I am constantly looking for basketball stores in Europe that have shoes my size. People do not know the struggle I am going through when I try to shop for clothes or basketball shoes. For clothes, if I want them to be long enough, I have to buy 3-xl or sometimes 4-xl. But the problem here is that I am not large, I am just tall. However, finding clothes to wear is not as big of a problem as finding shoes.

Whenever I walk into a store, I don’t even bother looking around. I go straight to the front desk and ask “What is your biggest shoe size in the store?” With a confused look, they say that they have size 14 maybe size 15. For those who do not know, I wear size 17. That’s 51.5 EU. You can imagine that it is pretty hard to find. And if by any miracle they do have a size 17 shoe in the store… it looks like one that has been sitting on the shelf since 1996.

But at manelsanchez.com it was totally different. When I asked if they have size 17 they said yes. In my mind, I thought they maybe had 2 or 3 pairs. When I asked if I can see them, they told me to go choose a model from the shelf and they will bring my size from the back. Now I was the one that was confused.