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Predator No. 02 · 1995

Predator Rapier

The Tongue

adidas Predator Rapier from 1995 in black, white and red, the first Predator with a fold-over tongue
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The Rapier refined the original’s rubber technology — and introduced the feature that would define the Predator’s look for more than a decade: the fold-over tongue.

It is hard to overstate how iconic that tongue would become. For a generation of players, a folded-down tongue over the laces simply meant Predator. It started here.