Striker Fans Stay Calm

It's extremely understandable that after this weekend's strong showing against Red Bull New York, Striker fans around the globe are in mass hysteria, parading their hometown streets as if we'd won the FIFA Club World Cup by beating Barcelona 5-0.

Low and behold this find gem recently available on ebay. It's a match-worn, 1981 Elías Figueroa adidas Striker away jersey and it's up for sale for approximately $1,624.87! Yes, the price is true. Chile's best ever player and a member of FIFA's top 125 of all time played for the Strikers and his shirt is going for a butt load.

This may be an attempt to play off the popularity of the Chilean Miners, who brave souls as they were, escaped their living tombs in full hooligan style, waving Chilean flags and chanting, "Chi, Chi, Chi, Le, Le, Le".

Anybody wanna post a grand plus for this piece of history?

Jerseys? Can We Get a Peek?

So Hotshot is going around town promoting the Strikers in an adidas branded Striker jersey. Is this a sign to come? If so, I've just died and gone to heaven. Order me the entire team set.

But on a serious tip, when do we see uniforms, warm ups, etc? It's time to start the build up.

The Strikers are back! (please drop the Miami FC part)

Tout Puissant Mazembe fantasy kits

Full name: Tout Puissant Mazembe
City: Lubumbashi
League: Linafut (DR Congo)
Stadium: Stade Frederic Kibassa Maliba
Fouded: 1939
Shirt sponsor: MCK
Kit manufacturer: Adidas

So long time past since I've started to work on this team's kit, and don't had the time to finish it. Meanwhile TP Mazembe played at Fifa Club World Cup and finished second. I've made two variants for home kit, one with white shorts and socks, and a second with black shorts and socks.
The away kit is all black with white stripes, suitable for games vs teams wearing all white or light color kits.
The third kit is all white with black stripes.

Fenerbahce SK fantasy kits

Full name: Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü
City: Istanbul
League: Süper Lig (Turkey)
Stadium: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadyumu
Fouded: 1907
Shirt sponsor: Avea, Ülker, Turk Telekom
Kit manufacturer: Adidas

These kits for Fenerbahce where requested by Cueto. The home kit has yellow shirt with blue stripes, white shorts and white socks. The shade of blue is lighter than the one used by Fener in the last years.
This is also a version of the home kit, with blue shorts and socks.
The away kit is all white with yellow features and blue trims, numbers, logos and adidas three stripes. The set can be used also with blue shorts or socks.The third kit is dark blue, with blue trims and adidas stripes. The shirt has a watermark with three sets of horizontal stripes.

Copa Vagalume da Música kits

It's about the 3rd edition of the Cup Competition organized by Federação de Mockups. Unfortunately it's not about the 3rd place in this competition, I lost in the last 16 round. The competition had a theme based on a music competition from this site: http://www.vagalume.com.br/.
My team was Rock Nacional Classico (Brazilian Classic Rock). The only starting point was the crest, the design is based on it.

F.K. Partizan Beograd fantasy kits

Full name: Fudbalski Klub Partizan
City: Belgrade
League: Jelen Superliga
Stadium: Stadion FK Partizan
Fouded: 1945
Shirt sponsor: Renault
Kit manufacturer: adidas

It was a bit hard for me to make these kits, for the Red Stars's rival team, Partizan Beograd. But as Serbian I will be their fan in the Champions League games. Partizan return to adidas after a long time with different brands, some unknown some big (Nike, Puma, Kappa). The design is classic black and white stripes on both side of the shirt, a bit retro style. The three stripes on the shirt are only on the sides. The shorts and the socks are white with black panels and white three stripes.
The away kit is all black with white three stripes all over (less on the sleeves). Also the shirt has white pinstripes.

Real Madrid fantasy kits

Full name: Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
City: Madrid
League: La Liga
Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
Fouded: 1902
Shirt sponsor: bwin.com
Kit manufacturer: adidas

These designs are made for my brother, a big Real Madrid fan. The design is based on the original Real Madrid kit, with an oblique stripe. Here the stripe is coloured only in the upper part, on the left shoulder. The adidas three stripes are white as the kit and can be seen only in the parts where intersect the dark blue trims and the oblique stripe.
The away kit is dark blue with golden three stripes on the sides of the shirt, shorts and socks. The three stripes on the sleeves are in the same colour as the shirt. The oblique stripe is darker shade of blue than the main colour, also the trims.The third kit for Real is not so necesary, and often clashes with the away kit (regarding the colours, all dark coloured kit), therefore is presented and used as European kit. I choosed a lighter shade of purple for the shirt and darker shade for shorts and socks and trims aswell. The three stripes are white.

