Football: boots, balls and goalkeeping gear
Football is the department this store is known for. You will find boots for every surface, from the smallest youth size up to senior, and everything else you need to get on the pitch.
What you will find here
The boot wall is the first thing you notice when you walk in: boots for artificial grass, for natural grass and for indoor, side by side on lit shelves. Puma, adidas and Nike are all three there.
Next to them are balls, shin guards and goalkeeper gloves. Sizes run from the smallest youth size up to senior, so a nine-year-old and a senior player are both sorted in the same visit.
The surface decides the sole
Artificial grass, natural grass or indoor: where you play decides which sole you need. That is where the conversation starts, along with how often you play and how your foot is built.
We would rather have that conversation than hand you a box. If a cheaper boot fits you better, we will say so. A boot that fits the box does not necessarily fit the foot.
Try them on before you pay
You try the boots on here, you walk around in them and you put two pairs side by side. Whatever you pick goes home with you the same day: no delivery date, no return label, no ordering a second pair just to compare.
Who this department is for
Most people who come in play for a club in Parkstad or just across the border. Parents looking for a first pair of boots, players who need a new pair halfway through the season, keepers coming in to try on gloves.
If your club is with us, its members get a discount in store. Looking for a full kit for the whole team? That is arranged over on the team sports department.
From a first pair of boots to a fifth
You buy a first pair differently from a fifth. With young players it is about enough room to grow without the boot sloshing around, and about a sole that suits the pitch their club trains on. Around here, that is artificial grass more often than not.
If your child grows out of them halfway through the season, or a pair gives up in November, you simply come back in. There is no season to wait for: we are open seven days a week and you can park at the door.