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    Mystery football shirt

    Just a quick request for help. I have a football shirt which I guess dates from around 1990. It's a white adidas shirt, in the style of the shirts worn by the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in that year's World Cup, only the trim is blue and grey rather than red and grey. There is no badge and no sponsor's logo. I've trawled the net but can't find anything that matches it. Does anyone know which team- if any- played in this kit, or is it just a generic shirt of the time?

    #2
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    Wild hunch- could it be a prototype for a never produced new DDR kit? Perhaps intended for the 1990 world cup? Originally intended to replace this bad boy:



    It'd be a good fact to invent, anyway.

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      #3
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      Can you post a photo of it, 1974DDR?

      Without one, I'd guess at a PSV Eindhoven 1988 away shirt:

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        #4
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        ...or (in a different style) a 1982 El Salvador home shirt...

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          #5
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          Are you sure it's not a generic shirt?

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            #6
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            Are we talking about a variation on this?:

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              #7
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              I assume so. This is the Soviet Union version:



              I would guess that it is a generic shirt, as adidas generally made such shirts available for amateurs in a variety of "standard" colours using templates that they introduced at major tournaments.

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                For some unexplained reason that has been lost in the mists of time, the USSR's Italia 90 shirt was missing the usual "CCCP" lettering on the front. I only noticed that a couple of years ago when I was looking at an old photograph.

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                  #9
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                  In that case my guess would be either a generic shirt or something worn by a proto-independent Estonia team.

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                    #10
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                    The CPSU lost control of the Baltics, Moldova and Armenia in elections before the tournament, and faced challenges pretty much everywhere.

                    They may well have decided that the "Union" of "Soviet Socialist" Republics was not as valuable a "brand" as it had been.

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                      blameless and ursus:

                      Yes, that's the shirt I had in mind: similar to the Soviet version, but replacing the red with blue, except for the collar which is white. Like Nesta, I also wondered whether it might be a prototype for the (soon to be ex-) DDR, but I reckon it's more likely a generic shirt. However, that's not to say no club ever used it- remember the inexplicable popularity of the Hummel halves of the mid-eighties (Villa, Southampton, Coventry et al). So, throwing it open to the floor...

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                        ursus arctos wrote:

                        I saw this shirt for sale in JD Sports in Liverpool in 1991. It was 70 quid.

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                          #13
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                          It's very difficult to be definitive, but I doubt that adidas pushed that template.

                          As this catalogue demonstrates, the more popular template from that tournament was the West German one, which was taken up by Cork City and (in knock off versions) Atalanta, Bologna and Pisa.

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                            Kowalski wrote:
                            Originally posted by ursus arctos

                            I saw this shirt for sale in JD Sports in Liverpool in 1991. It was 70 quid.
                            In 1991? Blimey. That must be about £200 in new money.

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                              #15
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                              £139 according to a historic price calculator I found.

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                                evilC wrote: Can you post a photo of it, 1974DDR?

                                Without one, I'd guess at a PSV Eindhoven 1988 away shirt:

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                                That is one lovely football shirt. Philips on the PSV shirt is one of the very few examples in football in which the sponsor’s logo itself is an integral part of the shirt's design, rather than being a superfluous irritant on the eye.

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                                  #17
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                                  Better with the badge, though

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                                    Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:
                                    Originally posted by evilC
                                    Can you post a photo of it, 1974DDR?

                                    Without one, I'd guess at a PSV Eindhoven 1988 away shirt:

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                                    That is one lovely football shirt. Philips on the PSV shirt is one of the very few examples in football in which the sponsor’s logo itself is an integral part of the shirt's design, rather than being a superfluous irritant on the eye.
                                    I can't look at that thing without flinching. It reminds me of the 1988 European Cup final.

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                                      #19
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                                      In which they had the badge, but not the sponsor:



                                      Benfica were also sponsorless.

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                                        #20
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                                        1995 was the first European Cup Final to feature sponsored shirts.

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                                          #21
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                                          Austria Vienna used that USSR adidas template.



                                          The first couple of European Cup group stages featured sponsor-less shirts

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                                            #22
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                                            Ausgezeichnet

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                                              #23
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                                              Such an exotic and continental thing to see for a 14 year old me, these keepers sat on the front row, with gloves on knees.

                                              In fact, in the above picture looks like the keeper on the left is also sporting a Reusch jersey.

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                                                #24
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                                                Kowalski wrote:
                                                You can easily tell who's the starting keeper. Pure alpha male.

                                                Body language suggests mid-season loan to Ried for the number two.

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                                                  #25
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                                                  Bizarre to see a team sponsored by a tobacco firm...

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