Football boots are read as being equipped and ready to play your part. Lacing them up reflects preparation; lost or ill-fitting ones, feeling unready for a role you are asked to take.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.