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Craig Johnston Predator Football Boots History

Adidas Predator history begins with Craig Johnston, inventor of the original Predator football boots prototype, a development that revolutionized football boot design.

The history of Predator football boots is a classic example of design through experience. Craig Johnston played professional football for both Middlesborough and Liverpool FC during the Eighties. In retirement, Craig Fashion Air Max 2016 Red Black On Sale Johnston began to combine his lifelong passions of football and design. However, Johnston took a greater interest in his chores than most. For this, the traditional football boot surface area needed to be changed in order to maximize overall contact with the ball.

Johnston's Predator Football Boot Prototype to Adidas Worldwide ReleaseCraig Johnston invested much of his own money, and hundreds of hours of design and research, into the prototype boot. Johnston eventually found both a combination of boot structure and material that fulfilled his ideas. After five years in development, Predator boots hit their next stumbling block. Johnston Buy Air Max 2016 Black Orange Purple Outlet filmed German football legend Franz Beckenbauer using the boots in the snow in Germany, demonstrating the enhanced grip of the Predators. Soon, Adidas Fashion Air Max 2016 Red Black On Sale sponsored football stars were playing in Nike Air Max Womens the new Predator football boots. Johnston was nominated in the 2004 British Designer of the Year Award for a new football boot innovation. Craig Johnston summed up his quest for the perfect football boot in an interview with Alyson Rudd in The Times (March 8th, 2004): "Can you make a boot that makes someone a better player? No you can't. But you can offer more of what a player wants more grip, more swerve. He wants more of the sweet spot feeling when you hit it and you know it's going in."Related Articles: Cristiano Ronaldo Nike Football Boots Lionel Messi Football Boots from Nike to Adidas