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Before the fall of Germany, tension was rife between the two brothers and after Rudi Dassler was captured, both brothers had split for good. Adi Dassler set up his company and named it Adidas, the second largest shoe manufacturing company in the world, and Rudi names his RuDa.Later that year Ruda nike shoes changed name to PUMA, and sponsored many footballers of Germany's national football team. So much so, that the scorer of Germany's first post war goal was wearing PUMA boots.

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In Oregon, Knight met his good teacher and helpful friend who was his coach Bill Bormann. Bormann constantly created the world record in long nike roshe distance running, and Oregon Eugene city got the reputation from then. The feet disease of sportsman was the most often made in the process of practicing and contest. Bormann wanted to design a shoe so that it could reduce the pain of athlete's foot and made a success.When he accomplished his high school study Knight went to Stanford university to study for an MBA degree, and Bormann kept on doing track and field instructor as well as devising active shoes in the university.

Knight finished his university study in1960. At that movement Knight made up his mind to go to Japan to look for an chance. During Japan's exhibition, he found Japanese Tiger brand sports shoes firm. He said he was the owner of "blue ribbon sports company" in America and Tiger brand also required an agent to break into the U.S. market. Hence the enterprise gave the chance to the inexperienced young man. Then Knight promptly found Bormann and they paid $500 respectively to build the real blue nike sb ribbon sports company.

The enterprise become the one and only agency of tiger trademark sports shoes in America and started the first venture from then.Phil Knight was Nike's legendary leader who was also one of the most eccentric leaders of Fortune 500 companies. He usually put on sunglasses, with super "cool" figure. He used to be a athlete in long-distance race and he started his cause with $1000 to create the physical Kingdom which was worth of tens of billions dollars. His company was a well-known pioneer in the advertising, but he bluntly said he did not believe advertising.