Youngsters compete to design new football boot

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to design your own football boot and get a professional footballer to wear it?

As part of the Premier League ‘Creating Chances’ community programme, North East school children have had the chance to develop and market a football boot for Middlesbrough midfielder George Boateng.

t90-laser-white1.jpgFormer Dutch international Boateng currently wears Nike Total 90 Laser’s, but was interested in finding out new and innovative ideas that could be brought to the world of football boot design.

The Riverside favourite was impressed with the finished products, saying “they came up with ideas that we adults wouldn’t even think of, and some ideas that I would really like to see like thermal heating and football boots in the colours of the home and away kit, so hopefully those things will be introduced in the future.”

Boateng hopes that the enterprising designs would “motivate and stimulate” the students to act on their ideas. The Ghanaian born player was particularly taken by a design for thermal football boots. “My feet start getting cold in October, so I would be the first to buy some!”

What creative ideas would you bring to the world of football boot design if you worked as a designer for one of the big football boot brands?

43 Comments

  1. andy
    September 28, 2007
    9:35 pm

    that would be a good idea for thermal boots, except its already been done adidas tunit clima warm boots

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  2. james
    October 6, 2007
    10:12 am

    that would be awsome nike mv nike lasers wow how cool

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  3. kaine
    October 22, 2007
    9:26 am

    I have designed my own football boot, but don’t know where to send it. Could you help?

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  4. dillon
    May 22, 2008
    3:38 pm

    where can i make footy boots?

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  5. dillon
    May 22, 2008
    3:38 pm

    where can i make my footy boots?

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  6. dylan
    June 2, 2008
    2:32 pm

    were do i make them

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  7. dom
    July 3, 2008
    5:51 pm

    where do i design my boots on this site?

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  8. kai willis
    August 30, 2008
    8:46 pm

    were can i design my boots

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  9. Bryan
    September 16, 2008
    12:56 pm

    In response to kaine's comment:

    If you want to send any ideas to sportstechreview@gmail.com I have links to a sports design company that may get back in touch if you don’t want to patent them. Or alternatively I could set up a page on www sportstechreview com with new football boot or soccer ideas?

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  10. rhys roberts
    September 30, 2008
    5:08 pm

    lush boots i want them

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  11. phil
    October 14, 2008
    7:45 pm

    In response to dillon's comment:

    from nikeid

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  12. lauren
    December 17, 2008
    6:34 pm

    were do you design your footy boots? and by the way i am a girl lol

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  13. jordan ross
    December 21, 2008
    8:39 am

    nikeid

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  14. karen
    February 5, 2009
    8:44 pm

    In response to lauren's comment:

    hi i love u from curtis

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  15. karen
    February 5, 2009
    8:45 pm

    In response to dylan's comment:

    nike id

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  16. zoe && megan
    March 8, 2009
    9:15 am

    we need to know were to desighn

    our boots on this site!!!!!!!!!

    :( :( :(

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  17. caolan
    April 9, 2009
    2:05 pm

    WHERE DO YOU DESIGN FOOTY BOOTS ON THIS WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  18. conor
    April 10, 2009
    2:52 pm

    were do u design your boots on this website?

    kinda stuck! lol

    :)

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  19. jamie
    April 19, 2009
    4:03 pm

    In response to Bryan's comment:

    i have over 250 designs of football boots, but have no idea where i can sell them or have them looked at, its a passion but i haven’t found any avenues to go down to make it a profitable…..
    cheers for ne responses..

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  20. faris
    May 31, 2009
    6:03 pm

    i love to design can you let me design a football boot

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  21. kelllie
    June 14, 2009
    11:49 am

    i would love to desing or make same thing my own one of a kind football boat prefudley addidas.

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  22. mershy
    August 11, 2009
    4:47 pm

    i would love to dising my own football boots mershy out

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  23. del
    August 18, 2009
    8:05 am

    In response to jamie's comment:

    hi jamie you will need a working prototype for people to take you serously,your designs will need to be different to anything thats already on the market,i have a few ideas of my own so maybe we could work together?

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  24. rouse07
    August 18, 2009
    8:19 am

    Ya can design your own boots at nikeid.com where they have recently put some new boots on the site 2.

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  25. james
    August 26, 2009
    3:37 pm

    In response to del's comment:

    i like designing my own football boots to maybe we should all work together

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  26. andrew
    October 28, 2009
    3:10 pm

    mabye you should try puting cheap boots on your website

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  27. zidane
    November 1, 2009
    2:39 pm

    where can we make our own nikeid on for £40 our cheaper

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  28. zidane
    November 1, 2009
    2:40 pm

    were can we design our own nikeeid shoes for $40 our cheaper

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  29. messi-boy
    March 25, 2010
    9:31 pm

    how do u design ur own boots man:@

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  30. cristiano ronaldo dos santos aviero
    March 30, 2010
    6:10 pm

    where do a make ma boots a got trainin way real soon

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  31. paddy o leary
    April 3, 2010
    9:32 pm

    were do you design your football boots

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  32. Amiin
    April 6, 2010
    3:43 pm

    what do ur shoes look like?

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  33. gops
    April 27, 2010
    7:29 pm

    i need help

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  34. nathief
    May 20, 2010
    11:16 am

    cool i want those

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  35. alyd
    June 4, 2010
    9:26 am

    they are ok

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  36. watida
    June 18, 2010
    7:50 pm

    please can i have a blank football boot for my homwoek

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  37. watida
    June 18, 2010
    7:51 pm

    please can i have a blank football boot for my homework

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  38. xX_SaL_Xx
    July 14, 2010
    7:29 pm

    i want it lmao ;)

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  39. misha
    August 24, 2010
    12:39 pm

    I like to design my boots

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  40. Alex jones
    September 3, 2010
    6:50 pm

    Just go to nike .com and search design your own boots

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  41. kai
    September 3, 2010
    7:50 pm

    where do i design my f*****n boots lol

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  42. kai
    September 3, 2010
    7:51 pm

    can some won f***** tellme

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  43. kyle
    September 4, 2010
    10:06 am

    Hey guys – this article is just about 3 years old!

    This competition is no longer running!

    If you fancy designing boots, hop on google and type in Miadidas or Nike iD and you’ll get adidas and Nike’s custom boot creators – hope that helps!

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