Digitalizing Soccer Skills with Liverpool Legend Craig Johnston

Craig Johnston has consistently demonstrated versatility beyond his soccer career, notably by creating the Adidas Predator boot, blending innovative design with practical sports technology.

At the start of his career, upon moving to the UK, Craig received harsh feedback from the professional leagues. He transformed this criticism into motivation, dedicating himself to rigorous training to improve his physical abilities to become the football legend he is today.

After his retirement, he wanted to pursue a way to provide his training system to young players and also professionals wanting to take their skills to the next level. This endeavour was known as SUPAskills and aims to provide a standardized method to evaluate and enhance control, dribbling, passing, and shooting abilities. This aims to translate these skills into quantifiable scores and statistics, creating an engaging method for tracking and fostering player development over time.

As part of SUPAskill's evolution, Craig partnered with Impervium to digitise this system. This implemented a suite of digitised football games targeted for TV which was trialled by Newcastle Jets A-grade men’s team.