could make those in nike id apart from the r on his tongue, it looks like " varsity maize" in the pics

They should have made them all gold with a white nike tick

pretty kooooooool

another spell

even if it doesnt have the real gold i like the colorway aloottt

u guys im sure the gold ddoesn't weight it dwon nearly as much as u all think. i mean, gold, esp pure 24 carat gold, is VERY maleable. so im sure u could make it VER VERy thin, therefore u have more surface area with the same amount of mass. get it? i don't think they are using gold thread, cuz then the swoosh would be like embroidered, and it doesn't appear to be embroidered. but i don't really know any other genius methods of putting gold into ur shoes.
PS. i've ehar of place that make 24 carat gold and put it in ur food. and u can eat it. haha. just a side note.

Ok i think im not really getting it. How are they using gold? With Sharpova's shoes they like encrusted them with diamonds and gold inlays and stuff. I thought they were putting real gold pieces on them or something. Maybe they should do something worthwhile and make a stand up/speak up edition, you know, actually support a cause.

Its like a gold thread i think cos on the England shirt they have a silver thread woven into the top for a climate control thing.

But look on Nike football thers a great pic up on ther. And a short video of R10 playing in them

Those boots are sweet...

The tackles will be flying in from the Zaragoza players

we might be able to buy them if you look at the pic it says ronaldinho tiempo legend


coming soon

yeah i'd be more then happy to pay $4000-$6000 for a boot, actually i better order 2, 1 in fg and in 1 sg.

These are the zidane 1's, sum1 put a post up on here bowt em but this was ages ago

^^^those are real nice, but they have'nt got real gold like ronnie has on his boots.

u can buy it on pds, without the gold thou as in without the real gold

can you make a link?

Just go on www.prodirectsoccer.com then go to Nike and Scroll down to them.

I well want these! Not only are they beautiful they also have R 10 on them! ill have them definatley by xmas unles i can save up for them before then

They just zoomed in on them in the Barca game.

Nice boots. Very nice.

thanks for posting that, made me look for the game on asiaplate.com and now I'm watching it too

are they gonna come out on soccer.com any 1 have any idea

dont mean to jack the thread, but holy shit anyone see messi warming up? hope he goes in...

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There they are...beautiful boots.

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Thwere coming out too buy but not with the actual 24crt Gold, shame i found this out the day after i bought my black/white colour way i would have waited otherwise, would go very nive with my yelow club colours

Read the other posts they are already out to buy

those go nice with the barcelona kit. i love taht color.

These boots are unneeded. There are other, perfectly good ones for him to wear, yet he wears boots with gold. Bit of a poser, if you ask me.