Re: New USA Kits I'd go with: home - Confed Cup white with the horizontal stripes away - 2006 World Cup blue third - red with sash
Re: New USA Kits Keep the sash... Keep the home shirt red... ...just get rid of that disgusting red w/blue sash puke thing! Makes me want to throw up every time I see it! Red shirt; white sash; white shorts; blue socks. done. Think of the French kit reversed....
Re: New USA Kits I was thinking it might be cool to have red kits for home and blue kits for the road, at least for this cycle. So many teams use two colored kits and dont have a white kit, i think it would be cool to do it. I think for the world cup we should have a white kit because of tradition. And ill give you some rep cause i was thinking the same thing but didnt have the balls to post it first.
Re: New USA Kits I don't know, maybe because 1950 was a prime example of failure in soccer. Who gives a flying **** if we beat England? Seriously. We could have won the cup and no one would have cared. Then after that, we didn't qualify for the World Cup for 40 years. The US has a horribly limited soccer history. We should learn to accept it rather than overcompensating by celebrating pathetic little "victories" six decades old. There's a huge segment of US soccer fans who are like a pack of insecure teenage girls. Rather than accept reality, they revise it. My German friends always tell me that I'm bumbling idiot when I explain the significance of the sash. They say that US soccer's recent achievements appear to have much more significance than events prior to the American "dark age" of soccer. I think they're right.
Re: New USA Kits You said previously that horizontal stripes DO have historical significance. What is that significance? I honestly don't know.
Re: New USA Kits Well, horizontal stripes are significant in two ways 1.) US non-soccer history, the Flag, the reason the stripes are on several flags representing US groups, the symbolic reasons they were put on the flag 2.) Recent US soccer history. The first time we won qualifying outright on total points (w/o tie breaker), out primary jersey had horizontal stripes. Also in 2009, we beat Spain with our primary jersey being horizontal stripes. This was arguably the last time a team didn't "take us seriously" in a competition. 1990 home and away had a horizontal stripe/piping. All three 1995 kits had horizontal stripes. 1998 Home and away had horizontal stripes. 2006 away had horizontal stripes. 2008 home had horizontal stripes. Half of our primary jersey's since 1990 have had some kind of horizontal stripes or piping. If you look at our history of Jerseys since 1990, there are two noticeable trends. 1.) Jerseys, specifically home jerseys, with horizontal stripes and/or piping 2.) Third jerseys with a sash
Re: New USA Kits In my opinion, the tradition of the sash outweighs the tradition of the horizontal stripe. You say no one cares about the victory over England, at least in regards to jersey design. That's fine, but I highly doubt anyone cares about the horizontal stripe we had through some of the '90s and 2000s. I mean, we came in dead last in 1998 and 25th in 2006. I'm not saying I don't like the horizontal stripe, but I don't see how that is anymore traditional than the sash. Heck, we won our group for the first time in decades at the WC wearing the sash. My vote would be for red jersey with the blue sash as primary, and something like the navy 2006 jersey as secondary. Also, I didn't mind the blue pinstripe 3rd jerseys we had a few years back. If I'm not mistaken, those were worn at Copa America, and that was definitely not the US's finest hour. Anyhow, different strokes, etc.
Re: New USA Kits Well there's also this: I really think we should have a white primary with a red/blue horizontal stripe. I'd be fine with a red away with a sash (as long as it's not the horrible beauty pageant sash we have now) and a blue third kit similar to the 2006 WC.
Re: New USA Kits An update of this, with a simple Navy shirt with less prominent stars would please me a lot, actually. Red, white and blue are common to many, many counties/teams--stars are what everyone associates with America. Sashes actually seem sorta un-American to me. Revolutionaries had them but so did the redcoats. And the sash reminds me of something you'd see on an old European military uniform than anything Americans would dress up in. Other than that, I think an all black kit would be awesome.
Re: New USA Kits Nike just released a new template in their team store called "US 12". It has hoops AND a sash...
Re: New USA Kits Here's the template. If you click on the shirt, you'll notice the style is called "US 12". Above it is "Holland 12". http://tinyurl.com/42p6qyr
Re: New USA Kits Thanks for the link I agree, with the sash over the hoops and the number and crest over the chest...I think it would be something that would grow on me. I don't care what the pattern is, if it has a US national crest on it I am buying it.
Re: New USA Kits Here is a better picture of what it might look like... http://niketeam.nike.com/us/en_us/?l=shop,pdp,ctr-vis&uid=UD17400946 I hope this works, I wish I could post the picture but I lack in hacking skills
Re: New USA Kits http://niketeam.nike.com/us/en_us/?l=shop,pdp,ctr-vis&uid=UD17300893 I came up with this style, I tried to change the color of the sash to navy blue but they would let me do that for some reason. But this is what I was about to do with what Nike had available and I got to admit I like it because their's so much room to alternate the colors around.
Re: New USA Kits Im a minimalist by nature. when it comes to the unis, i always liked the white top, navy shorts, white socks variation. maybe a navy horizontal line on the top, nothing more.