Confederations Cup: Russia’s New 2017 Shirt Is Soviet-Styled And Rather Lovely (Photos)

Chris Wright

16th, November 2016

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Photo: Adidas

Russia have just released their new kit for the 2017 Confederations Cup and it looks as though the hosts may just be the most smartly-turned out team at the ball.

Kit makers Adidas have taken style pointers from the Soviet kits of the 1980s and knocked out an absolute beauty (which, admittedly, doesn’t look unlike the little red number Wales wore at Euro 2016).

However, it’s the zig-zags – called ‘crankles’ in Russia, apparently – that clinch it…

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The away jersey ain’t bad neither…

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Very ‘Oleg Blokhin’ – which is to say we like, we like a lot.