New Nike Brazil Home Kit Features Totally Redundant Green Strip!
By Ollie Irish
Here’s a leaked pic of Brazil’s new Nike home shirt (Via Football Shirt Culture), which the South Americans will wear against France in a Nike-approved friendly on 9th February 2011 (as we told you a couple of weeks ago, that’s also when the French will debut their ridonkulously expensive new Nike uniform).
First impression? Well it’s lovely and yellow and ‘Brazily’, plus the crewneck collar is retro-smart, but the designers have fallen headfirst into the classic ‘this just needs one more flourish’ trap, by adding a gratuitous green strip on the chest, at nipple height (unless you’re Ronaldo, in which case the strip is way above nipple height). This shirt doesn’t need it, but then I guess these days when you bring out new kits all the time, you need to be able to distinguish the latest model from its predecessors. Shame, as there is a nice kit lurking beneath that green bar.
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I hate it when kits have those stripes that don’t go anywhere, just like those Adidas kits where the three stripes end halfway up the sleeve.
it’s like the player’s energy bar in pro evo or fifa………..
It looks like a minus sign. Why don’t they ever use that cool diamond from their flag?
If you’re gonna have horizontal strips on the kit, as least make it look nice like the France ’84 kit.
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Now that’s a kit!
I fucking hate Brazil, so no matter what they wear on the pitch, it’s shit!
That’s absolute shite, along with the France kit. Tragic.
nike makes shit kits, end of story.
Ugh… that’s abysmal. Brazil kits always have to have a splash of green, and if you remove the loading bar its just yellow. So, green is must but definitely not like this. The ones worn in South Africa were magnificent. http://tinyurl.com/4cvoqlq Retro (and green!) collar with a single classic thin green stripe going down the sleeves. Clean, simple, and nostalgic. I could see Garrincha, Zico, and Pele wearing a kit that beautiful. Luckily, they won’t be seen wearing this gaudy thing. Nike has been a bit hit or miss lately.
Lately? They have been mostly a miss (except for a few kits in the last few years) for at least the last decade. Their only upside is that since 2006 their material is superior to that of Adidas and until 2009 to Umbro.
the only way i see this kit working is to have the player numbers splashed atop the green bar. possibly outlined in the same colour.
yello yello dirty fello
yellow yellow dirty fello
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