The Socceroos, or whatever their other name is these days, have released their new jersey for upcoming matches.
It’s something of a change from their previous jerseys, with the green trim being abandoned for a more streamlined look.
The press release accompanying the jersey release says that the design is supposed to imitate the iconic wave rock in Western Australia.
We don’t see it… but you might!
Interestingly, both sides will wear identical strips. Gold at home. Blue, or ‘obsidian’, away. The blue represents Australia’s surfing culture.
There won’t be a complete absence of green, either, with there to be stripes running down the side of the strip.
The home socks will be predominantly green with a gold graphic, while the away socks will be an inversion of that colour scheme.
Photos: Twitter
Steph Catley and Matthew Leckie had to step up and give some quotes for the release of the jerseys, so here’s what they said.
“From the moment I tried on the new shirt during the design process, I could tell that it is one of the lightest playing shirts that I have ever worn, which helps our performance, especially when we play in some the hot conditions around the world. I can’t wait to wear it on Thursday night for the first time,” Leckie said.
That’s good, at least it’s light.
“The design and technology used in this new strip is fantastic and I know the girls are excited about bringing both National Teams together to wear identical strips,” Catley said.
“It is always an honour to pull on the national team jersey and this latest version will definitely go down as one of the most iconic national team jerseys as the first strips worn both by the Socceroos and Matildas.”
What do you reckon about these jerseys Roarers? Love them? Hate them? Ambivalent to them?
jupiter53
Roar Pro
I have a vomit shirt. I have worn it regularly to national games since I bought it for the home leg of the play off with Argentina prior to USA 94. Sadly, it had a repeated record of failure until 2005 when it saw us home against Uruguay. When I wore it to the Asian Cup final last year some passing lunatic offered me $100 for it. Even more surprisingly, the lunatic inside the shirt replied by saying it was not for sale at any price. The new shirt is fine, but it will never inspire cult insanity. The vomit shirt - so bad that it's brilliant!
Aaron
Roar Rookie
I dare say uncle junior the big problem with this kit is that the shirt has no green to it which would make it more aussie in appearance. Green socks aside because one would look like a right mug in full replica kit at the mall, pub or game for that matter. However a pair of dark green shorts pants should complete the look nicely and with white shoes would look rather good I reckon.
Kaks
Roar Guru
No, but they are significantly lighter
Realfootball
Guest
Horrible. I absolutely hate it. If I want a canary, I'll go to a pet shop.
Uncle Junior
Guest
Most heterosexual males have little fashion sense, so can someone explain what is the main problem they have with the kit? Is it just the gold shirt/gold shorts, or is it something else? The cut of the shirt? The length of the shorts? If it's just the colour of the home shorts, can't imagine it would take too much effort for the FFA to tell Nike to go back to green shorts. National Team replica shorts must retail for around $50-60. I can't imagine Nike manufactures too many for the consumer market, so I can't imagine it wouldn involve major stock redundancy.
AGO74
Guest
all we need is the palm tree on it and the socceroos could double as the Central Coast Mariners.
SM
Guest
Nike are just going through the motions at the minute. All their recent national kit releases have been awful apart from possibly Croatia and Portugal. This one appears dreadful, but I'll wait until I see it on the pitch before fully laying into it.
SM
Guest
New kits are released every two years to coincide with the World Cup and European Championships.
JB
Guest
Yuck
me too
Guest
On the blue i'd have preferred dark green sleeves and shorts. Or better yet - just all dark green. Dont mind the all yellow strip - yellow is an awful colour to combine with so why not go all in.
The Phantom Commissioner
Roar Rookie
So Brazil will be losing their blue shorts?
The Phantom Commissioner
Roar Rookie
Awful. I mean the shirts so-so but pairing it with yellow shorts and green socks?. Last kit was the best for many years.
Uncle Junior
Guest
If you've played any sport (real sport, not e-sport), you will know that competition organisers have regulations on the equipment you can wear. Of course Fifa is going to have regulations about what uniform teams wear. But, Nike's interpretation seems odd. Fifa says 1 kit must be predominantly light; the other predominantly dark. Not sure why the FFA didn't stick with green shorts. Fifa had the same regulations for WC2014 and we wore Gold Shirts, Green shorts & white socks.
aladdin sane
Guest
where the fk do FIFA get off telling nations what colours they're allowed to wear? I recon this is a good chance for the FFA to score some points with fans and tell them to get knicked. Bring back our green shorts, bring back our white socks ffs.
Batou
Guest
I reckon that looks OK. We've certainly had plenty worse!
Batou
Guest
To sell more of them...
marron
Guest
Thanks Kaks. That's rubbish though. :lol:
AR
Guest
Heresy! And it's green and GOLD!
Joe
Guest
Looks awesome!
Kaks
Roar Guru
http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/socceroos/the-reason-the-socceroos-have-unveiled-an-allgold-home-playing-strip/news-story/88a8f152ebe04851c64418d01976546a Reason why the green shorts have been scrapped