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France’s international break was a little disappointing from a competitive standpoint. The World Cup champions lost to the Netherlands and missed out on a chance to be in the UEFA Nations league finals next summer.
But it wasn’t totally a lost cause because of these boots Antoine Griezmann laced up to play against Uruguay in a friendly on Tuesday.
We could make references to Samson and his hair or joke about awful World Cup hairdos of the past, but really, what’s even the point anymore. Almost a year to the day since Kyle Beckerman lost his dreads, the iconic Marouane Fellaini hair is no more.
Jamnaican reggae legend Bob Marley once sang about "Three Little Birds."
However, when Irish football club Bohemians FC, based in Dublin, decided to make its 2019 away jersey a tribute to the late, great singer, they apparently forgot "three little words:" You need permission.
By holding Iran’s Persepolis to a 0-0 draw in front of 100,000 at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Japan’s Kashima Antlers won the AFC Champions League final 2-0 on aggregate and booked a 2018 FIFA Club World Cup quarterfinal match against Mexico’s Guadalajara on Dec. 15 in the United Arab Emirates.
The stars for Kashima were 22-year-old Japanese international Yuma Suzuki and the Brazilian duo of Léo Silva and Serginho, who’ll give Chivas everything they can handle come December.
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While Real Madrid is in sporting CRISIS (the club’s top of its Champions League group, essentially through to the Copa del Rey Round of 16 and only three points behind second-place Sevilla in LaLiga, boohoo), the side from the Spanish capital can at least celebrate a financial achievement which comes close to matching the one Barcelona achieved in 2016: According to MARCA, Real and Adidas have reached a 10-year, $1.26 billion jersey sponsorship agreement, meaning the
With qualification secured and the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup a little over 200 days away, the USWNT countdown to France is well and truly on. The world’s No. 1 ranked side will again be sporting Nike threads at the event (the partnership between the sportswear giant and U.S. Soccer has been going strong since ’95 and has a current deal through 2022), and the team will receive women’s exclusive jerseys for the event.
Bob Marley has a special place in hearts of many soccer fans; the Jamaican icon has his songs sung across European stadiums. But Irish club Bohemian FC is taking it one step further with this Bob Marley jersey.
Bohemians is a Dublin-based Irish Premier League club, one of the oldest still in existence in Ireland. Their stadium, Dalymount Park, once hosted Bob Marley for a concert. So the next logical step was to create this unique Bob Marley jersey for the club’s 2019 away kit.
After setting the MLS attendance record in 2017 and putting five players in the list of top-selling jerseys throughout the year (including top-seller Miguel Almiron), Atlanta’s again set the attendance record in 2018 (including a single-season total record of 901,033 fans and a per-game average record of 53,002) while also putting a league-best five players in the top 25 jersey sales department.
Beginning with the 1998-99 season, FC Barcelona made the switch from Kappa to Nike, and the Swoosh has been adorning the Blaugrana shirts ever since. Accordingly, 2018 marks 20 years of partnership between the Catalan club and the American corporation, and to celebrate the occasion, Nike is releasing a shirt which incorporates design elements from every Nike Barca home jersey ever released.