Adidas Samba OG 'Cloud White & Collegiate Green' White Leather Upper, Green 3-Stripes, Grey Suede T-Toe Overlay, Green Heel Patch, Gold SAMBA Lettering & Gum Rubber Outsole Iconic Indoor Football Heritage Lifestyle Sneakers
Adidas Samba OG 'Cloud White & Collegiate Green'
There are shoes that become popular, and there are shoes that become permanent. The Adidas Samba is the latter — a shoe with a seventy-year history that has never once needed to reinvent itself because it was right the first time. The Samba OG in 'Cloud White & Collegiate Green' is the original colour combination in its purest form: white leather, green 3-Stripes, grey suede T-toe, gum sole. No additions, no revisions, no need. Collegiate green is one of those colours that the Samba has owned for decades — a deep, saturated, proper green that is neither too bright nor too dark, sitting in the exact register where sporting heritage and everyday elegance meet. Against the clean white leather upper, it has the same rightness as a grass pitch against a white kit, of moss against stone. The gum sole beneath it all provides the Samba’s most recognisable visual signature — warm amber, semi-translucent, the sole that launched a thousand imitations and has never been surpassed. This is the Samba at its most essential. Which is to say: at its best.
- Colorway: Cloud White / Collegiate Green / Light Grey / Gold / Gum
- Silhouette: Adidas Samba OG — the legendary low-profile indoor football sneaker first introduced in 1950 and one of the most enduringly iconic and best-selling adidas models in history; defined by its clean white leather upper, the grey suede T-toe reinforcement overlay, the 3-Stripes on the side panel, the distinctive padded tongue, and the signature gum rubber outsole; the OG designation marks this as the original, unmodified Samba construction — faithful in every detail to the model that has remained in continuous production for over seven decades
- Upper: Cloud white smooth leather upper — a clean, bright, premium white smooth leather that covers the entire main upper construction including the vamp, quarter panels, and heel counter; the white leather provides the Samba’s characteristic clean, sporty base that has made the shoe as appropriate off the pitch as on it; collegiate green leather 3-Stripes — the iconic adidas heritage stripe in a deep, rich collegiate green leather; this specific shade of green — saturated and proper, neither lime nor forest but the exact green of tradition — has been one of the most celebrated and historically significant Samba colourway elements since the model’s earliest decades; the green leather 3-Stripes cut across the white side panel with clean precision, creating the Samba’s most recognisable lateral profile; light grey suede T-toe reinforcement overlay — the Samba’s most distinctive structural detail; the T-shaped suede overlay at the toe box and vamp that reinforces the upper and provides the tactile, material-contrast detail that has defined the Samba’s construction since its football origins; rendered in light grey suede, it creates a subtle, tonal material contrast against the white leather that adds depth and premium character to the construction; white round laces for a clean, bright upper finish
- Signature Details: Collegiate green leather heel patch — the small heel tab in the same collegiate green as the 3-Stripes, completing the green accent story at the rear of the shoe with the adidas branding; gold 'SAMBA' lettering and gold adidas Trefoil on the side panel — the model name in warm gold metallic on the lateral side panel alongside the gold Trefoil, the Samba-specific branding detail that adds a warm premium accent to the white-and-green construction and confirms the OG designation with heritage authority; padded tongue with adidas Originals label
- Branding: Gold 'SAMBA' lettering and gold adidas Trefoil on the side panel; green leather heel patch with adidas branding; adidas Originals woven tongue label; adidas Originals branding on the insole; collegiate green 3-Stripes throughout
- Midsole: White low-profile midsole — the Samba’s characteristically thin, flat midsole that keeps the shoe close to the ground in the tradition of indoor football footwear; the slim midsole profile is a defining element of the Samba’s low, sleek silhouette and distinguishes it from the thicker-soled heritage runners in the adidas archive
- Outsole: Gum rubber outsole — the Samba’s most iconic feature; a warm, semi-translucent amber gum rubber outsole with the classic Samba multi-directional indoor court traction pattern; the gum sole has been the Samba’s defining visual and functional signature since its introduction, providing the warm amber base tone that completes the white-green-gum colour story and delivers the indoor court grip that gave the shoe its original purpose
Available in a full range of US and EU sizes. A cloud white leather Adidas Samba OG with collegiate green leather 3-Stripes and heel patch, grey suede T-toe overlay, gold SAMBA lettering, gold Trefoil, white round laces and gum rubber outsole — the most iconic and historically significant Samba colorway for fans of the original indoor football heritage construction, the classic white-and-green colour story, the legendary gum sole, and the shoe that has been right for seventy years and shows no signs of stopping.