Sports shoe with a striped pattern facilitating ball handling

A sports shoe with an array of elongated ball directing stripes facilitating ball handling, comprising a shoe upper defining a basic surface on the outside of said shoe upper and a sole secured to said shoe upper, wherein the basic surface of the shoe upper comprises a plurality of shooting zones, said shooting zones comprising at least a nose zone (14), an inner shooting zone (15) and an outer shooting zone (16), and wherein at least one of said shooting zones (14, 15, 16) supports a plurality of said ball directing stripes (20), each of said ball directing stripes having a length, and each having a respective width measured normal to said length wherein said length being several times longer than said width, said ball directing stripes (20) being arranged side-by-side beside and being spaced from each other, said ball directing stripes extend out from the surface of the shoe upper, said ball directing stripes extending from said basic surface of the shoe upper to engage a ball, the ball directing stripes (20) defining respective elevated outer surfaces (18), displaced from said basic surface and effectuating increased gripping of the ball compared to the gripping action of the basic surface (17) without said ball directing stripes, said ball directing stripes each defining two edges at their sides, wherein the spaces between said ball directing stripes (20) constitute respective exposed ball directing channels (21) that have respective widths normal to the length of said ball directing stripes defining them, wherein the ball directing channels formed between the ball directing stripes act as spatial tracks whereby a ball impacting said spatial tracks is directed toward following the direction of the contacted exposed ball directing channel, and said at least one shooting zone comprises a group of at least four ball directing stripes (20), said at least four ball directing stripes defining at least three ball directing channels (21) between the ball directing stripes, and in said group the width of the ball directing stripes and/or the width of each ball directing channel continuously changes along its length, wherein the width of the ball directing stripes is at least 3 mm and at most 20 mm and their height is at least 0.4 mm, and the width of said ball directing channels is at most 20 mm.