Real Madrid Retro Shirts
September 15, 2011 by edd
Filed under European Club Retro
Real Madrid’s origins go back to when football was introduced to the city by academics from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Real Madrid’s traditional home kit colours are all white, although originally a blue stripe appeared on the shirt, but unlike today, dark blue socks were also worn. The striped shirt was replaced by an all-white version, modeled after the shirt worn by Corinthian F.C., in 1902 the blue socks were replaced with black ones.
Real Madrid achieved international recognition in the 1950s when they created an exhibition tournament of invited teams from various Europe clubs, this tournament would eventually morph into the European Cup and later into the UEFA Champions League.
It was during this time that Real Madrid’s most iconic shirts became world famous, players like Di Stefano and Héctor Rial dazzled the footballing world with there brand of football. Below you can view just some of these classic Real Madrid Retro football shirts.
Juventus Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
Filed under European Club Retro
Juventus The ‘Old lady’ of Italian football are nicknamed ‘i bianconeri’ which translates as the ‘Black and Whites’. The classic home shirt worn by Juventus today wasn’t so intimidating back in the 1900′s when the teams original home shirt was bright Pink. The result of a mix up with their shirt supplier!
The club found that the pink shirts faded badly after washing. By 1903 a replacement kit was needed, this time the club decided to let John Savage an English man playing with Juvuntus to place the order for the kit with a friend back in England. Savages friend lived in Nottingham and was keen fan of local team Notts County, the friend duly dispatched eleven black and white Notts County shirts!
Juventus also wear a blue second kit and occasionally they have played in yellow, famously winning the 1984 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup Final in the yellow shirt.
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Barcelona Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
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The list of legendry players who have worn the famous Barcelona shirt over the years seems endless: Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Stoichkov, Laudrup, Figo, Thuram, Overmars, Hagi, Koeman, Messi, Davids.
The famous scarlet and blue striped shirt worn by the above players has remained largely unchanged for the last 100 years. The club is widely known as the ‘Blaugrana’ in reference to the names of these colours in the Catalan language. The origins of the shirt design still remain some what of a mystery, it is possible that the colours for the shirt were taken from Crosby’s Merchant Taylor’s School in Merseyside. One of Barcelona’s first players was Englishman Arthur Witty who had been a pupil at the school which used the colours for it’s sports teams.
The Barça shirt has gone on to become one of the most recognisable football shirt designs of all time. With two more European Cup victories in recent years it seems Barcelona’s modern shirts will one day become classics too.
AC Milan Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
Filed under European Club Retro
In 1899 two English ex pats Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin from Nottingham formed AC Milan as a cricket club! In an tribute to it’s founders AC Milan have always used the anglasized version of it’s name and not the italian version AC Milano.
Throughout their history AC Milan have always worn the famous red and black stripes and this accounts for their nickname ‘Rossoneri which translates as ‘red-black’. The club is also responsible for the forming of bitter rivals Inter Milan, 1908 the club experienced a split caused by internal disagreements over the signing of foreign players! and Inter Milan was formed by a break away set of players and officials.
AC Milan remain one of the most successful football clubs in Italy, with 17 Italian titles and 7 European Cups victories. Milan’s away strip has always been completely white. Milan fans consider this there lucky kit as the club won six European Cup finals out of eight in an all white strip.
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