Shelbourne goalkeeper Lorcan Healy hopes to be a League of Ireland champion by the end of this season - but the 24-year-old is already a winner in the business world.
Nathan Collins wears the grip socks while playing for Brentford and Ireland, while Kilmacud Crokes and Dublin Gaelic footballer Paul Mannion and Ireland rugby star Jamison Gibson Park are also customers. “That was a massive part at the beginning of setting up the business, which is now a team of five people doing far more than six figures a year in sales and with more than 10,000 customers,” Healy told the Irish Daily Star.Healy revealed that he had long wanted to run a business alongside a career in professional football.
“I had a tiny budget, no investment, literally my savings, less than 10 grand, but I launched the business. “We made more sales, we were able to invest in new products, expand the product line and that’s where we are today.” “They hammered that home from a young age,” he said. “From as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional footballer. But by no means was I a shining star when I was younger.
“I told him I was doing this course until the end of February and that there were three or four dates where I would have to miss training, just to complete this course. “The socks have silicone grips on the sole and, here’s the science bit, the primary thing they do is double the static coefficient of friction, which is essentially stickiness.“This does multiple things. First of all, blisters; 95 percent of blisters are caused by friction and in-shoe movement. Your foot moving in the shoe causes friction, which causes the skin to tear.
“I want to be in London and look out the window of a car and see what I see in Dublin, which is our brand absolutely everywhere.”