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?
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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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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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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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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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Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:Originally posted by evilC
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