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  1. I keep going back and forth between this one and the 2020/21 version, but I think this might be the best US home kit since the Centennials. I’m actually glad the Nike logo and the names/numbers are navy to match the badge, although I think the kit would be even better if all the royal blue was navy instead. Overall, though, the stripes on the collar, cuffs, and shorts are so good that the kit as a whole has a classic, almost throwback feel to it. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, aawagner011 said:


    I saw that tweet and it made me wonder why the US crest application is different than the other Nike teams using the breathable material.

     

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    Huh, that is odd. When Nike used this badge technology in 2016/17, the red stripes on the US badge were the breathable mesh layer:

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    The federation must’ve opted against using it this time, which is a real shame IMO.

  3. 22 minutes ago, SCL said:

    Just terrible, the Gernman national team in something other than Adidas seems wrong. Puma I could get but Nike is sacrilegious.

    Considering the origins behind Adidas and Puma, one could argue it would be more sacrilegious for Puma to have gotten the contract. It’ll definitely be strange to see DFB without the three stripes, but I’m not as torn up about it as others. Adidas has still produced some classic efforts for the Germans of late, but I think they’ve maybe rested on their laurels a bit. If another brand was going to get the contract, I’m glad it’s Nike that’ll be taking the torch. France/Adidas were a pretty iconic partnership (not to the same degree as Germany/Adidas, of course), and I would argue Nike have done a better job for France on the whole since taking over.

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  4. The US U-23’s are wearing the new away kit with blue shorts and socks right now:

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    I’m almost liking this more than the red shorts and socks. The blue shorts disrupt the bomb pop effect, but I think the shirt is too blue-heavy to work with both red shorts AND socks. I’d love to see this kit with the standard red shorts, but swap in these blue socks for the red ones. Blue/red/blue could be the best and most balanced combo.

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  5. Some better looks at the new Canada kits on actual players here:

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    I’m a big fan of the white kit, and the red kit is growing on me the more I see it. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I LOVE the oval swoosh. Gives a 90’s feel to these kits, and I like that it’s an exclusive detail for Canada. I actually think both kits look better with the red shorts. 

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  6. I’m weirdly loving those France shorts, more so than the shirt actually. Very quirky, but something the French can pull off IMO. Their home kit is fantastic, too. Loving the enlarged, colorful badge on both kits. I’m a big fan of both England kits as well, though from what I’ve seen it doesn’t seem like England fans are all that fond of the away kit (not necessarily surprised about that). 
     

    As for the US kits, I think the home is pretty close to ideal. I’m fully expecting the WC26 home kit to be Waldos or something more adventurous, so I’m happy to see a relatively plain design once again for this kit cycle. The cuffs are great, and the collar is a little odd but still nice. I don’t like the away kit at all, but that’s been a common theme for a number of years now.

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  7. Seems like quite a few teams will be wearing their secondary kits at home today. We already know about Atlanta and Columbus, but NYCFC, Dallas, and Houston are all doing so as well. It won’t surprise me if SKC follows suit.

  8. I really hate the monochrome crest on the Argentina home shirt. Completely unnecessary when the full-color version is already primarily gold and would’ve worked just as well with the gold adidas logo. Since it’s a home shirt, the flag stripes in the badge should be rendered correctly IMO. Plus, the black AFA logo would’ve helped to tie in the black numbers at least a little bit. I do quite like their new away kit, although I’d love to see it with white shorts. Also hard not to feel like the gold numbers do seem out of place. 

     

    I don’t like that Mexico home kit at all. I like the pattern on their away shirt a lot, but don’t love the gray/bright green color scheme. 
     

    Belgium are my clear winners of Adidas’ European range (really their entire 2024 crop). The TinTin kit is fantastic, and their home kit deserves praise too. Germany’s home kit is nice, but I don’t like it nearly as much as some other people seem to (especially paired with the white shorts). Spain’s home kit is perfectly fine, which is a lot better than I can say for some of the other efforts. Wales away kit would be my sleeper pick of the bunch. For me, I think that’s one that maybe won’t get a ton of recognition but should.

