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[dougstaaarrr]

PARAGUAY KITS 1996/97

Paraguay had worn Reebok kits of a somewhat similar design at the 1995 Copa América, which had the Reebok logotype below the collar insert, but come the 1998 World Cup qualifiers they had a refined version. The away kit was very rare I believe but found some images online for which I believe it was worn with white shorts and socks.

The home kit was even worn against Peru - which would have needed a degree in extreme differentiation to tell the teams apart when they faced each other!!!!

José Luis Chilavert wore his signature "El Buldog" strip, which he also wore for his club side Vélez Sarsfield, but without any sponsorship - obviously. It seems as if the bulldog strip was made by Lotto, given their logo featured on the shorts. Prior to this he did wear an Uhlsport design that appeared to be badge engineered with the Paraguayan crest covering the Uhlsport logo, and a Reebok patch also added! I've put this as the alternate goalkeeper kit.

EDIT - there was a third goalkeeper kit that Chilavert wore, a green Puma Cellerator strip but with the Puma logos covered up by the Paraguay crest, and the Reebok patch added!!

 

[JulesMate007]

Football last night can get in the bin... if I see a tractor or other agricultural vehicle on the way to work today I am going to scream.
Anyway...

ENGLAND KITS 1988/89

So, in 1987, to be exact, Umbro introduced the new England home kit - pretty much sticking to the white/navy/red colour scheme introduced on the last set of strips, but now with a crew-necked collar with popper fastening. This would be a style that Umbro would widely use from the start of the 1987/88 season at club level. The shirts featured an elaborate shadow pattern, and the shorts featured shadow chequerprint.

At the time, the previous red away kit worn since 1984 remained the away choice, but by 1988, two new change strips would be launched. A new red change kit would come in April 1988, followed very quickly by a sky blue third kit, which was apparently assigned as the away strip for the 1988 European Championship. As it transpired, England didn't wear that sky blue kit for any matches at senior level.

Also - kitmakers, know your differences between replica and match-worn shirts
The sky blue kit was sold as a replica, and had sky blue and white striping inside the navy collar and cuffs. However, the actual match-worn shirts, which did get worn by the U21 team, had RED and white striping inside the navy, as per the home shirt. If anything compare and contrast with the World Cup 1986 kits with the v-neck, they were very much following on from those. So now you know!

The grey goalkeeper kit from the 1986 World Cup was retained as a first-choice initially, before a fluorescent yellow/black zigzag strip became the new first-choice for Euro '88, though Peter Shilton would change to the grey shirt for the first group stage against the Republic of Ireland due to a slight colour clash.

After England's poor showing at Euro '88, the kits were retained, but a blue/navy version of the goalkeeper strip was introduced and became first-choice, though the fluorescent yellow/black shirt was retained as the alternate.





And with that I believe I've now completed all of the Euro '88 tournament kits

Where are the shorts of players jersey mate?

 

[ovide]

Where are the shorts of players jersey mate?

x2

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Sorry about that I was rushing as I was posting them

Original post updated with the England 1988 shorts/socks!

 

[dougstaaarrr]

ASTON VILLA KITS 1983/84

Aston Villa had a radical change of look in 1983 when Le Coq Sportif decided on dispensing with the traditional sky blue sleeves, instead going for a claret shirt with sky blue side panels. But that was not all, claret shorts would also be introduced as first choice.

If the home kit was quite a radical change, so too was the away - an all-white strip which featured claret and amber narrow hoops.

Goalkeepers wore shadow-striped jerseys - the white alternate shirt is exceptionally rare. I only know of its existence as backup goalkeeper Mervyn Day wore it on the squad photograph soon after Mita Copiers came on board as sponsors during the season.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

ASTON VILLA KITS 1984/85

I've put this as a seperate entry, and you'll see why... Villa must have felt the claret shorts on the home strip was one radical change too far, so the white away shorts would be paired with the kit instead for 1984/85, creating the more familiar claret-white-sky blue look, even though the shorts had a small bit of amber on the hem.

Meanwhile, a new away kit was introduced, featuring shadow hoops, v-neck collar and sky blue used as a tertiary colour - replacing amber.
Sky blue shorts were also paired, as well as a new sock design - incidentally the shorts were often used with the home kit on occasion.

Goalkeepers wore the same shirts as they did in 1983/84.

 

[ashh_nocturne]

CHELSEA KITS 1986/87

Now, for one of the most curious set of Chelsea kits ever... and just like the present day, sponsors seemed to stay away from Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea had been wearing Le Coq Sportif kits from 1980. but when their contract was up in 1986, rather than seek a new supplier, they decided to go "in house"... probably the first type of its kind in English football.

The "Chelsea Collection" wasn't just the team strips, but a range of leisurewear too. The kits themselves were fairly basic, with a v-neck collar, shoulder stripe and rather "athletic" looking shorts, and a new club crest would also be launched. The away strip was a radical switch to jade, with silver trim.

Initially the shirts were worn unsponsored, such was Chelsea's struggle to attract shirt sponsorship. The first logo to appear was a curious slimming aid drink known as "Bai Ling Tea", but it was quickly withdrawn when it was found the product was bogus. Chairman Ken Bates had his Grange Farm property (which sold dairy stuff and ice cream, apparently) on the away shirt for one game, before Simod became sponsors for the rest of the season.

Another curiosity was that during the season, the block numbers similar to those worn on the Le Coq Sportif shirts were replaced by outlined Umbro fonts (even with the logo). Indeed, Umbro would supply Chelsea's kit from 1987, so these in-house efforts would last just a single season.

