Real Madrid FC new promotional video presents its new soccer jersey for the season 2010 -- 2011. Designed by Adidas, the video shows the most famous stars of Real Madrid of all time playing with the new uniform.
The club also will emphasize their new slogan for the 2010 -- 2011: “Juntos Mas Grandes ” (Together Even Bigger.)
Last Thursday Nike revealed the USA National World Cup soccer jersey. The presentation was in Niketown of in New York City On Thursday I went to Niketown in New York City. The jersey is inspired on the home kit of USA National team wore in 1950, where the team beat England in one of the most memorable matches of the World Cups.
USA World Cup Kit
At the presentation notable players and coaches of all time were present. From Bob Bradly, current coach, to Eric Winalda and Walter Bahr (who was part of the team that played that 1950’s match), they all welcomed in good spirits the vintage design of the shirt. Winalda even joked that the kit used in ‘94 should be erased from all historical records (he was one of starts of that world cup and the design was made by Adidas)
DTMO Emblem
As mentioned previously in our site, all Nike Jerseys for the South Africa 2010 are made of recycled plastic from plastic bottles. The kits are also 13% lighter than before. An emblem with the letters DTOM (which stands for “Don’t Tread On Me”) together with a snake where added to the shirt below the USA crest. That slogan was used in 2006 World Cup’s advertising campaigns.
The new shirt also has a diagonal grey stripe, described by Bahr as a “shadow”. Nike designers might use this kind of stripe for future USA Nike Jerseys.
The Asociacion Paraguaya de Futbol presented the new soccer jersey of their national team, that is going to be wore in South Africa 2010. The traditional colors – blue and red – and the insignia, which has a lion inspired in the Paraguayan flag and which represents the “garra”, are still there.
They have changed provider, from Puma to Adidas. They have included the legend: “ñameê koraso mbarete”, which means Strength, Hearth and Garra in guarani. For the presentation of their new uniform, they recreated a soccer stadium with all its glory and typical soccer fans. Different traditional dances and choreographies under the official theme of the world cup completed the show. Continued…
Argentina and Spain will present their new uniforms this Saturday in Vicente Calderon their respective soccer uniforms that they will use during next year’s world cup in South Africa. The new soccer jersey of Spain will have references to the Eurocups won in 1964 and 2008, and the phrase “La Furia Roja” will be eliminated. The soccer jersey of Argentina will be based on the one they used in Mexico 86, which the “albiceleste” won, and where Diego Armando Maradona became a soccer legend.
The new world cup soccer jersey of Spain will be presented in Kineopolis center. The players of the national team will be present.
The first Real Madrid soccer jersey completely white, very straight forward design, with just the initials of the club “MCF” stamped on it, standing for the original name of the institution: Madrid Club de Futbol. The first changes made were in 1908, when the Club changed the font used in the logo where changed. Also, the distinctive circle around the initials was introduced. Not until Pedro Parages, in 1920, changes where introduced to the uniform. During that time, the current king of Spain, Alfonso XIII conceded the club his patronage, which resulted in the addition of the popular word among La Liga teams: “Real” (which in English means Royal.) Because of this, King Alfonso’s crown was added to the insignia of the institution and the club was renamed to Real Madrid Club de Futbol. Continued…
At the begining of the twentieth century, the teams of Argentina and Uruguay played continuously between them. The Uruguayan teams dreamed of beating the powerful Alumni team from Argentina, which only lost 2 tournaments between 1900 and 1911 (this is the year they disappeared). The 10th of April of 1910, in Parque Central, River Plate of Montevideo beat a Alumni 2 to 1, using a sky blue jersey because their regular jersey was similar to the one of Alumni. At the sixth edition of Limpton Cup, the argentinians proposed that Uruguay changed its striped jersey, which was similar to the one of Argentina, because that uniform was officially adopted by “Argentine Association Football League”. Continued…
Marshalls and Tjmaxx have a sale on many Puma Soccer Jersey Replicas (they have some Adiddas’ too.) They are selling the 2009 shirts of Uruguay, Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia and Olympiacos, among others, at USD 29.99. They have a really good selection. This promo is only for USA and can only be bought in store.
Tallahassee, FL – For the second straight year, the Florida State soccer team is ‘Painting the Plex Pink’ for Breast Cancer Awareness when the Seminoles take on the Miami Hurricanes, Sunday, October 4 at 1:00 p.m.
Fans are encouraged to come out and support the Seminoles as they take on their intra-state rival while helping raise funds to support a great cause. Seventy-five percent of the proceeds will stay right in Tallahassee to benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Cancer Health Center, while 25 percent of the funds will go the Kay Yow Foundation. Continued…
The first soccer jersey of Boca Juniors was pink, which was changed shortly for a black and white vertical stripped one. There are two versions why the decided to change their original jersey: 1) there are those who said that in 1906 Boca lost a soccer match where the colors of the jersey were at play, 2) others claim that the reason for the change was that its players and fans were constantly mocked by others because the colors were too “feminine”. Anyway, after the loss, decided to look for new official colors. Continued…
In a well attended press conference Barcelona FC presents its newest star: Zlatan Ibrahimovic. In the same conference, they revealed that he is going to use the soccer jersey with the number 9 in its back, previously used by Eto’o (now in Inter Milan.) In an emotive moment for fans, he kisses the shirt’s emblem. Continued…
Cristiano Ronaldo starts to generate a lot of money for Real Madrid.
After the spectacular presentation in the Bernabeu Stadium, the soccer jersey of Real Madrid with the number 9 in the back and the name of Cristiano Ronaldo sold out in a matter of hours. Kaka’s shirt sold out as well.
The big difference between both stars is that Cristiano Ronaldo’s jersey sold out in only 2 hours (around 2000 shirts) while the one of Kaka sold 600 units in amount of time (consider that each jersey costs around 85 euros). Continued…
Collected by the most devoted fans and also known as retro soccer jerseys or classic soccer jerseys, this type of shirts normally sell in auctions at very high prices. Continued…
Even though the first soccer match was played in 1860, at that time there was not yet still the concept of standard team colors.During that period, players would normally play with any clothing they had available. To distinguish themselves, soccer players of the same team would use colored caps or sashes.
Since it was a little confusing, the 1867 rules book of the game recommended players to wear jerseys with colors similar to those of other players in their same team. Continued…
John Vargas embarked on a quest to illuminate the profound beauty and grace within body painting. Inspired by football—and boobs—Vargas compiled a variety of beautiful women from around the world and plastered them with a ton of paint, achieving innovation and simultaneously turning haters of soccer into shirt toting fans. Continued…
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