The Historical Spike Loved by Heroes Vol.1 - The Significance of Vintage Spike -
This time, thanks to the publication of Maradona (God) 's book on spike, we can write articles about old spikes even in King Gear. I think that Maradona began to focus on football in the mid-1980s when Maradona became a football god from Argentina's ace and I think that it is still hot for society today. However, please forgive that God is detailed about only the spikes of the active era, contents are very limited information. Well, as this is the first time, I'd like to touch Puma "Parameco" (right in Figure 1), which you surely know if you are the site viewer.
Hiroaki Konishi
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2018/03/28
Figure 1 on the right is Puma "Parameco", on the left is Adidas "Copamundial"
(I started spike blog.https://maradonaboots.com/）When Kinggia began, there were also a lot of articles by the organizers Kaneko and Totsuka, spikes of old players and continued to be made for more than 30 years, as well as much information about Parameco and Copamundial, which is still popular among general players had.
正直、神のスパイク話題も多かったので、ちょうどその頃に 本の原稿を書いていた私は、その記事を見て意味もなくあせっていた覚えがあります。
In Figure 2 I wrote the information of the 2009 soccer magazine, but Parameco was second in the J-Leagher spiking ranking, but at the moment there are also rumors of discontinuing production (Paragecircolite of later generations is already out of print)
図2 週刊サッカーマガジン2009.9.29号p34
どの種類のスパイクでも早かれ遅かれ製造中止になる可能性はあり、一般の方で、ずっと同じモデルを履き続けてプレーしたい方は数足買い だめする必要があるでしょう。また、今までの思い出として最後に新品を持っておくと、後にきっと買っておいてよかったと思うはずです。
In my case, I was most keen on football because I was in college and there was no money at that time, so I was wearing only low-priced bargain spikes.
しかし、憧れはやはり神が使っていたタイプで、それは例外なく西ドイツ製プーマの高級モデルでした。
大学サッカー部生活の最後にはそれを何とか購入してプレーし、この上ない自己満足に浸ったわけですが、引退後にはどこかにいってしまい ました。もちろん、思い出として同じモデルをもう一足買っておこうという考えもありませんでした。
約30年後に当時のモデルを再度手に入れたいと思った昨今、いろいろ探し回って手に入れた1つが図3の左です。
右は少し昔のパラメヒコでシュータンのデザインや字体が図1の物と異なっています。 （パラメヒコの変遷やカラーについては yuta_collecter さんのインスタがおすすめです）
Figure 3 The left is an example of PUMA SPIKE made in West Germany, the right is the Parameco a bit earlier
正直、どちらも見た目はほとんど変わりませんし、サッカーがマイナースポーツだった80年代の日本では、よほどサッカーがお好きだった方でないと、２つの違いはわからないと思います。
「WEST GERMANY」という文字もどちらにも入っていますから、昔のパラメヒコは西ドイツ製と誤解する若い方もおられるかもしれません。
80年代は工業製品全般の品質が飛躍的に向上しましたが、映像や画像はまだアナログの時代で、文字もメディアに残すよりも紙媒体が主流 でした。サッカースパイクの情報もカタログがあれば充分と思われますが、そのカタログも昔は年に数回刷新されてかさばるため、デジタル化 される前に廃棄されてしまい、残っている物が非常に少ないようです（図４）。
In front of Figure 4, valuable old Puma spikes and shoes catalogs in Puma Japan collection. The back is a succession model using King Kazu players. The rightmost spike is a paramedico which made many toe stitches of a sledding player custom-made. Both of them were filmed favorably by PUMA Japan.
The catalog photograph at that time mainly shows only two patterns of upper and sole, you can not see from every direction by moving the cursor on the PC like the present.
So it can be said that the real thing remains is very important to obtain detailed information on the spike at the time. I think there is a doubt as to whether such information as old-fashioned spikes is necessary.
For football players the spike is the only tool that you can choose and the players of the national athletes are memorized (recorded) clearly forever, but also about the spikes used at the time (especially in the analog age) that were chosen as nominees, I think that you should be able to know the manufacturer as well as details. Of course, the use spike of God is preserved in the future forever, but even if only it remains, the general public can not easily see or touch it.
After all, it will be about grasping manufacturers and colors. Also, since the nominated players will receive a spike, it seems that they will only leave something that is very memorable.
So, I am thinking to find a model that is close to the existing God spikes and I will be in now. Fortunately, besides PUMA, it is now supposed to be able to pick up some rare spikes and I would like to introduce them as finely as possible as long as I can continue.
Figure 5 Valuable old Puma spike from Puma Japan.
This one was more interesting for me than the spike in Figure 4.
Next time we will deliver "About PUMA SPIKE made in West Germany for the first time in about 30 years."
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