Goalkeepers wore stock Reusch shirts - at the time first-choice goalkeeper Eddie Niedzwiecki ran a sports shop specialising in goalkeeping gear, of which he was a main UK stockist of Reusch equipment. When Simod became sponsors their logo obscured the Reusch logo on the shirt.
The shirts were worn with the outfield shorts, which was standard practice at the time.

Never in my life have I seen these Chelsa kits online or irl, not even in passing! Every day you learn something new...

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Never in my life have I seen these Chelsa kits online or irl, not even in passing! Every day you learn something new...

You do indeed.
In fact, last season Chelsea even re-launched their Chelsea Collection range including remakes of the 1986/87 shirts.

 

[Lucas94NZ]

PARAGUAY KITS 1996/97

Paraguay had worn Reebok kits of a somewhat similar design at the 1995 Copa América, which had the Reebok logotype below the collar insert, but come the 1998 World Cup qualifiers they had a refined version. The away kit was very rare I believe but found some images online for which I believe it was worn with white shorts and socks.

The home kit was even worn against Peru - which would have needed a degree in extreme differentiation to tell the teams apart when they faced each other!!!!

José Luis Chilavert wore his signature "El Buldog" strip, which he also wore for his club side Vélez Sarsfield, but without any sponsorship - obviously. It seems as if the bulldog strip was made by Lotto, given their logo featured on the shorts. Prior to this he did wear an Uhlsport design that appeared to be badge engineered with the Paraguayan crest covering the Uhlsport logo, and a Reebok patch also added! I've put this as the alternate goalkeeper kit.

Chilavert also wore a badge-engineered version of a green Puma goalkeeper shirt, where the Paraguay badge covered the Puma logo and the Reebok logo was added.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Chilavert also wore a badge-engineered version of a green Puma goalkeeper shirt, where the Paraguay badge covered the Puma logo and the Reebok logo was added.

Oh yes he did indeed... just found the pic!
I've done that template too so I'll add it when I get chance... seems to have additional padding on the shirt too don't know if it's a different version of the Cell jersey or aftermarket padding... I know Puma like many other brands had some localised manufacture between continents - e.g. Puma in South America had similar but not exactly the same designs as say, Puma in Europe...

 

[dougstaaarrr]

I found another vid of Chilavert wearing the Puma strip again, only I can't tell if his shirt had padding on the shoulders.
It also had a white number 1 on the back. Post has been updated!

 

[Lucas94NZ]

Oh yes he did indeed... just found the pic!
I've done that template too so I'll add it when I get chance... seems to have additional padding on the shirt too don't know if it's a different version of the Cell jersey or aftermarket padding... I know Puma like many other brands had some localised manufacture between continents - e.g. Puma in South America had similar but not exactly the same designs as say, Puma in Europe...

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Indeed. There was also a variant of the Puma 1998 jersey he used for Velez, which had a gradient.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Indeed. There was also a variant of the Puma 1998 jersey he used for Velez, which had a gradient.

have seen that too, and a red version...

 

[Lucas94NZ]

have seen that too, and a red version...

Indeed it proves that those brands outsourced those designs there, I rememeber also River Plate in 1999-2001 had Bonano wearing a silver and maroon modified version of the Baleo design (there weren't the panels on the sides) and the black and red Vader design, with the trapezoidal design a bit more thicker than the regular design as well.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

They did, it was very common with a lot of brands, especially Puma and adidas at the time... a lot of localised input. I found this out when doing the Argentina kits for the 1994 World Cup, where their Predator goalkeeper design was similar but not the same as everyone else's... and likewise the USA had a Predator shirt which too was similar but not the same

It does make it more difficult to determine exact designs. Puma had similar in the UK up until 2016 for most of their teams as their kits were actually made under licence by another company (who previously used the Kit@ brand). So their designs were similar but not exactly the same.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Sorry guys I'm going to have to take an extended break from FIFA editing for now... lot of real life stuff, my mental health isn't in the best place, and I'll be honest I need a holiday to get my head into gear.

See you all on the other side - hopefully with a lot of old WIP kits finished off.

 

[LucasX]

Sorry guys I'm going to have to take an extended break from FIFA editing for now... lot of real life stuff, my mental health isn't in the best place, and I'll be honest I need a holiday to get my head into gear.

See you all on the other side - hopefully with a lot of old WIP kits finished off.

We wish you well, friend. We all need to take time for ourselves.

 

[Lucas94NZ]

They did, it was very common with a lot of brands, especially Puma and adidas at the time... a lot of localised input. I found this out when doing the Argentina kits for the 1994 World Cup, where their Predator goalkeeper design was similar but not the same as everyone else's... and likewise the USA had a Predator shirt which too was similar but not the same

It does make it more difficult to determine exact designs. Puma had similar in the UK up until 2016 for most of their teams as their kits were actually made under licence by another company (who previously used the Kit@ brand). So their designs were similar but not exactly the same.

I see. I rememeber that also some Spanish clubs had their own between mid 1980s and the mid 1990s (such as the one with the wave on the chest worn by Molina in 1995 for Atletico, the one with the optical illusion-like checkered pattern worn by Valencia, Tenerife and Logrones in 1991 and 1992 to say a few) due to Puma at that time operating in Spain through another company.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Hi everyone bit of a flying visit - off on holiday next week... I need it.
In the meantime check this out...

 

[Lucas94NZ]

Hi everyone bit of a flying visit - off on holiday next week... I need it.
In the meantime check this out...

Korea Republic 1996-98 Home kit. The black numbers were used for Atlanta 96, the white numbers for the 1996 Asian Cup and the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.