Friday, November 7, 2008

kits of the future

Good day folks,


Today I want to take your time and pry you away from this weeks Champions league excitement to take a look at this years best kits. Thats right, I will be running through some of the most stylish, eye-catching or just plain weird kits this year.

A jersey showcases a teams reputation, history and style. They come in all different fits and forms. Some with collars, some without. Some have vibrant eye-catching colours and others revel in the feeling of a bland but old-school colour. What is really amazing is how much these kits represent their teams in such conscious and unconscious ways.

So without further adue, please let me show you some of my favorite kits for the 08/09 season:


Manchester City: Away 08/09, Premier League
One of the few teams to have Le Coq Sportif sponsor their equip. I dont know what I like more about this, the retro-90's goalkeeper "acid wash" in the red stripes or the neon yellow bird. It looks like something out of Nintendo's Virtual Boy.
Get this kit while it lasts though, Man City will be switching to Puma shortly.

Olympique Lyonnais 3rd Shirt, Ligue 1

Call me a sucker for the dark shirts, but the Lyon 3rd shirt just looks so damn menacing. If batman played football, he would most likely have a kit like this. The stripe on the side is classy and there isn't too much going on to get you distracted.


Werder Bremen: 3rd, Bundisliga
This looks more like a blog template than a football jersey. Leave it to Kappa though to make a brown/lime green shirt that fits like a glove. It takes real balls to throw on a brown jersey and look intimidating, but I think this shirt pulls it off nicely. Its got a really interesting collar too...
Chievo Verona, Serie A
It has a knight with a jousting pole on a horse AND its yellow. Deal with it.
Barcelona 3rd, La Liga
One of the better attempts at a high-contrast neon shirt. Its really pleasing on the eye, high visibility and has a NGO as the sponsor. If there was ever a kit to make you feel good about the world, it would be the fan-owned, unicef sponsored Barca shirt.

Sheffield Wednesday, Coca Cola Championship
Its simple, and I really like how the black-and-white owl sketch sits on the orange and blue. Its loud with the color scheme but really simple and classic.




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