Puma Unveil Nine New African Nations 2012 Kits – Namibia’s Is Particularly Snazzy (Photos)
By Chris Wright
Puma held a bit of a bash at the Design Museum in London last night to formally unveil their latest nine creations for next January’s African Cup of Nations – there were originally supposed to be ten on display, though Algeria’s kit was omitted after they failed to qualify for the competition.
Anyway, the new strips have all been co-designed by artists from each respective country, presumably in a bid to offer Africa’s artistic talent a bit of a platform and to avoid the bland one-design-for-all dilemma that has been prevalent at the last few tournaments.
There’s a good old-fashioned dousing of your traditional African fare (lions/’ethnic’ motifs, etc) but done with a damn-sight more panache than the last few waves of African kits…
Some smashers in there, though we’ve got a hankering for Namibia’s. Any favourites Pies fans?
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togo’s new setup is pretty nice
Togo. Gotta love those handpainted stripes.
I like Ghanas not a fan of the numbering tho
Ghana looks awesome!
Like the shirts, hate the boots.
Cameroon all day, please!
Togo win.
All about Ivory Coast.
what’s the number on the Gabon shirt ? 1 ? 7 ?
I like them, especially Togo and Namibia (though the federation patch isn’t easily readable
Apart from the numbers they’re not bad, it’s like someone forgot to put the numbers on and then had to quickly improvise with some tape.
Burkina Faso is my favorite
cameroon with the lion looks class
Well, Namibia, Togo, South Africa and Cameroon haven’t qualified, so I guess Algeria isn’t there for a different reason… That aside, Namibia and Burkina are pretty cool, though the boots quite plainly suck…
puma makes bad bad bad kits!
Considering Togo’s was the only one that didn’t follow the exact same template, I’m going to have to go with them. I always applaud Puma’s attempts at making their African teams look different, but at the end of the day they’re still just rehashing the same template over and over again. Whatever happened to designing kits for each individual team…
Oh and I think we can all pretty much figure out what Algeria’s kit looks like anyway. Don’t really need to use much imagination.
These numbers look like they’re made of electrical tape
Sex God says…Cameroon and Togo do it for me while Ghana, much more should have been expected. And are all kits turning into underarmour?
I don’t think it’s new for the jersey’s in Africa to do this kind of thing. I remember for the 2010 world cup their jersey’s had different things such as stars and elephants in the top left corner of the jerseys that were worked into the stitching instead of printed on it.
e.g. http://images03.olx.com.my/ui/4/64/59/1266934061_70015559_1-Pictures-of-Ivory-Coast-Football-Jersey-World-Cup-2010.png
Still…really like that Ghana and Togo one
Also just thinking about it, I wish Puma used the Tottenham jersy template for some of the countries cause their jersey is nice but would lokk even nicer without that crappy sponsor!
All poor. Ivory Coast really shit as always.
@ Tom Jones, most of those kits are really nice, not certail why think they are shit as always.
Togo and Burkino Faso are awesome. Namibia is a bit busy for my linking but awesome none the less.
Togo one thrashes them all. but why is the puma running from the eagle, lol
Gabon for me, but why is South Africa’s kit there? They didn’t qualify!
These kits are not for those who are not less than svelte with six packs. Your average pie-eating-beer guzzling fan won’t be able to wear this without feeling self-concious.
On a sidenote, has anyone noticed the sweat in Yaya Toure’s armpits… It’s a photoshoot, for Christ’s sake…
im namibian and i only clicked on this koz i saw namibia’s. haha. ugly shorts though.
Who’s Stephen Pienaar?
Why are all these shirts SO TIGHT??!! O,O
Burkina Faso;s deffo. WANT all of them!