Lightness Makes Greatness
26 February 2010
Lightness makes greatness, and with the new Nike national team kits re-writing the rules for elite apparel, players will be even better prepared to write history in South Africa.
The new jerseys cool the body 7 percent more than the previous incarnations; it's 13 percent lighter and stretches 10 percent more to create one of the most permeable DriFit fabric that's cut to fit better than ever before.
"It's not about light weight," Design Director for Football Thom Walker says. "It's about the right weight."
What weight remains comes from the 8 plastic bottles used to create each of the 100 p ...
Zlatan gets Wired for Speed
10 March 2009
With Inter Milan’s crunch encounter with Manchester United just days away, Zlatan Ibrahimovic got the training ground delivery he’d been waiting for – and the one that United’s defenders had been dreading. To the untrained eye, it may look like an ordinary boot, but h ...
Pato On Point
26 March 2008
Every Brazilian from the time they pop into the world dreams of scoring for the national team.
Well, on Wednesday, March 26, Pato's dream became a reality. The 18-year-old striker laced up his orange Vapors before the match as a Serie A star. He unlaced them afterward as an international s ...