The 2018 World Cup is approaching, the list of participants is almost complete (only the teams that will play the playoffs are missing) and Adidas wanted to launch the new jerseys in view of the world championship in Russia.
If Italy , with Puma , has launched the new blue shirt with a lot of celebration for Buffon’s 20 years in the national team , the German company has unveiled what will be the next uniforms worn by the teams that have Adidas as technical sponsor.
At first glance, especially for the most nostalgic, the new uniforms designed by the Teutonic giant make clear references toshirts worn in the 80s-90s . Lack of originality or a deliberate tribute to vintage
A dive into the past where unforgettable sports scenes of many champions of the caliber of Maradona, Matthaus, Valderrama , etc come to mind …
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ARGENTINA
The Seleccion jersey, with the classic alternation of the biancocelesti bands, approaches the golden years with the Pibe de Oro protagonist. From the World Cup won in 1986 , to the victory of the Copa America in Ecuador 1993 , passing through the second place in Italy 1990. The Albiceleste stripes are of various shades but the pointed collar is a detail worn by Argentine footballers during the 1993 South American tournament with Gabriel Omar Batistuta as protagonist;

BELGIUM
The team of the Red Devils qualified in complete tranquility and will thus take part in its 13th World Championship . Lukaku and his teammates will wear a jersey that is very reminiscent of the one worn during the 1984 European Championship held in France. The reference is linked above all to the rhombuses placed on the chest with the logo of the Belgian national football federation in the center;

COLOMBIA
The Cafeteros shirt is a tribute to the greatWorld Cup held in Italy in 1990 in which the South American national team reached a historic qualification for the round of 16. It was the Colombia of the golden generation with players of the caliber of Carlos Valderrama, Rene Higuita and Faustino Asprilla . The shirt worn during the Italian expedition is very similar to the current one with a large presence of yellow, with the red and blue graphic design on the sides to recall the colors of the flag. On the back the slogan “United for a country”;

GERMANY
Equally nostalgic is the shirt of the German national team, winner of the last World Cup in Brazil 2014. The reference, however, is to another World Cup won, that of 1990. Those were the years of the “Italians”Matthaus, Voller and Brehme , from West Germany and the rebirth of a country, after the fall of the Wall, which would officially reunite shortly thereafter. The revival of the design of the horizontal lines of the German flag is clearly the same as that of the Italian World Cup. The substantial difference in the choice of colors: via red and yellow, for Russia 2018 the lines will be monochromatic;

JAPAN
For the national team of the Rising Sun the touch of the jerseys is more abstract. In fact, it is not a reinterpretation of a football shirt, but of the country’s artisan uniformwith Sashiko embroidery stitch and a shade of Katsuiro blue used by samurai under armor. The details are also the touches of red and white of the Japanese flag;

MEXICO
The Tricolor national team has returned to wearing an almost completely green jersey, with a pointed collar and a tone-on-tone play of colors in the side area. The thought leads to the World Cup played at home in 1986 , when they were eliminated by West Germany . That World Cup, however, was won by Maradona’s Argentina .
On the back of the shirt an inscription “I am Mexico” and the white shorts with red socks that complement the colors of the flag;

RUSSIA
The host national team had no qualification obstacles since they will participate by right in the 2018 World Cup. However, Adidas wanted to pay homage to the Soviet team, at the time still under the USSR effigy, which in 1988 won gold at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 thanks to the attacking duo Dobrovolski – Mykhaylychenko , both former Serie A, Genoa the first, Sampdoria the second.
The lines of the new shirt start from the shoulders to the front with small details that highlight the colors of the flag and the eagle. In addition there is also a sentence: “Together for the victory”, the initials CCCP has been removed ;

SPAIN
The Red Furies, 2010 World Champions, pay homage to the American World Cup in USA ’94 . In that edition they reached the quarter-finals, beaten by the Azzurri thanks to goals from Roberto and Dino Baggio . In that match we also remember the episode of Mauro Tassotti’s elbow to Luis Enrique with a lot of disqualification with the TV test. Like Belgium, rhombuses are also present on the Roja shirt, albeit vertically. On the strong red base the colors are shaded with red, yellow and blue. In reality it might seem like an optical effect which means that looking at the shirt from a distance, one gets the impression that instead of a blue it is a purple color.
However, the sum of red, yellow and purple reminds all Spaniards of theflag of republican Spain , later abolished by the Franco regime . Today that flag has no official value, but is waved in leftist demonstrations, or used by republican associations and movements, which claim its use instead of the current Rojigualda, the official Spanish flag. All this in a period of strong internal crisis with the Catalonia question .

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