St. Pauli Shirts
June 3, 2009 by edd
Filed under European Club Retro
St. Pauli must be the coolest football club on the planet! The clubs Bohemian style and politics has made it famous with rock stars and true football fans the world over. Most of the team’s fans regard themselves as anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-sexist. FC St Pauli are certainly a unique club with a distinctive character and set of fans.
“How many clubs in the world have a transvestite President? Or a team photo with players in handcuffs? St Pauli are unique because they embrace all that is different. They celebrate freedom. And they welcome just about anybody who shares their ethos and who wants to have a good time. Their liberal, anti-establishment stance is appealing because it reflects all that has gone missing from English football.
As a football club St Pauli are legendry. They are run by anarchist punks, their logo is a skull and crossbones and they play in the red light area of Hamburg! So remember not all German football is about winning on penalties and ruthless efficiency ~ Never mind the bollocks, here’s St. Pauli!
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Just take a look at this St. Pauli fans video…
Juventus Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
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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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Ajax Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
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The first kit that Ajax wore was all black, this was later changed to red and white shirts and black shorts. The red, white and black represented the colours on the flag of the city of Amsterdam. On promotion to the dutch first division in 1911 Ajax were forced to change their kit again to avoid a colour clash with Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax changed their shorts to white and add one broad vertical stripe on the shirts.
The Ajax shirt is one of the most instantly recognizable in world football. Legendary player Johan Cruijff helped make the shirt an icon during the early 70s at a time when Ajax dominated European football. In 2008 Ajax paid tribute to Cruijff’s efforts by retiring the number 14 shirt he wore for them from 1964 to 1974.
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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. It’s also worth noting that FC Barcelona have resisted putting commercial sponsorship on the shirt, instead they display the logo of the charity UNICEF and donate time and money to support the organizations work around the world.
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AC Milan Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
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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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