Adidas Handball Spezial Collegiate Navy Clear Sky

Released on 26 August 2020 and part of the Handball line. This release has a suede upper in Collegiate Navy/Clear Sky/Gum. The Handball Spezial landed in 1979 as a serious piece of indoor sports equipment, adidas answering the handball boom across Germany and Scandinavia ahead of West Germany hosting the 1982 World Handball Championships. Court players wanted grip, a low profile and a heel that could survive constant pivoting, and the Spezial delivered all three. Then British football fans travelling to European away matches carried it home, and through the 1980s it became terrace uniform, picked in colours that matched the club badge. This Collegiate Navy and Clear Sky pair, style code BD7633, sits right inside that tradition: deep navy body, pale blue stripes, gum sole. It reads like a kit colourway because that is exactly where the idea came from. Buy the adidas Handball Spezial in India and you are buying four decades of that story.