When your internal calendar is largely synced with the footballing one, it’s difficult to wrap your head around the fact that we’re now approaching mid-June. In the fantasy world before COVID-19, we’d see Euro 2020 begin on Friday; in the actual COVID-19 world, we’ll see the Premier League return Wednesday with a pair of fixtures that were originally scheduled for March 11.
Last year, Forward Madison FC burst onto the U.S. Soccer scene with some of the freshest kits we’d ever seen.
This year, they’ve done it again.
Forward Madison, which plays in the third-tier USL League One, dropped its alternate “Drip Kit” on Saturday. Once again the club went Full Mingo and we really don’t deserve a shirt this awesome.
In a country that claims to support women’s soccer but really only pays attention during the Women’s World Cup, the National Women’s Soccer League still has plenty of room to grow in the American sporting consciousness. But there’s one area in which the best women’s soccer league in the world is a recognized global leader — style.
Harry Kane has shown his true, brilliant colors with his latest act of charity. The Tottenham striker has taken over shirt sponsorship for League Two side Leyton Orient for the 2020-21 season, and the new jerseys will feature three different charities where sponsors usually go.
The club announced the deal on Thursday.
BREAKING: We’re delighted to say that former loanee @HKane has taken the club’s shirt sponsorship for the 2020/21 season.
WARNING: Classic Football Shirts is really fun to browse but you will go broke.
Before Puma decided that when it came to Per Mertesacker’s body, nothing should be left to the imagination, jerseys were essentially built for quarantine. Forsaking the modern urban fit for that of a parachute, these were shirts that you could grow into for years and years and years — perfect for the figure you’ve achieved over the last two months.
The football community continues to prove that I was utterly useless at a young age and that children are capable of amazing feats. First, young children were mailing letters to big clubs and getting responses.
The 2020 Chinese Super League season was supposed to begin on Feb. 22 but was indefinitely postponed back in January because of the coronavirus outbreak. More recently, there’d been speculation that the new season could start in the coming weeks after locally transmitted cases reached zero, but the country could now face a second wave of the pandemic from people entering China from abroad.
With the new Swedish Allsvenskan season usually kicking off at the end of March, it’s become an annual spring tradition for Stockholm-based club AIK to drop a special edition jersey that harkens back to its founding in 1891.
The last couple years have been blackout kits that’ve been celebrated around the globe, but this time around, AIK and Nike have elected for all white on the night.
When your team rolls up for its Sunday morning match, are you a ramshackle collection of ratty T-shirts, 2000s Premier League jerseys and some barbarian asking if anyone brought extra socks? Do you even warmup or did no one bother to bring a ball again?
What if you could solve all that by being outfitted with full team uniforms (jerseys, shorts, socks), training gear, footballs, a manager’s jacket and a carrier bag for it all? Well that’s exactly what Umbro wants to do for you.