Get your foot pullin up the pitch! Runnin so fast! Flipping around kickin the ball all over the place! When you’re sponsored by someone like Umbro football shoes, that’s what they like to see you do: go nuts! Go wild! They have you wear their football super-shoe, the “Speciali,” too, for ultimate football ballin power. And then they get smart. Real smart. They have a contest where you design the bottom of the shoe.

And then they stay smart. Real smart. They have D-brained specialists, aka the people I love to chum with, design addicts, set up real nice with a judges chair so that the most lovely shoes get gotten for the winners spot. And here they are!

Take a gaze through the gallery and feel free to leave a vote in whichever way you want for which one(s) YOU think are the best. We’ll make sure Umbro sees your opinionations and informed decisions before the very end.

After thousands of entries, here at Umbro we can unveil the finalists in our competition to customise the sole on a pair of Specialis. The response we had was amazing, with a fantastic range of designs from different ages and different countries around the world. These are the final 14, chosen from the thousands of different designs by a team of judges which included Umbro designers Stuart Semple and Stewart Scott-Curran, and Esquire’s art director David McKendrick. Initially we planned to have 11 winners, but the points system used by the judges to pick their favourites meant that we ended up with four designs tied in 11th place!

The very end is the best: not only do the winners winners get their own shoes made to keep, for their very own, (this goes for all the winners seen in this post,) they get their shoes worn by de big time football soccer champeens! Eternal glory!

Each of the winners will have a pair of Specialis with their design on the sole made up for them, but that’s not all. Michael Owen, Gael Clichy and John Terry will each pick their favourites from the final 15 and wear them on the pitch later this year in a Premiership match. – Nov / 2 / 2009

Let’s hope the winners winners designs don’t blind the competition (or let’s hope they do?) This post is been kicked right straight through the right and left wing defense of the World Famous Design Junkies sports category.