A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS…
Not much to say here. This is what the new Croatian shirts will look like during Euro 2012 qualifying. I don’t mind the ‘red and white checker’ look as it has been Croatia’s flagship symbol for years- as long as the mini-checkers don’t make players glitter and look like runway models running up and down the field. The away blue jersey is proof that Nike has to go as Croatia’s shirt maker. This is absolutely hideous!
Memo to HNS: Go back to Lotto or go Adidas! End of story.
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the away jersey would be ok if it was all blue, white shorts, blue socks. the red/white checkered short sleeves are too distracting.
they should definitely switch to adidas.
@Anonymous
Thanks for the update on UFC. I would have posted something, however, I'm not a fan of UFC and don't follow it.
There are plenty of UFC fans on this site that would be interested. If someone would like to contribute, we would be interested in a UFC post before big Croatian fights.
Kind of off topic but for tonight's UFC 110 Fight Card featured 4 Croatians. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic also happened to earn a TKO victory over a fellow Croat from Australia Anthony Perosh beating him bloody. The other Croatians did not fare so well…http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=eventdetail.home&eid=2628
@someguy,
Its also "the first time I've seen such an occurrence" that is why I took the picture. I tried to be pretty discreet, I don't think he noticed.
@Denis
You don't see that everyday…as a matter of fact that's the first time I've seen such an occurrence. Did the guy notice that you took the picture?
Simply Aweful.. I can;t believe how ugly the blue one is.
They should definately get away from Nike. Adidas, Lotto, Umbro…anything else.
The ones from the 05/06 era are the best with the checkered stripe down front left side.
Tony
@ziva istina,
Yes, I agree that the Croatian shirt "is not a big money maker for nike. Only hrvati buy the jersey as opposed to other nations."
Check out this picture I took in Nice, France right before 2006 world cup.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56/paluka81/europe%202006/France/Nice/Nice-Monkey.jpg
The diaspora will still buy the jersey, regardless. If we were in the WC, you can bet we would have sold a large number, but the sales will be low now because of no WC.
The Cro jersey is not a big money maker for nike. Only hrvati buy the jersey as opposed to other nations.
I agree that the away shirt could be better. But I like them both, how can I not
I am not certain if the national team really cares how many of these jerseys are sold — as they may get a flat fee from Nike — but I would have to think they'll suffer financially if people (especially the Croatian diaspora) aren't buying 'em, no?
I stopped adding to my collection of national team jerseys a few years ago, as they were all beginning to look too similar to one another.
Needless to say, I won't rush out to buy one of these either.
Tom in Winnipeg
Hey guys, been a while…I have definitely seen that blue jersey before (more or less the same, save for the checkers on the blue part) at euro 2004 in portugal (I believe we also had something similar in world cup 02):
http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/78990837.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF87892155F29F61288AC1CAC19C9E51C0BE19842FFD8C1D9B7FC1F7A934E00B352A76D5
I think the blue would of been a bit nicer if they eliminated the red/white sleeves and just left it all blue with the faded checks, but alas, the jersey over all is a disaster. It looks like they just put a blue practice pinny over the home jersey!
I actually don't mind the home one, to be honest…it looks a bit more red based then white based (which is the way we have always had our shirts)….I am not saying it's great, but let's wait and see how it looks when worn by the boys.
As of now, I am with Petar… I think I will be picking up only the home shirt.
I buy the home and away for every new design, I am only buying the home this time. The away kits are the same horrid design they gave us for the 2002 World Cup.
Honestly, it looks like they ran out of ideas.
I would be okay with going back to lotto at this point.
Many of the Nike jerseys for the other countries are bad as well.
The home look OK, while the away shirt looks really bad. I guess we will have to wait and see how they actually look when worn by the team, but not encouraging.
Didn't we have an away kit with the checkers on the sleeves not too long ago? A recycled design….
This looks like a half-assed effort from Nike. I thought gold would be incorporated into the design, but the only gold I can see is the outline of the HNS badge. Jerseys will be debuted on March 3rd against Belgium.
Ugh, that away kit looks horrible.
all of the Nike templates for 09-10 are horrendous, plus I think these kits might be tight fitting , from the looks of these pics…another reason why I won't be buying them probably and just stick with our Euro 08 kits..
The away jerseys are absolutely horrid. What the hell. How is that even a plausible design?
All I can say is bwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
First Turkey, then Ukraine, now this. Croatia will look like little ballerinas, checkers glittering in the sun.