Twenty years ago, adidas and Yohji Yamamoto created a rare beast. Their collaborative Y-3 label released the +F50 Tunit pack ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup (yeah, the one with the Zinedine Zidane headbutt), where artwork of a blue dragon, a tiger, an eagle, and a wolf all snarled from the top of a pair of +F50s. Only a thousand of each feral football boot (“soccer cleats,” as those stateside prefer to call them) were released, with every pair arriving locked in a metal cage rather than a shoebox.

Now, in anticipation of the 2026 World Cup, Y-3 is unleashing this wild shoe once again. However, it has made some updates: Whereas the 2006 collection was meant for the pitch, the re-released F50 replaces studs with a street-ready sneaker sole.

(Also, the pair that Highsnobiety received came in a regular cardboard box rather than a cage.) 

The beast has, to some extent, been tamed, but the new F50’s animalistic teeth-wielding artwork looks every bit as wild as it did back in 2006. 

By obscuring the laces, the shoe allows the art to take center stage, covering almost the entirety of the narrow sneakers with the hairy or scaly print of their corresponding animal. Plus, inside the velcro lace-covering is a graphic celebrating the design’s 20-year anniversary.

Y-3 is keeping the F50 collection’s release date a secret for now, but they’re expected to release in April ahead of the first World Cup game on June 11. 

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