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  9. Through looking at teams’ game notes, I’ve been able to find a few of this week’s kit  matchups:

     

    NYCFC (all-light blue) vs. Portland (all-green)

     

    Toronto (gray/red/gray) vs. Charlotte (blue/white/white)

     

    Atlanta (red/black/red) vs. New England (all-white)

     

    Columbus (all-black) vs. Chicago (white/light blue/white)

     

    RSL (red/blue/red) vs. Colorado (all-light blue)

     


    Here’s my guess at the rest of them:

     

    NYRB (red/black/red) vs. Dallas (all-white)

     

    Orlando (all-lavender) vs. Minnesota (all-black)

     

    Philadelphia (all-navy) vs. Seattle (green/light blue/white)

     

    Austin (green/black/black) vs. St. Louis (all-white)

     

    LAFC (all-black) vs. SKC (all-light blue)

     

    San Jose (all-black) vs. Vancouver (all-white)

     

    Cincy (royal/navy/navy) vs. DC (all-white)


    Nashville (yellow/navy/yellow) vs. LAG (all-teal)

     

    Miami (all-pink) vs. Montreal (blue/black/blue)

  10. I’ve got notes for all three Cascadia teams last night.
     

    The Timbers debuted their new secondary kits and the shirts were indeed blank. I think the sponsorless look elevates the shirt substantially and also helps the centered crest be the focal point as intended. I still won’t be surprised if they end up adding their “Stand Together” community platform logo to the shirts at some point in the near future, but I’m kind of hoping they just leave them blank. 
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    As @Digby mentioned, the Sounders ended up breaking out light blue alternate socks last night to avoid a sock clash with Austin. Just from watching highlights this morning, the contrast between the teams was… not ideal. For the Sounders, it seems like they’re going without a green sock option this year. I find that really strange since green/blue/green has been their traditional kit combo their whole time in MLS (not to mention it’s what the original NASL Sounders wore in 1974). I really think this kit desperately needs some green below the waist.

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    The Whitecaps debuted their new secondary kits at home and wore navy alternate socks to avoid a sock clash with Charlotte. It was a good look, although I think I prefer the white socks that were shown in the kit unveiling. Side note: I still think this Charlotte kit would look way better with blue socks. Ironically, they conceivably could’ve used the blue socks from their old home kits yesterday, which would’ve allowed Vancouver to wear the navy/navy/white combo. 
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  11. Columbus and RSL both publish the kit matchups, so we know what their two games will look like today:

     

    Columbus will be in all-yellow at Minnesota, who will be in all-black.

     

    RSL will be debuting their new red/blue/red primaries against LAFC, who will be in their smog green kits.


    From scouring teams’ social media, it seems like Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Portland, and Vancouver will all be wearing their secondary kits at home. The latter three will all be debuting theirs, while Houston has already worn theirs in the CCC and Dallas’ is obviously carried over from last year. The other new kits getting debuted today should be Colorado’s primaries (at home vs. Nashville), Chicago’s primaries (at home vs. Cincinnati), and Toronto’s secondaries (at New England).

     

  12. I will be very curious to see the contrast between Seattle and Austin tomorrow night. It’ll very likely be green/blue/white vs. all-cream, but the green sleeves on Austin’s shirt aren’t that far off from the color of Seattle’s shirt. There will also be a sock clash unless either side has alternate socks for their respective kits. 

  13. 41 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

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    I wonder if we'd possibly see something like this on the weekend for Portland? As was pointed out by the mothership, Chelsea simply kept wearing what they had last year when Three cancelled their partnership, but mainly because they couldn't print new shirts per UK rules concerning the club.

     

    It’s possible, but I would be pretty surprised. Due to the deal with DaBella being signed late last year, I believe the club received blank shirts before the season and were applying the DaBella logo in house. If that is indeed the case, I would assume the EQ staff still has enough blank shirts to use going forward instead of having to apply a box like that over the top^. The Timbers’ CEO has already confirmed that the shirts will be blank tomorrow, so at the very least they won’t have to take the Chelsea route. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, Digby said:

    I dig that one but I think their away is my favorite color application of this gradient teamwear thing. Greenish-dark grey is an interesting color and plays nicely with the red and neon yellow combination.

     

    I would agree with you there. I also like how the red badge pops off of the darker base color. 
     

    54 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

    Looking at the NWSL and Red Stars site, and it seems like the badge on this year's kit is not the primary badge? I figured it was a team rebrand, but it doesn't appear that way looking at the team's and league's web site.

    That’s a secondary logo for them, they’ve worn it on their shorts for a few years but not on the shirts (as far as I remember, at least). 

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  15. Luckily for the Timbers, the new jerseys were initially manufactured without the sponsor logo so there should be some stock laying around. It’ll take a while for new runs of the jerseys to get produced, though. The most pressing thing is for the EQ staff to get jerseys ready for matches, but I believe they received blank shirts (both the primary and new secondary) before the season and were applying the DaBella logo in house anyways. Here’s my thought on what they’ll do for the rest of the season:

     

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  16. On 2/27/2024 at 10:48 AM, MJWalker45 said:

    I'm guessing they want to stand out and go home vs home kits when playing Seattle. 

    I was referring solely to the yellow color, not the red. I’m thrilled that they’ve gone back to red primaries, they never should’ve gone away from them. I’m still very lukewarm on the yellow accents, though.

