Tag: football kits

Spanish club unveils blueberry and strawberry themed kits

(CD Pinzon)
(CD Pinzon)

The trend of garish food themed kits in the Spanish lower division continues with CD Pinzon’s strawberry and blueberry shirts. Like other Spanish food kits we’ve seen, these represent the region’s agricultural output. Sadly, they do not seem to be scratch and sniff. I mean, you could scratch and sniff them, but they’ll just smell like body odor instead of fruit.

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U.S. club introduces abomination of fashion seersucker shirt

(@gorafters)
(@gorafters)

The bizarre kit arms race happening in lower divisions across the world continues with Shreveport, Louisiana NPSL (the U.S. fourth division) club Rafters FC. Perhaps inspired by Spanish side Cultural Leonesa’s tuxedo kit, Rafters have given the on-pitch formal wear idea a southern U.S. spin with the seersucker kit, complete with clownish bowtie graphic.

From the Wikipedia entry on seersucker:

The fabric was originally worn by the poor in the U.S. until preppy undergraduate students began wearing it in the 1920s in an air of reverse snobbery. Damon Runyon wrote that his new habit for wearing seersucker was “causing much confusion among my friends. They cannot decide whether I am broke or just setting a new vogue.”

I’m sure Rafters FC will cause similar confusion when they wear this thing.

Spanish fourth division club unveil unsettling muscle structure kit

CD Palencia, who play in the Spanish fourth division, are continuing the local tradition for bizarre kit designs with one that doubles as a human anatomy lesson. Both the shirt and shorts duplicate the muscle structure of the human body, making the wearer look like some kind of skinless freak — a disturbing sight that might intimidate opponents.

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Nike launches new home and away kits for U.S., England, France, Brazil, and more

(Top row: U.S. home and away, Portugal home; Bottom row: Portugal away, Chile home, Chile away)
(Top row: U.S. women’s home, U.S. men’s away, Portugal home; Bottom row: Portugal away, Chile home, Chile away)

Nike unveiled the new home and away kits for nine national teams at day two of their Innovation for Everybody event in New York City, including the first to carry the U.S.’s new crest.

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