- Model: Nike Mercurial Vapor IV
- Player: Cristiano Ronaldo
- Condition: Match-Worn
- Tournament: UEFA Euro 2008
- Size: UK7.5/US8.5
- Soleplate: FG
- Made in: Montebelluna, Italy (Nike Athlete Services)
- Headline Features:
- Ultra-rare Nike Mercurial Vapor IV boots match-worn by one of the greatest footballers of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Worn during the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament whilst representing the Portugal national team, at one of the most historically significant points in Ronaldo’s illustrious career.
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The tournament fell directly within Ronaldo’s extraordinary 2007/08 Ballon d’Or-winning era, a campaign in which he scored 42 goals for Manchester United, won the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, and subsequently claimed the first of his five Ballon d’Or awards.
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This pair therefore originate from the precise period in which Ronaldo transitioned from one of world football’s brightest superstars into the officially recognised best player in the world for the first time.
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The iconic ‘Pine Green’ Nike Mercurial Vapor IV was exclusive to Ronaldo at UEFA Euro 2008, with the Portuguese superstar the only Nike athlete permitted to wear the colourway during the tournament.
- A truly exceptional match-worn artefact from the formative years of one of the most celebrated individual careers in the history of sport.
- Fully authenticated and accompanied by the BC Boots UK Certification Package, including entry into the online verification portal.
- Player Modifications & Personalisation:
- Each boot features embroidered personalisation of Ronaldo’s iconic ‘CR 7’ to the lateral side of the upper.
- Specially custom made-to-measure within Nike’s elite Montebelluna Athlete Services facility in Italy.
- Features exclusive Montebelluna-issue internal size labels displaying only the numerical sizing alongside “Made in Italy / Fabrique en Italie.”
- These custom labels are approximately half the size of those found within commercially available Vapor IV boots, omitting retail-specific information including product codes, line separators, style codes, and patent text irrelevant to Ronaldo’s bespoke athlete-issued footwear.
- Slight pulling and stretching of the upper material around the toe box areas further demonstrates the bespoke anatomical shape of Ronaldo’s personal boots – characteristics absent from standard retail examples.
- Fully tailored to the player’s individual foot shape and elite-level performance requirements.
- Condition & Match Use Evidence:
- This pair display signs of wear consistent with elite-level professional use.
- Visible wear throughout the boots provides authentic physical evidence of their use during one of the most important periods of Ronaldo’s career.
- Collector & Investment Significance:
- An exceptionally rare Cristiano Ronaldo match-worn artefact from the year of his first Ballon d’Or triumph – the beginning of a record-defining era of individual dominance.
- Directly associated with UEFA Euro 2008 and Ronaldo’s exclusive ‘Pine Green’ Mercurial Vapor IV, a colourway reserved solely for him during the tournament.
- Represents the exact period in which Ronaldo became the world’s number one player for the first time, following his historic 42-goal, Premier League and UEFA Champions League-winning campaign with Manchester United.
- The combination of confirmed match-worn status, major international tournament association, Ronaldo-exclusive colourway, Montebelluna construction, and first Ballon d’Or era provenance places this pair amongst the most historically significant categories of Cristiano Ronaldo memorabilia.
- As Ronaldo’s unprecedented playing career approaches its final chapters, genuine match-worn artefacts from the formative Ballon d’Or years of his career represent an increasingly finite and highly significant class of football memorabilia.
- Fully authenticated and accompanied by the BC Boots UK Certification Package, including entry into the online verification portal.
