Grime MC Stormzy has partnered with Adidas to launch the brand new Merky FC Predator boot. The restricted version shoe is constructed onto the brand new Adidas Predator 24, which options the basic foldover tongue in shiny yellow labeled with #MerkyFC — additionally featured on the outsole.
South Londoner and Arsenal midfielder Emile Smith-Rowe featured alongside fellow Girls’s Gunner Alessia Russo within the promotion. Each gamers will don the boots in a future match.
Stormzy additionally dropped a video on Instagram to rejoice the launch.
“From our glittering previous, we glance to the longer term,” the musician gleams with satisfaction earlier than he unveils the boot. “Vibrant, highly effective, scientific. Destined to change into an icon.”
Talking extra particularly in regards to the boot launch, he says, “As somebody who has at all times been an enormous soccer fan it is at all times been a dream to have my very own boot – particularly a Predator.
“That is about giving folks a technique to get entangled in #Merky FC – from representing what it stands for on the pitch, to immediately supporting future ambitions by way of the donation from the sale of every pair, and I wish to see folks sporting it with satisfaction.”
The shoe’s introduction coincides with Stormzy’s new multi-purpose complicated in Croydon, South London, known as Merky FC HQ. The middle provides London’s native youths entry to soccer pitches, music recording, and gaming.
The unique Predator boots can be out there in retail on Could 14. Proceeds will help Merky FC headquarters’ efforts to advertise various illustration in soccer.
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