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— The Scout Got da ball back! ”

The Ball-Kicking Boots are a promotional cosmetic item for the Scout. They appear as a pair of team-colored football (soccer) socks and cleats.

When equipped, the Scout's footstep noise is changed to resemble cleats.

With the Ball-Kicking Boots equipped, a team-colored Soccer Ball adorned with all nine class emblems can spawn with the player. This ball can be knocked around in a similar fashion to the Birthday Beach Ball.

This item was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-ordered Football Manager 2012 on Steam before October 21, 2011.

Soccer Ball

Soccer Balls are props that can spawn on maps when players equip with the Ball-Kicking Boots. One team-colored Soccer Ball appears in a team's Spawn the first time in a round that any team member equips with the Ball-Kicking Boots. At most, one RED Soccer Ball and one BLU Soccer Ball can be on a map at one time. (Soccer Balls can also appear for the duration of "Waiting for Players".)

Once spawned, a Soccer Ball remains on the map for the entire remainder of the round, including Humiliation. This means that to put a ball on the map, a player only has to spawn as Scout just long enough to spawn the ball, which is immediate when the Ball-Kicking Boots are equipped. The player can then switch to any class or change to the other side without affecting the Soccer Ball. However, Soccer Balls can be lost to play for the rest of the round if knocked into in normally inaccessible locations, such as Pitfalls, including from Spawns, such as the back walls of the BLU Spawns of Upwards, Mossrock, Mountain Lab, and Monster Bash.

Like the Birthday Beach Ball, Soccer Balls can be knocked around, anywhere around the map, by most attacks by any player that can get in range. Soccer Balls can be strongly pushed by Sandman balls, Explosions and Compression Blasts. Other projectiles, melee attacks, bullets, and pellets push the Soccer Balls less strongly. Some attacks, like Short Circuit primary fire and Flying Guillotine alt-fire, are very weak. Various weapons have no effect, including crossbow bolts, arrows, syringes, and Pyro's flares.

When a Soccer Ball contacts a Payload Cart, it is knocked away, sometimes with great speed.

Painted variants

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Single colors An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint Team colors Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU) Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU) The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU) Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted (RED) Unpainted (BLU)

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

[Undocumented] The Ball-Kicking Boots were added to the game.

October 18, 2011 Patch

Fixed the Ball-Kicking Boots not being able to be used in the Rebuild Headgear recipe.

October 25, 2011 Patch

The Ball-Kicking Boots were made tradable, giftable and available for purchase.

Gallery

The soccer ball on the RED Team.

The soccer ball on the BLU Team.

Promotional artwork featured on the Steam Store page for Football Manager 2012 .

Advertisement on Steam featuring the Ball-Kicking Boots and the Merc's Pride Scarf.