Retro Football Shirts » kit http://www.retrofootieshirts.co.uk Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:52:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Juventus Retro Shirts http://www.retrofootieshirts.co.uk/juventus-retro-shirts/ http://www.retrofootieshirts.co.uk/juventus-retro-shirts/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:54:09 +0000 edd http://www.retrofootieshirts.co.uk/?p=44 juvefeature

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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