That sneaker is also a good reference point to talk about the San Juan, because, like the name implies, it’s named after Athens, Greece. The Athens was first launched in 1968 to pay homage to the birthplace of the Olympics, although the games took place in Mexico City that year. To go even further back in Adidas’ history, there’s a white sneaker with blue stripes, the Rom, which came out in 1959 to celebrate the 1960s Olympics in Rome, Italy.
Since then there have been a whole host of City Series shoes, some more popular than others. There’s Dublin. The Amsterdam. Shoes for Manchester, England. Others for Milan, Blackburn, Stockholm, Malmo, London, Torino, Glasgow, Hamburg, Birmingham, Cardiff, Oslo, San Francisco. Koln, Berlin, Wien, Lyon, Paris, Bern, Boston, New York, Montreal. Some thought Adidas was going to close out the City Series shoes last year when they finally made a shoe for Herzogenaurach, the birthplace of the brand.
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