Nike Airforces Ones

Nike Airforces Ones

Nike Airforces Ones

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 Johnston began to combine his lifelong passions of football and design. The result was a prototype football boot that was to become the Adidas Predator.

Adidas Predator History – Craig Johnston's Original Design

Like many youth academy football players, Craig Johnston began his career cleaning the football boots of the senior professionals. However, Johnston took a greater interest in his chores than most. From this early age he began trying on the various boots, testing them for comfort, immediately realizing that some were good and others obviously bad.

Through his career, Craig Johnston developed new methods for enhancing training regimes and his personal diet, and maintained his belief that football boots could and should be better.