adidas F50 Messi "Triunfo Estelar"

The Adidas F50 Messi "Triunfo Estelar" ("Stellar Triumph") is Lionel Messi's second signature F50 colorway of the revived franchise, launched in the autumn of 2024 as the successor to the gold "Triunfo Dorado" boot he wore at Copa América 2024. "Triunfo Estelar" is notable for two reasons beyond its own design: it is widely credited as the boot that formally launched adidas's "Messi +10" program, under which ten of the world's best emerging young players, most prominently Barcelona and Spain teenage sensation Lamine Yamal, were selected to wear the same signature silhouette alongside Messi. It also functions as a deliberate homage to one of the most famous boots of Messi's career, the 2010 F50 Adizero "Chameleon," reversing that boot's color scheme roughly 14 years later.

Footy Headlines first reported the boots in a May 2024 article, but the confirmed retail and on-pitch launch came later in the year: adidas officially unveiled "Triunfo Estelar" with a release tied to October 10, 2024, which adidas branded as "Messi Day" to mark the occasion. footballboots.co.uk's Messi boot archive places Messi's wear window for this colorway across September–November 2024. Messi was first spotted in the boots slightly ahead of the official unveiling, debuting them on-pitch during Inter Miami's September 29, 2024 draw with Charlotte FC, before the full commercial and marketing rollout in October.

"Triunfo Estelar" carried over the core F50 technology platform introduced with the franchise's 2024 relaunch: a Hybrid Touch upper for a soft, controlled touch and flexibility, a knit "burrito"-style tongue offering a wider opening for easy entry alongside a locked-in fit, and a Speedframe 360 outsole tuned for agility and traction on firm ground. As with "Triunfo Dorado," adidas and SoccerBible both noted the boot's specifications were matched to Messi's actual match-worn footwear rather than being a purely cosmetic signature edition.

The boot uses a white base with black and Unity Purple accents, offset by high-visibility yellow detailing across the upper and outsole. Multiple outlets, including Footy Headlines, described this scheme as a deliberate reversal of the colors used on Messi's 2010 F50 Adizero "Chameleon" boots (the boots he wore during a pivotal, trophy-laden stretch of his Barcelona career), effectively flipping the original's palette as a nod to that earlier design roughly a decade and a half later.

The central story of "Triunfo Estelar" is the launch of adidas's "Messi +10" initiative, timed to "Messi Day" on October 10, 2024. Alongside Messi, adidas named ten young elite players who would also wear the boot: Lamine Yamal, Claudio Echeverri, Jaedyn Shaw, Antonio Nusa, Joel Ndala, Linda Caicedo, Vicky López, Kenan Yıldız, Assane Ouédraogo, and Eliesse Ben Seghir. Coverage from outlets including LatestLY explicitly framed this as Messi personally "picking" or endorsing the next generation of stars to carry his signature boot, positioning the launch as much as a passing-of-the-torch statement as a product drop, with Lamine Yamal, then emerging as one of the sport's brightest young talents at Barcelona and with the Spain national team, the most prominently featured of the group. The design's homage to the 2010 "Chameleon" boot also tied the release to Messi's own legacy, reinforcing the "stellar" (estelar) framing of the name as a nod to his star status and history-making career.

Messi debuted the boots on-pitch during Inter Miami's September 29, 2024 draw with Charlotte FC, ahead of the full public unveiling on Messi Day (October 10, 2024). The wear window (September–November 2024) covered the closing stretch of Inter Miami's 2024 MLS regular season, in which the club, with Messi contributing heavily, won the Supporters' Shield as the league's top regular-season team. Sources reviewed did not identify a single specific goal or trophy explicitly and exclusively tied to this colorway; its significance in Messi's boot history rests primarily on the launch of the Messi +10 youth program and its design tribute to the 2010 Chameleon boot rather than one signature on-pitch moment.

"Triunfo Estelar" flips the 2010 Chameleon's palette fourteen years on and, more importantly, launched the Messi +10 program: the same silhouette handed to Lamine Yamal and nine other prodigies as an explicit passing of the torch. On foot it's the same excellent 2024 F50 Elite as Triunfo Dorado: soft textured upper, agile plate, burrito tongue, with the usual narrow-fit warning. It lacks a single defining match moment (its window covered Inter Miami's Supporters' Shield run), so its long-term collector story rests on the +10 connection, which could age very well indeed if Yamal's trajectory holds.