When we watch a football match, the thing that allows us to quickly identify where they belong from a group of fast-moving players is probably the jersey.
jerseys often become the logo of a team and are familiar to everyone.
are like the "Red Army" Liverpool, "Bumblebee" Dortmund, " Sheets Legion " Atletico Madrid, "Blue Army" Chelsea , etc. in the mouth of fans. These nicknames are actually derived from the colors or pattern elements of their jerseys.
fans also often use the sentence "Italy/Germany/England is XX-colored this summer" to celebrate a team's victory in a certain competition.
It can be seen that the jersey is a crucial cultural element for a team.
It is not just a piece of clothing for a team with a complete organization and its own cultural construction, but also a cultural symbol representing the club or the national team. With the passage of time, it has become a part of the team culture and integrated into the team's spiritual branch.
In the century-old development history of modern football, jerseys have become the witness of football.
Over the past century, jerseys have also evolved. Compared with the past, the styles and materials of jerseys have undergone tremendous changes.
Today we will talk about things about jerseys.
1 Jersey fabric
In the Middle Ages
football became popular, and players could wear whatever they wanted on the field.
The first football clubs appeared in the 19th century, and the shirt served as the original jersey.
* To adapt to the British weather and cold environment.
After 2000
the fabric of jerseys is mainly "Lycra" fabric with better elasticity.
Features: The jersey becomes very light and slimmer.
In 2002,
NIKE and ADIDAS also used the double-layer jersey design.
considered that in order to prevent the jersey from sweating and sticking to the body, adding a layer of mesh in the middle can serve as a separation.
Now
fabrics can be made to be light and comfortable, breathable and quick-drying, highly elastic, high-strength, free of movement and resistant to pull. Jerseys have become mainstream with slim fit.
2 Style design
Think the jersey is the style worn by the players? No, no, no, that's just one of them...
(03-04 season league home locker room ending version Beckham )
ending version
The jersey that the players put on the field, the jersey used in the game.
is not officially for sale, but some clubs will conduct charity sales in the form of auctions.
(adidas Real Madrid 19/20 second away player version jersey)
player version
In most cases, the jersey material is the same as the off-field version, but there is no name, number and seal.
will be sold officially and through agents.
(Nike Paris Saint-Germain 201819 season away jersey locker room version)
locker room version
game backup jersey that has not been worn by the players. There are usually 4 jerseys (2 long and short) for players to replace in major games.
is not officially for sale, but there will be some special channels for it to flow out of the market.
(adidas Russian national team 2020 European Cup home jersey fan version)
fan version
is quite different from the final version. The surface can be seen to be different, and the material of the jersey is also different.
will be sold officially and through agents.
(Manchester United's 1999 Champions League final victory jersey replica)
replica
jerseys commemorating the team's wonderful performance season. Most of them were remade according to the craftsmanship and materials of the time.
will be sold officially and through agents.
(Adidas released the Bayern Munich 120th anniversary commemorative jersey)
The commemorative edition
is mostly to commemorate events (such as the club's centenary) or to commemorate special games (such as the Champions League final). The jersey material is mostly the same as the fan version.
will be sold officially and through agents.
3 jersey category
The team has three sets of jerseys, home, away, and third jerseys (alternative jerseys).
(The picture shows the home and away jerseys for the Nigerian national team in 2020)
home jerseys
usually wear clothes that match your theme color. If a team's theme color is dark, the home uniform will also be relatively dark. Most teams are light colors as home jerseys and dark colors as away jerseys. Of course there are many exceptions.
away team jersey
generally wear away jerseys, but the prerequisite is that the color must be significantly different from the home team jersey;
If the away team's away jersey is similar to the home team's home jersey, look at the color of the third team uniform, wear the third team uniform;
If the third team uniform is also similar to the home team jersey, compare the away team's home jersey, and the difference is obvious, wear the away team's home jersey.
4 History of the evolution of national football jerseys (1921-2019)
All jerseys worn by the century-old national football team.
Thanks to the drawings from @ Chinese Football Research Institute 000 three-pass classmate.
More content about the national football jersey will be shared separately. Please stay tuned for
5 The most bizarre design on the football field
01
2012 "muscle shirt" jersey made by Regina for the Calabria region
This jersey imitates a perspective view of the human muscles, and the texture is very clear. From a distance, it even looks like a group of naked muscles in the draft, but from a close distance, it is a bit scary. Didn’t the referee not let me take off my clothes and celebrate? I designed a muscle-type jersey~~~
02
Spanish C team Heya
This jersey has dense object phobia fans will obviously feel unhappy after seeing it. Hoya is located in the Murcia region in southeastern Spain, and the inspiration for this jersey is from the rich vegetables in the region and is known as the "Spanish vegetable garden". Now Cabbage has also successfully entered the Spanish team's jersey.
03
Spanish Second Division B Team CD Lugo
The black jersey has red squids, which looks greasy and bloody at first glance, which is terrifying.
04
Athletic Bilbao League Cup Home 2004-2005 Home
This postmodern jersey is a team uniform designed by Athletic Bilbao in 2004 to welcome the 100th anniversary of the club. At that time, an artist was specially invited to help, but the effect was obviously unsatisfactory. Athletic Bilbao only wore this jersey in the League Cup, and then donated the team uniform to the museum. The style of this jersey is like advertising sausages.
6 inventory of previous World Cup jersey brands
Looking at the evolution of World Cup jerseys, Adidas firmly controlled its voice in the football field in the early days. Adidas once again reached a peak in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa;
No player from a country in the 1994 World Cup was wearing a Nike jersey. In 1993, Nike officially invaded the football field. By 1998, there were already 5 teams in the top 32, and Nike ranked first in the share list for the first time in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil;
"We are proud of Africa", this is the slogan of PUMA. With long-term investment in African teams, the number of PUMA's teams has also grown rapidly in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. PUMA has made the top spot for the first time with the number of African teams.
From the 1998 World Cup in France to the present, the three-legged squad has emerged, the situation of the three giants has been further consolidated, accounting for more than 76%, and the space of other brands has been compressed, and the three giants have continued to have a monopoly situation.
7World Cup champion jersey brand
From 978 World Cup to 2018 World Cup, Adidas is the leader in ten World Cups. Its sponsored team won the championship five times, Nike won the championship twice, and French Rooster, Umbro , and Puma each won the championship once.
jersey is not just a piece of clothing that players wear when they come on the court. The cultural connotation and historical precipitation behind it are the banner that inspires players to fight tenaciously in the arena, the manifestation of the team's spirit core, and a cultural symbol remembered by fans. It symbolizes inheritance, promotes personality, and is soaked in the sweat of every player who has fought for it.
This is also the highest significance of a battle suit to this sport.
