Cristiano Ronaldo likes to be different, so when most of the Nike endorsed players are brandishing a retro coloured football boot, Ronaldo goes…… green!

Avid football boot fans will have seen Cristiano Ronaldo’s football boots in Portugal’s opener against Turkey and against the Czech’s. Ronaldo is wearing the Mercurial Vapor IV football boots in Euro 2008. Unlike most of the Nike endorsed players, who are wearing the Euro 2008 retro brown collection, Ronaldo is wearing a unique green pair, which, like any good woman will tell you, matches perfectly with the trim on his Portugal shirt.

Wonderful, Wizard, Winger, Winker or as Man Utd fans may feel right now Wan… ahem… Whatever you call him he’s the best player in the world and here are his football boots.

Cristiano Ronaldo Football Boots

Mercurial Vapor IV

The Mercurial Vapor IV was built with direct input from players such as Cristiano Ronaldo.

Players: Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Theo Walcott, Ryan Babel + many more
Price: £119.99

Availability: 1/7/2008
Colour: Green/White/Silver/Red
Sizes: 6.5-12
Weight: 230g

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With every team having played in EURO 2008, we look at the statistics to find out who the top performers are.

One round of matches gone and Spain, Holland and the Germans all look strong. Portugal, the Czech Republic and Sweden won’t be too disappointed with a win in their first game either.

Footy Boots have teamed up with the Castrol Performance Index for the duration of EURO 2008, so that we can delve inside and find out what the stat’s say about the players performances so far…..

Goal Keepers

Not surprisingly Petr Cech leads the table between the sticks. The world’s best goalkeeper leads the way from Edwin Van der Sar and Jens Lehmann.

1 Petr Cech, Czech Republic, Chelsea, 1795 points

2 Edwin Van der Sar, Holland, Manchester United, 910 points

3 Jens Lehmann, Germany, Stuttgart, 905 points

The worlds best goalkeeper Petr Cech wears Predator Powerswerve football boots

How do goalkeepers score points? Find out here - goalkeepers statistics Euro 2008

Defenders

Swede Petter Hansson heads this group, following their destruction of the negative Greek side. Hansonn’s goal and the goal’s by defender’s Pepe of Portugal and van Bronkhurst of Holland puts them at the head of the charts.

1 Petter Hansson, Sweden, Rennes, 1083 points
2 Pepe, Portugal, Real Madrid, 743 points
3 Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Holland, Feyenoord, 654 points

Leading defender Petter Hansson wears V1.08 X-ray football boots

How do defender’s score points? Find out here - defenders statistics Euro 2008

Midfielders

The creators are also goal led. Interestingly Cesc Fabregas sneaks into the top three, despite only seeing 27 minutes of action in the first game for Spain against Russia.

1 Raul Meireles, Portugal, FC Porto, 875 points
2 Wesley Sneijder, Holland, Real Madrid, 827 points
3 Cesc Fabregas, Spain, Arsenal, 818 points

Leading midfielder Raul Meireles wears V-Konstrukt II football boots

How do midfielder’s score points? Find out here - midfielders statistics Euro 2008

Strikers

Spain’s David Villa hit a hat trick, the first one in this competition since Kluivert 8 years ago, that means the hit man is top striker at the moment and the top points scorer overall after round one.

1 David Villa, Spain, Valencia, 1944 points
2 Ruud van Nistelrooy, Holland, Real Madrid, 1173 points
3 Lukas Podolski, Germany, FC Bayern Munchen, 1092 points

Top marksman David Villa wears F50.8 TUNiT football boots

How do striker’s score points? Find out here - strikers statistics Euro 2008

Adidas are bigging it up over in Austria & Switzerland.

With Euro 2008 kicking off tomorrow, Adidas have launched their latest marketing stunts in the hosting nations.

1. Zurich Station

Come out of Zurich station and you will be greeted by a huddle of 11 giant footballers;

Ballack and Lahm (both Germany), Van Persie (Netherlands), Cech (Czech Republic), Charisteas (Greece), Villa (Spain), Benzema and Vieira (both France), Chivu (Romania), Ivanschitz (Austria) and Barnetta (Switzerland).

Swiss locals are reported to be particularly pleased by the installation. Renowned for building the finest clocks and watches in the world, the Swiss locals will now be able to check the accuracy of their instruments at 8:00 am and 6:00 pm, daily. For not only do the players stand arm in arm and stand 17 metres high, they also cheer for each other at the top of their voices, in their own language twice a day.

2. Vienna Leisure Park, Prater

The Vienna Leisure Park’s ferris wheel now sports Petr Cech, supersized to 42 metres.

We think its overkill and that the Swiss would struggle to get past a ‘mini Cech’ in their opener tomorrow (SWITZERLAND v CZECH REPUBLIC).

3. MuseumsQuartier in Vienna

The final part of the Adidas Euro 2008 trilogy is also featured in Vienna, this time at the MuseumsQuartier. And what you may ask can Adidas plant at the cultural complex of Vienna? Why giant football boots of course, 16 in fact!

Adidas have designed an individual Euro 2008 football boot for each of the 16 participating nations featuring the different national colours, details and facts of the respective country. These 16 car sized models are on display in front of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna.

Prior to their placement, the oversized football boots took a long journey on two Adidas trucks through both host countries, visiting the various national teams’ quarters. There, the individualised football boots were handed over to the players who will wear the shoes during Euro 2008.

When the truck got to Geneva, Portugal’s base, Cristiano Ronaldo immediately got on the phone to ask his agent if Nike could construct him a similar sized football boot to match his ego.