Size M: 220 EURO including shipping
Size XL + short XL: 220 EURO including shipping.
Combined items: 400 EURO including shipping
Items are in Bayern, Germany
August 26, 2012
December 24, 2010
Adidas Predator World Cup 1994
SOLD
Anyone interested with my football shoes? Wanted to sell them because I have found my size.
The condition is never-worn with no used signs on the kangaroo leather.
The rubber surface is 70% shining like in the picture.
The size is 7 GB/ 40 2/3 / 7 1/2 USA.
Comes with tag, small info book, original box and stud remover(not in picture).
The studs are the same in the picture ( for soft ground)
This is the 1st version of Predator which to be used during World Cup 1994 in USA.
I’m selling at 150 GBP excluding shipment.
I prefer buyer from Europe and UK because it is easier to deal with the shipment.
Please add extra 10 gbp for signed shipment.
People in other countries (Malaysia, Indonesia etc) also can buy but the shoes can only be shipped early March 2011.
More info/pictures at this website: Predator 1994
Email me for anything: zaimasyraf@gmail.com
Players who used the shoes during World Cup 1994:
Jürgen Klinsmann
Karl-Heinz-Riedle
Thomas Häßler
Ronald Koeman (1989-95 FC Barcelona player)
Ronald De Boer (1998-2000 FC Barcelona player)
Craig Johnston Predator Football Boots History
The History of Adidas Predators from Concept to Design to Production
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.
Later, coaching children in Australia, Johnston had his eureka moment: “…I was telling them that they had to grip and bite into the ball like a table tennis bat to swerve it.” The children replied that their boots were leather, not rubber, and didn’t grip the ball in the rain.
History of Adidas Predators – Origins of the Predator Football Boot
Contemplating this, Johnston returned home and took the rubber off a table tennis bat and stuck the material onto a pair of his own football boots: “Immediately I went outside again and kicked the ball, I could hear a squeak when the rubber engaged with the polyurethane of the ball” (quotes taken from an interview featured at http://www.designmuseum.org).
This realization led to the belief that a material could be used in order to increase grip on the ball, in turn increasing both control and the application of swerve. 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 Release
Craig 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. The rubber surface area featured hundreds of teeth-like dimples, increasing overall surface area and generating the desired grip and feel.
With the design complete, the next stage was finding a big-name manufacturer. After five years in development, Predator boots hit their next stumbling block. Adidas, Reebok and Nike all refused the design.
But Johnston was not to be beaten, and his football connections helped him find a backer. Johnston filmed German football legend Franz Beckenbauer using the boots in the snow in Germany, demonstrating the enhanced grip of the Predators. Adidas, a German company, liked what they saw, and Craig Johnston got his deal.
The First Predator Football Boot
The first Predator football boot was launched in 1994 for the USA World Cup. Soon, Adidas sponsored football stars were playing in the new Predator football boots. David Beckham wears Predators to this day, as do Michael Ballack, Steven Gerrard and Lionel Messi to name just a few.
Now arguably the most popular and innovative football boots on the market, Adidas Predator football boots have continued to lead the way in football boot technology. Craig Johnston’s innovation and determination paid off in spectacular fashion.
Craig Johnston and ‘The PIG’ Football Boot
Craig Johnston did not stop after revolutionizing the football boot just once. Johnston was nominated in the 2004 British Designer of the Year Award for a new football boot innovation. Despite not winning the award, Johnston’s new design, ‘The Pig’, was picked up by the media.
The Pig (Patented Interactive Grip) differed from the Predator football boot design in that it was a slip-on sleeve to be placed over any football boot. The Pig sleeve was covered in rubber spikes, again looking for maximum grip, control, swerve, and comfort, similar to Predator football boots but at a much lower price range.
However, the boot design has not yet made it into production, and the initial buzz surrounding it has gone quiet. New information regarding The Pig is hard to come by – feel free to comment below with any updates.
Adidas Predator History – Craig Johnston’s Quest
Adidas Predator football boots continue to push the boundaries of football boot design. 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.”
http://www.suite101.com/content/craig-johnstons-predator-football-boots-a144416
December 16, 2010
Ruud Hesp #13 FC Barcelona 1997/98 Super Cup/Supercopa Player Issue
I just bought this shirt this week from a german-based ebay seller. This is a player issue jersey from Kappa but I am not sure if this is a matchworn shirt since the seller told me his father was a die hard fan of Dortmund BvB and travelled around Europe to watch football and didn’t mention anything about ‘sources’ for getting this jersey. And again I am not sure if the jersey is available for fans back then.
My favourite reference is FCBarcelonaMemorabilia but the owner still does not have this Supercup/CL issue jersey. So I looked for other sources like elmundodeportivo to get more pictures.
ENJOY THE VIEW!
Ruud Hesp #13 FC Barcelona 1997/98 Supercup Player Issue
During 1st leg at Camp Nou
His name on the sleeves. The difference between La Liga and CL version is that the CL version doesn’t have the Kappa logo and dark blue underground between his name RUUD HESP on the sleeves. Refer to 3 pictures below.
Mine is Supercopa issue. If I put Starball, then it become CL issue.
Another difference is that under the Kappa logo, Supercup issue has no Kappa word under it but La Liga issue does.
the 
Supecup issue has no Kappa logo n word at the below part of the number.
