Jack Butland’s incredible new Nike Vapor Touch gloves revealed with shock absorption, enhanced grip and NO strap
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JACK BUTLAND could save England’s blushes at the World Cup in Russia with a high-tech set of new gloves.
With Joe Hart axed from the Manchester City and West Ham sides ahead of the summer tournament, hopes are hanging on the Potters star.
And he has been boosted by getting his hands on the Nike Vapor Touch gloves that are not even available in shops yet.
The new kit boasts shock absorption, enhanced grip and NO strap and have revealed details about how Butland has got them ahead of his goalkeeping rivals.
They said: “We have received the first concrete information about Nike’s new 2018 goalkeeper gloves that were worn by England international Butland and Brazil goalkeeper Alisson Becker.
"Whereas traditional goalkeeper gloves have a big strap for lockdown, the all-new Nike Goalkeeper Vapor Touch gloves come without that traditional strap but with revolutionary reverse-stitched gusset wraps."
The Nike Goalkeeper Vapor Touch feature Nike ACC foam for shot absorption and enhanced grip.
When Butland was recently asked about the World Cup selection battle and Hart’s Hammers woes, he said: “‘No one likes getting dropped but Joe is a strong character and I’m sure he will be back in the team.
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“Whether he has been fit and available or not, it’s been my ambition to be England No 1, it changes nothing.
“Just because someone isn’t playing doesn’t mean I have a divine right to get the shirt. It doesn’t work like that.
“You still have to prove you deserve it, so Joe being dropped has not changed my outlook.
‘It also presents a massive chance to Jordan (Pickford), and to Nick Pope and Fraser Forster.
“It doesn’t make it mine to lose, it makes it mine and everyone else’s to win.”