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.
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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Liverpool Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
Filed under English Club Retro
Liverpools now famous all red kit wasn’t adopted by the reds until the mid 60′s, before that Liverpools traditional colours had been red & white. Believe it or not, the Liverpool team of the early 1900′s ran out in a blue and white kit similar to Evertons!
The team that made Liverpool’s worldwide reputation was undoubtedly the side managed by the great Bill Shankly, and it was Skankly who first had the idea of the all red kit. As Ian St. John later recalled in his book: He (Shankly) thought the colour scheme would carry psychological impact—red for danger, red for power. He came into the dressing room one day and threw a pair of red shorts to Ronnie Yeats. “Get into those shorts and let’s see how you look,” he said. “Christ, Ronnie, you look awesome, terrifying. You look 7ft tall.” “Why not go the whole hog, boss?” I suggested. “Why not wear red socks? Let’s go out all in red.” Shankly approved and an iconic kit was born.
Above is a selection of the iconic shirts that helped Liverpool dominated English and European football for the last 40 years.
Manchester United Retro Shirts
December 14, 2008 by edd
Filed under English Club Retro
From Manchester to Moscow, United’s famous red shirt is known the world over. United’s classic red shirt has seen it’s fair share of glory over the last 50 years. From last minute winners in the European Cup final to famous victories over Liverpool in the FA Cup and Titanic struggles with Arsenal and Chelsea in the league. United can never be accused of be boring!
Many of United’s most memorable victories have been won wearing there 2nd and 3rd choice shirts. United were the first English team to win the European Cup and wore an all blue kit in the 1968 final at Wembley. Mark Hughes scored twice in the 1991 European Cup Winners Cup final against Barcelona wearing United’s white away shirt.
United can boost the best club record in the FA Cup winning the trophy eleven times; Famous victories against Liverpool in ’77 (denying Liverpool the treble) and again in ’96 when Cantona scored in the last minutes. In 1994 United beat Chelsea 4 – 0 and became only the 4th club in history to do the ‘double’.
In 1999 United secured their place in history by becoming the first and so far only English club to do the ‘Treble’ (FA Cup, League Champions & European Cup). In the Nou Camp stadium Barcelona, United were trailing Bayern Munich 1 nil with less than two minutes of normal time remaining. United won a corner deep into stoppage time and TV commentator Clive Tyldesley famously said: “Can Manchester United score? They always score!” His prophetic words were made memorable as United goal keeper Peter Schmeichel raced the length of the pitch in a last gasp effort to force an equaliser. Schmeichel’s presence in the Bayern box cause panic which allowed Sheringham time to scuff home a low drive into the bottom corner of Oliver Kahns net. A minute later Solskjær stuck out a boot and diverted a David Beckham corner into the top right of the net winning the match for United.