     

    In any case, my favorite part of the new red kit is easily the socks:

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  17. 37 minutes ago, Digby said:

    They've all dropped today. Everyone gets a bespoke primary and a secondary in this diagonal-gradient aesthetic. Too lazy to paste all the links so here ya go: https://nwslshop.com/collections/2024-unisex-jerseys

     

    Lots of bold choices, some good and some bad. That San Diego sunset pattern jersey is the obvious banger of the year.

     

    Of particular note: Portland is back to red at home and seems to have changed its color scheme to red with lime yellowish-green. Bay FC has that navy logo but their shirts are all varying shades of grey? Seattle Reign has the classic logo back but is using a navy base with metallic gold trim, none of the dark teal or silver they had like the old days. Washington seems stuck in year two of this weird black/yellow temp scheme.

    The lime yellowish-green is just for these kits, not indicative of a brand change. There isn’t really reasoning given for the color, other than the usual marketing speak about joy, passion, energy, etc.

  18. The league doesn’t appear to be posting the kit assignment graphics again this year (sigh), but here’s my guess at the rest of this week’s matchups. An * indicates a confirmed choice.


    Columbus (new yellow/black/yellow) vs. Atlanta (red/black/red)

     

    *LAFC (new all-black) vs. *Seattle (new green/blue/white)

     

    Charlotte (new blue-ish/white/white) vs. NYCFC (new all-black)

     

    *DCU (new all-black) vs. *New England (white/red/red)

     

    Orlando (all-purple) vs. Montreal (new all-light blue)

     

    Philadelphia (new all-navy) vs. Chicago (white/light blue/white)

     

    Austin (green/black/black) vs. Minnesota (all-white)

     

    Dallas (new navy-red/navy/navy) vs. San Jose (new all-white)

     

    Houston (all-orange) vs. SKC (new all-navy)

     

    St. Louis (all-red) vs. RSL (gold/blue/gold)

     

    Portland (all-green) vs. Colorado (all-light blue)

     

    *Cincinnati (new all-cream) vs. *Toronto (gray/red/gray)

     

    Nashville (new yellow/blue/yellow) vs. *NYRB (new red/black/red)


    LAG (new all-white) vs. Miami (all-black)

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  19. I said this when it was first “unveiled” by the Hawks, for my money it’s the best away kit ATL has had. That said, the more I look at it the more I think they should’ve swapped the yellow and light blue or forgotten the light blue altogether.

  20. I didn’t see anyone post a picture of the full Whitecaps kit yesterday, but it’s too good not to share:

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    White shorts/navy socks would be a more fitting combo for the Caps’ kit history, but I love the Chelsea-esque combination. I can’t remember another MLS team wearing a kit combo like this, at least not as a first choice combo. I’ve long thought Orlando would be a natural candidate to wear a Chelsea-esque kit combo for their primary kit.

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  21. 2 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

     

    They wish. The standard Sounders fan is a combination of bearded or balding, is either incredibly skinny or incredibly not, and has never looked cool in their lives.

     

    If you don't believe me, do a scan of the ECS. Their hearts are in the right place but fashion sense definitely not.

     

    Seattle wishes that was their typical fan. The hipster shoot looks ridiculous.

    They made no mention of it in the kit unveiling, but within Adidas Seattle’s new kit is apparently dubbed “The Macklemore Kit”. It helps to explain the nauseating stripes and the ridiculous hipster shoot. This is straight from the head of club football apparel at Adidas:

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    Now why didn’t the club make mention of it during the unveiling? Probably because they’re saving it for a future tie-in or someone within the club realized how embarrassing it was.

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  22. 6 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

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    Are the shorts green, or white? Because I haven't seen them yet. I'd expect them to be green, but seeing what happened with New England who's wearing the same template, who knows?

    They will have cream and green shorts options. I suspect cream will be used more.

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  23. 24 minutes ago, VampyrRabbit said:


    The colors on the crest not matching those on the kit and the solid green back of the jersey still drag the kit down IMO.

    Not only that, but the “Heritage Aqua” is really just a Carolina blue and doesn’t match the aqua in the crest at all. There’s a massive disconnect between the kit and the badge, both stylistically and in terms of the color palette. The badge is very vibrant and modern, yet it’s slapped on a kit that attempts to be overly retro-for-retro’s sake. It seems like a classic case where the kit design was done without consideration being given to the new crest and brand colors. On their own, I really like the shorts and socks. But they look like they’re screaming out for a white shirt similar to their Heritage white kits from 2017/18. And then the stripes? I just don’t get those at all, and I don’t think the two shades of green PLUS light blue PLUS white makes for an appealing shirt at all.
     

    As always, I’m a Timbers fan so my viewpoint on anything Sounders-related is clouded by a puff of fish-scented air. 

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