Flashback

We came across some images of the very first Eurosport catalog we thought it would be fun to share. This 18-page catalog was printed way back in 1984 and featured three brands of soccer boots (adidas, PUMA and Patrick), eight ball choices, four goalkeeper gloves and one shinguard. The options for players were really limited back then but, my, how times have changed! Some of the big Eurosport catalogs now top 100 pages, have too many footwear options to count and pages of balls, gloves and shinguards. 

It's interesting that, despite all the high-tech advancements in soccer shoe technology, the venerable adidas World Cup is still a popular boot today.

Not even sure if they still make Patrick boots (maybe they're just not available in the US) but they were cool back in the day. Kevin Keegan and Michel Platini made them famous and trendy in the early 80s.

Named after legendary German player (and later coach) Rudi Voller, the PUMA Voller Volltreffer was one sweet kangaroo leather boot.

While looking at the old boot models is pretty cool, the apparel pages of this first Eurosport are, well, a bit embarrassing. No way these models were real soccer players; they were way too pretty. I bet these guys would have cried if taken down with a nice slide tackle. Yeah, they were probably just American football players....