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Celebrating her 100th career goal with the U.S. Women’s National Team (scored during her match against Australia), Nike is awarding striker Alex Morgan with a special-edition PhantomVNM boot. The color palette is a sophisticated floral take on her national team colors, enclosing a tonal American flag on a platinum Swoosh. …
Read More »Nike & Manchester City hit the archives to create celebratory Shirt!
During its six-year-long partnership with Nike, Manchester City has won six major trophies. This limited-edition Nike x Manchester City celebrates that streak by pulling from nine of the period’s iconic looks, including the 2017-18 centurion season home shirt in which the club broke the Premier League points tally record, and …
Read More »These Portland Thorns kits by Nike make history!
The Portland Thorns are two-time National Women’s Soccer League (NSWL) champions and own the league’s highest average attendance. When the team takes the pitch in 2019, it will do so with yet another distinction: Its kits will mark the first time that Nike has created a unique visual identity for …
Read More »Nike launches the new Victory Pack boots!
This summer, the iconic wings of Nike, the Goddess of victory, will appear on football pitches around the world on Nike’s Victory Pack. Each boot in the pack — the Mercurial, PhantomVSN, PhantomVNM and Tiempo — features a hand-sketched wing pattern of sharp geometric angles, metaphorically intended for multi-faceted players. …
Read More »Nike to kit 14 international Women National Teams!
When 14 Nike federations unveil their uniforms for the ultimate women’s football tournament this summer, millions of fans worldwide will focus on what the kits look like. Less obvious to the viewer, but hugely impactful to the players, is how they fit. For the past three years, Nike has focused …
Read More »Nike and UEFA Join Forces to Grow Women’s Football!
Nike has reinforced its commitment to the growth of women’s football by agreeing a landmark partnership with European body UEFA. The three-year deal sees Nike become an official partner of UEFA Women’s Football and the match ball supplier for UEFA Women’s competitions, including the Women’s Champions League and the Women’s …
Read More »Nike & FC Internazionale Milano raid the vault for 20th Anniversary Jersey!
The 2018/19 season marks the 20th year of partnership between FC Internazionale Milano and Nike. All of the season’s kits have paid respect to this anniversary. As a final ode, the 20th Anniversary Jersey combines 10 of the club’s most storied designs. “Some of these are synonymous with great victories, …
Read More »The Nike PhantomVNM football boot is fit for finishers!
The world’s best finishers — the likes of American Alex Morgan and Englishman Harry Kane — have something in common: Each knows that for every perfect, thrilling set ball goal, there are dozens of toe taps, heel flicks and hits off the outside of the foot. The value on the …
Read More »VIDEO – Nike: Phantoms of London X PhantomVNM X Tottenham Hotspur Stadium!
From the shadows to the floodlights. Phantoms from North London have owned every pitch apart from one. Watch 19 year old Ronnell Humes and her crew have an epic kickabout in their new Phantom Venoms inside the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Read More »Nike’s The NATIVE’s Football Shirt is Worthy of the Pitch & the Dance Hall!
Across Nigeria, street football has a common element: Tires used for goals. This reality plays in the abstract on The NATIVE’s collaborative Nike Football shirt. Against a black body, desert sand tire marks reference the streets of Lagos, grounding the design as 100-percent Naija both in place and in mindset. …
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