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Jerseys for the soccer World Cup in Qatar: In all hideousness – Sport

No, the biggest problem with the upcoming football World Cup in Qatar is really not the question of how the shirts will look like that the footballers there will wear. But they still deserve a quick look, a lot of national kits have been unveiled this week, it’s an event by now.

The jersey presentation used to not be an event, which was also due to the fact that the national jerseys used to be similar or remained similar – what should you present there, the new collar? Take Uruguay, for example, this country in South America that is so enigmatic from a European point of view because it is comparatively rarely visited: Uruguay as a whole is sky-blue to the imagination, almost celestebecause the jerseys of the Uruguayan national team have always been sky blue, Bernard Lions proves this very nicely in his richly illustrated standard work “1000 camisetas de fútbol”.

After all, the sky blue of Uruguay is preserved as a collar and cuffs and as a subtle shadow on the jersey.

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Maybe more light blue, maybe baby blue. That’s what they looked like in the distant World Cup year 1966, when Horacio Federico Troche, wearing a jersey pretending to be innocent, gave good Uwe Seeler a good slap in the face. From then on, every person from Uruguay was called Uru in German vernacular, with the added exclamation mark it sounded like a pure battle cry.

Football: The jersey of the German team, worn here by Leroy Sané.

The jersey of the German team, worn here by Leroy Sané.

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One might have imagined the heated Uru to be bright red, but it was light blue, just as the Brazilian was yolk yellow and the German, appropriately, black and white. There must be constants. But now that kit launches have become events, the designers at Puma felt something new needed to be shown off, and that new thing has been circling the web ever since, in all abomination. In the case of Uruguay, the sky blue is preserved as the collar and cuffs and as a subtle shadow on the jersey. But the whole thing is dominated by the shirt number, which is now worn on the front and packaged in a graphic element that is reminiscent of an app on a smartphone. there Life yes, the incessantly pressing and clicking young people: in their smartphones. And footballers may now have to look like symbols on a handheld phone to survive somehow.

Also a legitimate question: Did this World Cup in Qatar deserve nice jerseys at all?

The allegedly forward-looking design also looks strangely museum-like in other national teams, for example, the Austrians are condemned to wear the famous Dalli-Dalli honeycomb on their shirt in 2022, an element from the studio decoration of a 70s quiz show. However, the Austrians are not playing at the World Cup: a stroke of luck in many respects. Switzerland, on the other hand, appears and looks like a first-aid kit that has been lying in the sun for too long. To paraphrase a Twitter user, he calls himself EdvonSnack: “The Puma jerseys just look like the rags you can usually buy on a busy beach promenade between themed mugs, overpriced sunglasses and rubber animals.”

Football: After all, it's nice and green and colourful: the jersey of Senegal.

After all, pretty green and colourful: the jersey of Senegal.

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That’s what they look like, it’s all true and yet you still can’t believe they’re serious. They are listed as away kits on their website, which would mean: the home kits could be okay. On the other hand: what is once in the world is in the world. What is visible, if only as an away kit, will remain visible. And what was once light blue will no longer be light blue in the future.

No, the biggest problem with the upcoming football World Cup in Qatar is really not the question of how the shirts will look like that the footballers there will wear. And from that point of view, believing in the way in people, it could of course also have been the case that the jersey designers said: If a World Cup is already completely wrong, then it should also look completely wrong. That would of course be a top point.

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