
We went to the Futliga studio to talk to Bacalhau and Gabi, who both love a very specific kind of shoe: Soccer Boots. Futliga is an amateur soccer league. And its YouTube channels focuses on the sport and on soccer boots, a big passion for many Brazilians. That’s were Bacalhau and Gabi come in. They’re the hosts of the Futliga channel. Bacalhau founded the channel with his brother Fabio, and Gabi has come to join the team.


What is Futliga?


Gabi, when did you join the channel?


What it’s like to create soccer content here in Brazil? Since it’s such a competitive theme here right?

Today you have a good relationship with Nike. What was the first big project that you did together?


“Everybody thinks I’m crazy because I spent so much money end time with soccer boots. And when we created the channel, I actually took some time to bring up the soccer boots theme, because in my head I thought I was the only one that cared about this stuff.”
How’s the process of inserting the soccer boot theme into the channel?

And what about you Gabi, are you also crazy about soccer boots?


“A funny thing that happened was when we did the challenge video with Raquel, and I was wearing this boot on the video, and after I posted the picture off the ball with the boots on my stories. We put that on this video and there were a lot of comments like ” for the love of God ask Nike to send you a new pair of boots”, “damn Gabi, those are some old boots” (laughs). Come on people these are my babies, you can’t talk about them that way (laughs).”
Why did you guys pick these Mercurials for this Kickstory?


If you could have any boot you ever saw, which one would you choose?
GABIIn my head, black boots are such a big icon, they are so historic. Can you look at the players from back in the 70s, Brazil wasn’t even 3-time champion, they didn’t even have half of the technology there is today, but they’re so moralizing you know? I don’t know if those would be the ones I pick for the rest of my life, but it’s something that has a lot of history. I have this passion for black boots.
BACALHAUI would choose the very first Mercurial which is just legendary to me. There’s this famous picture of Ronaldo – everyone who likes soccer boots knows that this picture it’s the most legendary of them all – which is a picture of when Ronaldo won the World Cup and he hung his boots around his neck. It was the first mercurial made just for him for the World Cup, made for a Brazilian and to top it all off we won the World Cup. I would choose that one for all that it means four all Brazilians.

Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly III e Nike Mercurial Superfly VI Academy Futsal
Got in: 2012 and 2018
Owners: Gabi and Bacalhau
Photos by: Pérola Dutra