Nike Football Boots

‘A different way of seeing the object itself. Not just as equipment. Not just as a tool for striking a ball. [Caleb Azumah Nelson] wants people to see boots as ‘a weird, living, breathing, cultural archive,’ holding the stories of the players who wore them and the fans who watched, copied, collected, and dreamed through them too.’ – Forty-One Magazine

‘Equal parts museum tour and moodboard … For boot tragics, design heads, or anyone who still remembers the first pair that made them feel unstoppable, this is the definitive Swoosh-on-grass chronicle.’ – Sneaker Freaker

‘A definitive 240-page hardcover archive … [with] illuminating essays on football culture.’ – Hypebeast

‘A really, really good-looking book, and a fascinating read as well.’ – Robert Elms, BBC Radio London

‘A pleasure for football fans, or anyone who is interested in classic design and fashion.’ – NUVO Magazine

‘From the Mercurial to Total 90, the Swoosh will forever be a household name in the boot game. Now, they’re diving into the vault, telling the stories behind some of the game’s most iconic on-pitch designs.’ – Versus

‘Nike Football Boots doesn’t just catalogue products — it celebrates the culture and players who shaped football history.’ – Verge

‘If you grew up deciding whether it would be a Total 90 or Mercurial Vapor year in the early noughties, this one is for you.’ – Sludge Magazine

Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British Ghanaian writer and photographer. His first novel, Open Water, won the Costa First Novel Award and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was a number one Times bestseller.

Thomas Turner is a historian, writing and working in London, UK. He is the author of The Sports Shoe: A History from Field to Fashion, and is Associate Lecturer, Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion.

Eleanor Watson is a curator and academic specializing in design and sustainable museology. She curated the Football: Designing the Beautiful Game exhibition at the Design Museum in London, which opened in 2022.

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