The 2014 World Cup in Qatar has soccer fans rating the shirts and making purchasing decisions with millions on the line in retail sales. The Nigerian team’s brilliant green and chevron shirt from the 2018 World Cup, which sold out in minutes, is yet to emerge as a clear winner that may attain icon status.
World Cup shirts garner mixed reactions ahead of the tournament in Qatar
Which uniforms, in the perspective of some diehard supporters and a few outspoken players, don’t exactly dazzle? The United States team’s effort from Nike after their failure to qualify four years prior. White home shirts are seen as dull, not traditional, and have an expanded, basic country emblem in the middle. Both sleeves now bear the swoosh emblem that Nike repositioned.
The Stay Puft marshmallow guy from “Ghostbusters” has been made fun of due to a blue graphic at the neck. In addition, the American national team’s away uniform is royal blue with black Rorschach dots.
Fan Ryan Bender, 33, described the former as “awful.” “The away ones resemble practise jerseys.” Bender is a lifetime Los Angeles resident who plays soccer, coaches young players, and collects jerseys. He was generally unkind to many of the uniforms made by the top three manufacturers: Nike (13 nations), Adidas (7), and Puma (6). This is particularly true for the variety of front boxes, shields, and other containers where Puma-provided numbers will appear on away shirts for Senegal, Morocco, Uruguay, and other teams.
Puma has drawn special criticism for using Switzerland’s insignia, which resembles a QR code. Puma claimed that the ultimate goal was to emphasise player numbers. Grumpy people have also compared it to the iPhone calendar icon.
There is a severe lack of originality there. Bender stated of Puma’s uniforms, “And to be honest, a lot of them just seem like jerseys you might purchase in a roadside shop.
Even while Bender has a few favourites and isn’t the only one who mocks the U.S. team’s uniforms, not everyone is against uniforms in the every four years World Cup shirt debate. There are six other brands with one nation each, joining the top three businesses. Adidas, Nike, and Puma have prioritised using recycled materials.
When Denmark presented a black jersey to go with two other jerseys, it gave Qatar a run for its money. The black jerseys, which remember migrant labourers who passed away while helping to build the tournament, have the maker Hummel’s emblem fading out.
Solomon is unconcerned that Canada’s revitalised Les Rouges will play in their first World Cup in 36 years while sporting the same template-based uniforms they’ve had since June 2021. The jerseys sport the customary red and white colour scheme with a maple leaf emblem.