Adidas Samba - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The popularity of the Adidas Samba as a soccer shoe has caused it to transcend the soccer courts and move into popular culture, mostly worn as a fashion sneaker, and makes many appearances both on the silver screen and on television.

Some of these appearances include:

• Owen Wilson's character Randy Dupree wears a pair of Adidas Samba K (a classic model that uses kangaroo leather) virtually the whole time in the 2006 film You, Me, and Dupree.
• The song "Olé" by The Bouncing Souls features the lines: Lace your Sambas, get on out/Off we go to kick it about.
• Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwicky wears a pair of black Sambas in the 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
• The shoe was a favorite in the 1970s Liverpool football casuals/scally subculture; indeed the shoe is an icon in the UK along with Reebok Classics.
• Every football player in the 2000 film Remember the Titans can be seen wearing Sambas either on the field or around.
• Kevin Seconds, lead singer of American hardcore punk 7 Seconds is an avid fan of classic black Sambas and wears them at all live performances.
• Ashton Kutcher wears Adidas Sambas in the 2010 film Valentine's Day and on That 70's Show.
• Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen wore white Sambas during the live performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody".
• Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley is seen wearing a pair of white Country 0 with green stripes in the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop.
• Adrian Grenier's character Vincent Chase, in HBO's Entourage, is seen wearing white Sambas with black stripes in Season 6 episode 10 "Berried Alive".
• Jamie Bell's character Joey Cassidy in the 2012 film Man on a Ledge could be easily recognized wearing black Adidas Samba classic throughout the story.
• Steven Yeun's character Glenn wears a pair of black Sambas in several episodes of AMC's The Walking Dead.

These have the Adidas Samba Super:

• Gary Windass in Coronation Street.
• Aiden Scotcher in Waterloo Road.
• Ewan Mcgregor wears a pair of burgundy adidas Samba Super Suede in Trainspotting in the role of Mark Renton, 1996.