Sorry, picture a bit blurry since i snapshot it from youtube.
The size.
This is the first time I saw a shirt with ‘YYL’ size. At the moment I received this shirt I thought that the seller try to cheat me. But after I put up the shirt, it is really big. It could be XXL. Then I refer to this picture where he stands beside Figo…look, how small Figo was.
Later I contacted FCBarcelonaMemorabilia and he said that Figo wore XL size (sometimes L) during this season. Emmm, another good reason this might be a real matchworn jersey.
Not much to say about the club emblem.
The inside surface of the shirt.
The padded elbows.
The celebration at Dortmund Stadion
Thats all for the review.
The history of how I got this shirt.
I went online shopping in ebay Germany and found a listing of this shirt in 2010. The seller didn’t write much in the description. After I won the shirt, I asked the seller and the response is: his father was a die-hard Borussia Dortmund fan and travelled around to watch the team play. He got the shirt in a stadium during a Barcelona game (which I assume Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund, first leg of 1997 UEFA Super Cup). The rest is unknown, therefore I tried to gather as much information to check its authenticity, uniqueness etc.
Enjoy.
What I want to know:
- Is the shirt even available in the store during that time?
I have searched on the internet, but I have not found anything similar to this shirt. If they are selling the shirt in the store, do they need to sell a very big size shirt (XXL is already big) to the fans?
- Is it a match prepared shirt?
It does look like a player issue shirt for the game vs Skonto Riga and Dortumund with the absent of the Starball patch, refer to below section “Comparison between this shirt vs shirt he wore”.
- What size did he wear during that time?
He is the biggest in the team, even bigger than Rivaldo. This shirt size is YYL. I have emailed FCBarcelonaMemorabilia asking for his size. Figo used M, L & XL while Ruud Hesp used a bigger size than XL, it could be XXL or YYL.
- Is the design unique to only him?
I have never seen Vitor Baia wear this design. Vitor Baia has his own design which Ruud Hesp didn’t wear.
- In which country is it made?
This shirt is Made in EEC, which is the abbreviation for European Economic Community. Below are the members.
(Source: britannica.com)
When did Ruud Hesp wore this shirt:
As far as I know according to videos/images in the internet,
– Champions League Preliminary Phase 1997/98
Barcelona (3) vs Skonto Riga (2), 13 Aug 1997 (First Leg)
(Youtube: 1997 August 13 Barcelona Spain 3 Skonto Riga latvia 2 Champions League)
Skonto Riga (0) vs Barcelona (1), 27 Aug 1997 (Second Leg)
(Youtube: Champions League 1997 98 2ª Rda Vta Skonto Riga FC Barcelona esp)
(Source: kitroomfootball)
– Champions League 1997/98 Group C
Barcelona (2) vs PSV (2), 1 Oct 1997
(Youtube: 1997 October 1 Barcelona Spain 2 PSV Eindhoven Holland 2)
PSV (2) vs Barcelona (2), 10 Dis 1997
(Source: genial.ly)
Dynamo Kyiv (3) vs Barcelona (0), 22 Oct 1997
(Dailymotion: Dynamo Kyiv v. FC Barcelona 22.10.1997 Champions League 1997/1998)
– 1997 UEFA Super Cup
Barcelona (2) vs BVB (0), 8 Jan 1998, (First Leg)
(Source: pinterest)
Comparison between this shirt vs shirt he wore:
1) Kappa logo and Barcelona emblem are stitched.
Both images here show that the logo and the emblem are stitched. The proof is that the logo and emblem do not bend easily, while the area around them bends during movement. Normally the player issue will have the rubber like type, instead of stitching type.
2) Sleeves design with no ‘Kappa’ logos.
In the Champions League, the shirt sponsor logos are limited to the chest. Therefore the sleeves will not have the logos. Both images show the same detail.
3) No ‘Kappa’ word under the sponsor logo.
Both images show no ‘Kappa’ wording under the logo.
4) No ‘Kappa’ logo inside the shirt number.
The logo is not present in his ‘13’ number, this I believe is Champions League ruling.
5) UCL Starball patch on the sleeve
My shirt does not have the star ball, I believe in this season they use the Lextra which can be applied if we wish too. I will leave it like this.
(Left: vs PSV; Right: vs Skonto Riga/Dortmund)
What I can confirm about this shirt authenticity:
1) The ‘Kappa’ tag at the neck has dots diagonally arranged.
- According to footballshirtcollective.com, the fake Kappa shirt will have the dots scattered inside the yellow triangle, but in the original one the dots are in two lines diagonally arranged. Mine has 6 dots.
2) The arm in the ‘Kappa’ logo doesn’t look like a stitching trail.
- According to footballshirtcollective.com, the size of the arms are bigger than a supposed stitching trail. It doesn’t look like lazy work.
December 9, 2010
Juventus European/South American Cup 1996
SOLD
Juventus European/South American Cup 1996.
Finally got the perfect condition.
COmplete with tagssssss so many tags.
Sleeves
it comes with cup celebration poster.
ANd it comes as BNIB with resealable plastic bag.
And I bought it 3 copies. Anyone interested just email me: zaimasyraf@gmail.com
Football Collection 
