Gonzalo Higuain has promptly switched into the new Nike Hypervenom GX ahead of Juventus taking on Lazio this weekend. The throwback design was launched to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the '97 Air GX football boot and Higuian won't alone in wearing them in Serie A.
AC Milan's Andre Silva and Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi will also both lace up in the Hypervenom GX boots this weekend in the Milan derby. Icardi wearing the blue versions which have been released in limited numbers, and Silva wearing an AC styled red pair from NikeiD. For Higuian, he's followed the same route as Silva by creating a black and white pair to match up with the Juve home strip.
The significance of the Nike Hypervenom GX is that Nike are celebrating the opening of their Montebelluna facility, which was established in 1996. The first football boot to leave its doors? The Air GX in 1997. The original design was the final Nike boot before the introduction of the Mercurial series, and the upper of the Hypervenom GX is transformed to host the GX design on a K-leather blanket that replicates the blue, white and black colourway of the original aesthetic.
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