Nike Cryoshot: soccer shoes become street sneakers
Nike Cryoshot was born from the meeting between the Nike Football historical archive and contemporary sneaker culture.
The project recovers some of the most recognizable soccer shoes of the past and transforms them into models designed to be worn off the pitch, keeping elements that belong directly to their sporting origin visible.
Within the Nike universe, Cryoshot therefore occupies a particular space: it does not start from existing lifestyle silhouettes, but from real soccer models reinterpreted through new soles, international collaborations, and references to the 2026 national teams.
Cryoshot and the Nike X2 2026 project
Nike Cryoshot is part of the X2 project developed by Nike in 2026.
Seven federations are paired with seven collaborators from fashion, music, art, and streetwear, creating capsules built around the cultural identity of each national team.
Canada collaborates with NOCTA, England with Palace, France with Jacquemus, the Netherlands with Patta, Nigeria with Slawn, South Korea with PEACEMINUSONE, and the United States with Virgil Abloh Archives.
The Cryoshots translate the same concept into footwear, recovering Nike soccer shoes from different eras and transforming them into street models.
From studs to transparent sole
The element that defines all Nike Cryoshots is the transformation of the sole.
The original silhouettes were born as soccer shoes equipped with studs, but in the Cryoshot versions, these elements are enclosed within a transparent sole designed for daily use.
The studs therefore remain visible as a direct reference to the original model, but the shoe changes function.
It is precisely this shift that defines the Cryoshot identity: instead of hiding the soccer origin of the silhouette, Nike places it at the center of the design and transforms it into an aesthetic element.
Nike Cryoshot Mercurial Vapor R9 Patta
The Nike Cryoshot Mercurial Vapor R9 Patta recovers one of the most recognizable silhouettes in the history of Nike Football.
The Mercurial is closely linked to the evolution of lightweight, fast soccer shoes and to the name of Ronaldo Nazário, one of the players who contributed most to making it iconic between the late nineties and the early 2000s.
For the Cryoshot project, Patta reinterprets that history in the context of the Dutch national team.
The collaboration thus links the Mercurial archive, the Oranje identity, and the streetwear language of the Amsterdam brand, transforming a shoe born for the pitch into a model designed for the street.
Nike Cryoshot Tiempo 94 NOCTA
The Cryoshot Tiempo 94 NOCTA represents the Canadian chapter of the project.
The silhouette starts from the Tiempo family and is reinterpreted through the language of Nike NOCTA, the project developed by Nike together with Drake.
The result connects soccer heritage and contemporary culture, keeping the origin of the shoe recognizable but placing it within the aesthetic built by NOCTA.
The Canada x NOCTA collaboration uses symbols, colors, and references linked to Canadian identity and the country's football culture.
Nike Cryoshot Air Speed M Palace
England is represented through Palace and the Nike Cryoshot Air Speed M.
The collaboration directly connects British football and skate culture, two worlds central to Palace's identity.
The Air Speed M is recovered from the Nike Football archive and transformed through the Cryoshot construction, keeping references to field shoes visible but adapting them to a lifestyle use.
The project thus reflects a particularly natural relationship between Nike, English soccer, and London streetwear.
Nike Cryoshot Tiempo R10 Jacquemus
For France, Nike entrusts Jacquemus with the reinterpretation of the Tiempo R10.
The name directly recalls Ronaldinho and a phase in the history of Nike Football in which the Tiempo line played a central role between technique, control, and creativity.
Jacquemus brings the silhouette into a language closer to fashion, creating a contrast between the memory of the soccer shoe and a construction designed to be worn daily.
The Tiempo R10 Cryoshot thus becomes the meeting point between the Nike Football archive, French identity, and contemporary fashion.
Nike Cryoshot Striker 1976 Slawn
The project dedicated to Nigeria instead uses the Nike Striker 1976.
It is one of the silhouettes furthest back in time within the Cryoshot collection and brings to the project an aesthetic deeply linked to the origins of Nike soccer footwear.
Slawn reinterprets the model within the identity of the Super Eagles, applying his own graphic and artistic language to a silhouette coming from a completely different period of the brand's history.
The Cryoshot Striker 1976 therefore shows how the project is not built around a single era: the archive is traversed freely, from the seventies to the technical models of subsequent generations.
Nike Cryoshot CTR360 Maestri II PEACEMINUSONE
South Korea is represented through PEACEMINUSONE, the creative project linked to G-Dragon.
The chosen silhouette is the CTR360 Maestri II, a Nike soccer shoe linked to the early 2010s and recognizable for a construction very different from the Mercurial or Tiempo lines.
PEACEMINUSONE reinterprets it through references to Korean culture and its own visual language, creating one of the most contemporary chapters of the collection.
The collaboration demonstrates how Cryoshot uses soccer as a starting point, but allows each partner to transform the silhouette through a different cultural identity.
Nike Cryoshot Zoom M9 Virgil Abloh Archives
The chapter dedicated to the United States recovers the Nike Zoom M9 and inserts it into the Virgil Abloh Archives project.
The collaboration works on the creative legacy of Virgil Abloh through an aesthetic linked to American culture and the football of the nineties.
The Zoom M9 is transformed according to the same principle as the other Cryoshots: the original field structure remains readable, while the sole allows the silhouette to move into the lifestyle context.
The project thus adds to the Cryoshot universe a connection with the work and creative legacy of one of the designers who most profoundly influenced the relationship between Nike, fashion, and sneaker culture.
Seven Cryoshots, seven ways to tell the story of soccer
The strength of the Cryoshot project lies in the diversity of the silhouettes.
Mercurial Vapor R9, Tiempo 94, Air Speed M, Tiempo R10, Striker 1976, CTR360 Maestri II, and Zoom M9 come from different moments in the history of Nike Football and tell different ideas of a soccer shoe.
Patta, NOCTA, Palace, Jacquemus, Slawn, PEACEMINUSONE, and Virgil Abloh Archives add as many creative languages to these bases, transforming the project into a journey through sport, fashion, music, art, and streetwear.
The transparent sole and visible studs become the common element that allows very different models to belong to the same family.
Original Nike Cryoshots and collectible sneakers
Nike Cryoshots were born as collaborative releases linked to the X2 2026 project, and their availability can change significantly depending on the model, size, and distribution.
Each version combines a silhouette from the Nike Football archive with a different collaborator and national team, creating seven models with autonomous identities but linked by the same concept.
In the secondary market, authenticity, condition, and the completeness of the pair take on particular importance.
Products sold by ResellZone as original are subjected to the checks provided for by the verification process, detailed in the page dedicated to product authenticity.