“They wanted to be able to focus on the game. “Players wanted no distractions,” says Denis Dekovic, Nike's Global Football Design Director. It’s about quick moves, quick decisions and strategy, and their hope was to create a new boot to reflect this. Over an extensive research period, Nike designers talked to players about what was important in a shoe, and they quickly realized the game was changing significantly. It’s a strange-looking piece of footwear, but this odd form has a purpose. Nike designers spent the last four years developing the shoe, which looks like half sock, half traditional soccer shoe.
Nike has gotten one step closer to an athlete’s natural state with the Magista, its newest soccer boot.ĭeveloped for the world cup, the Magista is a totally new form of boot.
As entertaining as it would be to watch professional soccer players run around on the field barefoot, that’s probably never going to happen. But more importantly, you get some incredible control over the ball. If you’ve ever kicked a soccer ball barefoot, you probably noticed a couple of things.
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