U.S. national team: The red, white… and black?

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Last year, the United States national soccer team began wearing red, white, and (mostly) black uniforms during away games. Sure, they look attractive. But the black kits make it easy to forget you’re watching the U.S. national team, as opposed to some unidentified club team. To be fair, other national selections, such as The Netherlands, wear unpatriotic unflag-ly colors while playing soccer. But I don’t have to like it. Hopefully U.S. soccer returns to red, white, and blue for next year’s World Cup.

November 3, 2009
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Comments (4)

  1. 1. Jack says...

    Wait, back up. Orange is not a patriotic color in the Netherlands? Have you heard of Queen’s Day?!

    http://goamsterdam.about.com/od/planatrip/a/color_orange.htm

    I think if you went to the Netherlands, and called a Dutchman “unpatriotic” for sporting orange, you’d get slapped.

  2. 2. Blake says...

    Consider me enlightened, Jack. Do you like our black, btw?

  3. 3. Jack says...

    I think, seriously, that the US team has long suffered from a lame uniform syndrome. They need something that looks cool and invokes a sense of pride and patriotism. Like Brazil’s yellow, or Holland’s orange. Something. They’ve gone through so many uniform changes lately their uniform has started to mimic their uneven finishes over the past few years.

  4. 4. Brian says...

    I’m pretty sure that is navy blue – not black.

    True, it is not American flag blue (slightly darker), but blue nonetheless.


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