The 2020 Croatian kits are on the hot press and ready to go!
Sources close to CroatianSports.com confirmed the above kits weeks ago. The Vatreni will of course keep their classic red and white checker design for the home kit. This version will have large squares with no extra design or pattern on the borders. The away kit will remain black with smaller black and grey checkers throughout. Personally, I like the black kits from World Cup 2018 much, much better.
The new kits will be worn for the first time later this month when Croatia take on Switzerland and Portugal in Qatar.
Yes, euro 2008 away jersey that Dudu made famous; blue w vertical checkered striped down left side is a classic. The euro 2012 away blue checkers over left shoulder was also pretty good. WC 2018 home and away are as good or better than Lotto 98 one’s imo.
There have been some crap shirts including the 2002 WC NIKE away shirts which were never offered for sale to the public; they had a floppy checkered collar. Looked clownish.
Ante you should do a feature on the evolution of the shirt over the years…
@Z
Lmao. That was the first thing I thought looking at the away kit. It looks like women’s jersey.
At least we can change them up each tournament. Countries like Argentina, Brazil, England, Italy, Germany. You really can’t do much with those jerseys. But then again, they have World Cup wins lmao.
I don’t care what we wear, as long as we win.
My fav was Euro 2008 away jersey.
I don’t care about the design, just want us to win EURO!!
And I throw a big U in to keep Nizic happy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8000457/Six-best-goals-European-Championship-history-Gascoigne-Balotelli.html
The iconic red & white checker must always be our 1st kit. I’m OK with the small changes they have been making, but it needs to remain true to the original. Even though I love the 2018 Black/Blue jerseys, i’m OK with changing this jersey every cycle, as long as the original red/white checkers remains consistent.
Euro 96 kits were good when people bought them and wore them without any name or number on them.
Nice collar, with full checkers on each side.
The second you put a number on it, more than half the checkers get blotched out.
That’s just something people always say.
The original is always best.
The Euro 96 kits are good, but the big white block behind the numbers ruined it a bit. Made it look like it was unfinished, with some checkers appearing on the back, but not consistently.
The newer kits fixed this issue by making the entire back of the kits white.
Our World Cup 2018 kits are the best because of this.
^
Correct!
The original is the best euro 96
Not disagreeing, anything from our ’98 run is classic. The home jerseys were ugly, as were most styles from the 90’s. Away was solid.
haha yeah that 2002 thing was dogshit lol. Even in 98 the visibility of numbering was an issue but, as others have said, the home 98 one is the best of all time.
Someone posted on this site a year or so ago a mock-up of like a new version of that 98 kit and it looked great SO we’ll never use that lol
98 classic
I wonder if we like the jerseys we just do best in
@ BZ
Disagree.
The away ’98 was awesome. My 2nd fave jersey after the away 2018 one.
Never got why you guys get so hyped up on the jerseys. Wget some checkers on there and who cares.
1998 home jerseys were, by far, the worst imo.
I just called the Nike store in Manhattan
And they had no idea what I was talking
About. They never even heard of Croatia.
These kits are Fake news!
Kova still can’t perform in the box says Lampard
And his wife.
Any news on Kova?
Ya I feel it will look better in life…
This euro better go on
It’s my first one I’m attending and we all secretly know we got a great chance at causing a stink there and who knows where we can place
Nothing will ever beat the WC2018 away strip but I really like the new away one.
And I bet it’s gonna look 100 times better i real life than on a shiny internet graphic. Like many have said, I’m glad they stuck to the darker side for the away one.
Any news on when they hit the selves??
The jerseys weren’t terrible
But for sure that number thing sucked
Now surely we have a much more bigger stake of jerseys sold then ever before
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/b5/7e/09b57ece2e34cd541ea774c429070b17.jpg
Here’s a nice pic of that gross white cloth over our 2002 kits:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GAC74J/soccer-fifa-world-cup-2002-group-g-italy-v-croatia-GAC74J.jpg
2002 World Cup kits were the worst, simply because of that weird thing we were forced to do with our number
(where they printed out the numbers onto a square cloth with a white background and pinned it to our checkered kits).
I assume they did this because the checkers somehow interfere with the visibility of the number.
We had this problem for a long time and it messed up pretty much all our kits (with them having to put some weird white area around the number).
We only recently fixed this by simply making the back of our kits a single white color.
But in 2002, they actually printed a separate piece of cloth with numbers and stitched it (or pinned it) to the backs of the kits. I remember it came loose on Boris Zivkovic’s kit during one of the games and his number was flapping off his back.
Black and brown are two different colors.
Agreed
Montreal Canadiens style
Love to see a retro 98 or something
What would u Guys say were our worst jerseys?
02 World Cup?
I’m still not sure if I totally loved the 16 euro
These black ones sort of remind me of em
At least we got past this black stigma
Once u go black….
Wish we could ride out a kit til we were sick of it. We could be like the Bears or Packers with our black ’18 ones. Wear those beauties for the next 100 years.
I’d love to see the away in a black and red type checkers
Something different
I’d be curious to see some design where we incorporate red, white, blue with the sahovnica in the middle.
I’m just happy the QR Code kits were fake.
That would have been embarassing.
These red and white home kits with the large squares are great. Looked amazing at the World Cup, and these will look great at the Euros.
I’m glad that it looks like we are sticking with this large checkered design (with just minor accents here and there).
I’m also glad that we’re going with black being the main color for our away kits again. But, most importantly, the checkers are present all over the kit itself.
I don’t mind our old blue away kits from previous years… but the problem with our blue away kits from the past is that their main color was blue and the checkers were just minor accents (under or above the sleeves).
THE CHECKERS SHOULD NEVER BE JUST ACCENTS!
Hopefully we stick with this black, FULLY checkered theme for our away kits moving forward as well.
Bigger checkers next time though.
The black ones looks like a women’s jersey because that is a women’s jersey. It’s not my favorite, I too would prefer it had bigger checkers, but I also think it will look slightly better with the red numbers on the front. The red one is similar to the last one, but I think it’s slightly better. I’d prefer the sleeves to be all white, but it’s still pretty nice.
Kits are fine.
I wish the black ones had bigger checkers. Might be hard to see these small ones when watching on TV.
The blue stripe down the side of the home kits are kind of nostalgic. Reminds me of World Cup 2002.
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Pathetic
=U=
Za Dom
I bet you poofters can’t wait to wear your modric , or who ever besides your own name jersey at the cro picnic’s talking shit . Lol
The black looks like a woman’s jersey.
Why the accents? Makes it look bad.
The white kits are basically the same last WC. The black kits are nasty af. Better to just stick with the 2018 black kits.
Agreed Ante. 2018 much much better.
Looks kind of femme.
I like i like it a lot
I will look very handsome in those kits