Today, kangaroo hides are important to the global soccer footwear industry, marketed as "k-leather" cleats. It's unclear what percentage of soccer cleats are made with kangaroo leather ...

ESPN reported that Nike’s Tiempo soccer cleats, which are typically made with kangaroo leather, will “debut with a new Nike-only, proprietary synthetic upper, [with] a new material that is a ...

As of mid-December, Soccer.com had sold more than 70 models of firm-ground cleats -- out of more than 600 total -- containing kangaroo leather made by Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Puma, Mizuno ...

In the past 20 years, 90 million kangaroos and wallabies in Australia have been killed for commercial purposes, according to ...

Yet that didn’t completely stop the sale of popular kangaroo leather soccer cleats in California, which is considered the largest market for soccer shoes in the world with Los Angeles one of the ...

That product is shoes. Namely, soccer cleats made from kangaroo leather, first popularized in the 1970′s by elite players and now sold by many athletic apparel companies, including Oregon-based ...