Euro 2008 Kits
Posted by John Devlin
I’ve just been looking through the kits for Euro 2008 and its amazing how the designs in international football are still completely dominated by the big three of adidas, Nike and Puma.
Nike are supplying kits for: Croatia, Holland, Russia, Turkey and Portugal
Puma are supplying kits for: Austria, Poland, Italy, Czech Republic and Switzerland
Adidas are supplying kits for: Germany, France, Romania, Spain and Greece
…with Umbro bringing up the rear for Sweden.An illustrated summary of all the Euro 2008 kits will feature on the True Colours site very soon!
14 Responses to “Euro 2008 Kits”
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March 29th, 2008 at 6:51 am
not to mention that nike own umbro now!
March 31st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
It’s a shame that the 5 Puma teams in the tournament are wearing kits that, apart from the obvious differences in colours and badges, are more or less the same designs.
Talk about drab uniformity. A far cry from two years ago where Puma’s v1.06 kits, despite having the same basic design, featured unique “watermarks” on the front of the shirt which added a bit of “uniqueness” to the shirt.
The new Dutch home shirt is a prime example of how not to match the socks to the rest of the kit. Yes the orange shirt and white shorts look fine, but the sky blue socks that Nike have decided upon make for a rather odd look.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I know what you mean about the Puma kits Jon - I was amazed at how similar they all are. Adidas are using only a few templates but each shirt has a little splash of individuality that makes it unique. I am a fan of Nike’s design philosophy I have to say…I quite like the socks!!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Jon - I think The Netherlands’ blue socks were made a part of the current kit because it’s a design that’s based on one of their kits from many decades ago. I don’t think we can pin the blame on Nike for that - they were purely going for authenticity in this case!
April 5th, 2008 at 6:02 am
It’s the first time they used this nassau blue colour.
“The Dutch FA have a very progressive attitude towards their away kits,” says Phil Dickinson, creative director football at Nike. “We worked closely with Marco van Basten on the new kit which uses a nassau blue colour linked closely with the Dutch royal family. We’ve never used this colour on a kit before but we know they’re really happy with the design.”
very interesting read here:
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/features/4350,just-design-it.aspx
Personally I’m quite disapointed in the new holland home kit, but maybe that because I like orange/black more..I mean, these colours just look “to sweet”. Same with the away kit…nice, but “to sweet”.
The 2006 away version was great in my opinion.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I already understand the significance of the blue socks on the previous home kit, the whole kit was based on the kit worn by the Dutch team in the 1950’s when they wore blue socks. This could be attributed to the old Dutch “prinzenflag” tricolour, as well as the distinct lack of wholly pale-coloured socks in those days.
However I think if Nike would have kept that same shade of blue for the socks for this year’s kit then to me it would have looked fine. Its just the sky blue socks look rather “mis-matched”, like one of those situations where a team has to put their away kit socks with the home kit in the event of a clash.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Thanks for that link Sven, its a very interesting read. Personally, I love the two Dutch kits. ‘Mismatched’ socks crop up quite a bit in some strips, take Scotland, Rangers and even Man Utd for example.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Good point.
Well my opinion might well change once the kit has been seen in use in televised games. I’ve said negative stuff about new kits whenever they’ve been first revealed, only for them to grow on me later. Making me look a bit of a fool in the process!
Come to think of Euro 2008’s new kits, I think the new Sweden away kit is the only kit we haven’t seen yet, whether it be leaked or officially presented, anyone heard or seen anything of it yet?
April 7th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I have almost all the kits available at a glance in the Euro 2008 section of my website. As Jon says just waiting for Sweden away.
http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/euro2008kits.html
April 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Looking on UEFA’s Euro 2008 site, Sweden’s away kit will be an all-navy strip with blue and yellow trim, in what looks like a typical new Umbro kit style for this year…
http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/imgml/kits/front/127.gif
It won’t be the first time the Swedes have worn navy either, back in 2002 when the SvFF signed a deal with Umbro, the away kit at the time was also navy, albeit a lighter shade than this new strip.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
In fact I can now follow up on that Swedish away shirt with an actual picture
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/123/fu1sn1001518c79op5.jpg
April 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Nice work Jon…is that strip black though, not navy? Thats the problem with this trend for ‘dark’ kits; you can never tell exactly what colour they are!
April 29th, 2008 at 4:16 am
I’ve got a number of different shots of this shirt but it is most certainly navy as this next pic shows.
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2451/fu1sn10021524c8dzb3.jpg
I still need to find some detailed real-life pictures of the shorts and socks though - the Swedish FA (SvFF) have yet to officially unveil the new kit in public.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Yep - its definitely navy - its a good looking outfit as well.