Copa Do Mundo de Mockups kits

With great joy I present my participation to Copa Do Mundo de Mockups, organised by a kits design comunity called Mockups de Camisas de Futebol.
Here is the link for the blog were the competition was hosted: http://copademockups.blogspot.com/2010/07/final-copa-do-mundo-de-mockups.html
The theme of the competition was the World Cup 2010, and I had the task to make the home and away kit for Italy.
The design is the transposition of this one made for the World Cup project . The presentation was mandatory on the template used by all the 32 participants.
http://footballkitsdesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/italy-world-cup-2010-fantasy-kits.html
The competition was based on the real World Cup game style, 8 groups with 4 teams each. In every group the teams are played against each other, and the votes of the 32 participants represented the final score for every game. After the group stage followed the las of 16, the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. After the semi-finals were played, the two finalist had the task to made the kits for one of the two real finalist (Spain and Netherlands), the same for third place play-off game (Uruguay and Germany). Therefore I made the designs for Spain.
This is a version for the away kit that was not posted, I was not sure wich of the two away kit to chose.
This is the original design on wich is based the one used in the Final.
http://footballkitsdesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/spain-world-cup-2010-fantasy-kits.html
And here is the stamp wich shows that I won the competition.
It was an interesting competition with lots of good designs. I want to thank to the organizers and to the competitors to for choosing my designs as the winner. Also about this competition and other news and information about kits designs you can read (if you understand Portuguese) here:
http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=44001

South Africa World Cup 2010 fantasy kits

Name: South Africa
Federation: South African Football Association
Confederation: CAF (Africa)
Founded: 1991
Kit manufacturer: adidas

Finaly the last team for the World Cup project, the South African team. The design is based on the Y shape (present on the South African flag). The three stripes are in the Y shape are made from different fabric (more perforated) and are visible on the green sleeves. The V neck and the trims are black, also the name, numbers and the adidas logo. The short are green with three yellow stripes on the back and black trims also on the back. The soks are yellow with green turnovers.
The away kit is opposite to the home one, green-yellow-green, with some differences, the sleeves are in the same colour as the shirt and the turnovers on the socks. The black parts are same as on the home shirt.

Al Ahly fantasy kits

Full name: Al Ahly
City: Cairo
League: Egyptian Premier League
Stadium: Cairo Stadium
Fouded: 1907
Shirt sponsor: Vodafone, Chevrolet, Egyptair, Port Ghalib
Kit manufacturer: adidas

As I promised earlier now I post the Al Ahly kits made for the Mockups Competition. The design is based on the three bands on the sides of the shirt and on the shoulders. The feature is present on the short and on the back of the socks. The home kit is red-white-red. On the front of the shirt is a watermark with the eagle from the crest.
The away kit is white-black-white, but can be used also with white short.
The third kit is all blue with white features.

Hungary (Magyarország) fantasy kits

Name: Hungary (Magyarország)
Federation: Hungarian Football Federation (Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség - MLSZ)
Confederation: UEFA (Europa)
Founded: 1901
Kit manufacturer: Adidas

The Hungarian and Romanian designs are made on the same base template, only few differences between them. The home kit has the traditional Hungarian colours: red shirt, white short and green socks. The classic three stripes are only on the socks, while on shirt and short the stripes are more distant.
The away kit is opposite to the home one, white shirt and socks, red short. The short can be used on the home kit as change variant.
The more often used version of the away kit is all white.

Romania fantasy kits

Name: Romania
Federation: Romanian Football Federation (Federaţia Română de Fotbal - FRF)
Confederation: UEFA (Europa)
Founded: 1909
Kit manufacturer: Adidas

This is the design for my home country Romania. I re-used the yellow and blue colours for the home kit, I disagree with the change of colour required by the main sponsor of the national team in red. Instead of all yellow kit made the short and the socks blue with yellow three stripes. The red colour is present on the shirt (the trims, numbers and name) and on the socks (on the turnovers). Also the shade of red is a bit darker than the usual.
The away kit is all red with yellow trims and stripes, name and numbers. The blue is present only on the Romanian crest.

Hamburger SV fantasy kits

Full name: Hamburger Sport-Verein e. V.
City: Hamburg
League: Bundesliga
Stadium: HSH Nordbank Arena
Fouded: 1887
Shirt sponsor: Fly Emirates
Kit manufacturer: adidas

Long time since I made the first HSV sketch, but never was satisfied with the design. Now I made one that I think suit Hamburger SV. The template was used also to make the Al Ahly kits for the Mock-ups Competition (will post it soon). The home kit has the traditional colour scheme, white shirt with red stripes and trims, red short and blue socks with black and white turnovers. This last feature is present on all versions (for socks).
An all white version for the home kit, used for games vs teams wearing dark coloured kits.
HSV uses lots of colour combinations for the second choice kit, here I chosed two versions, one with red shirt, white short and socks, and the second red shirt and socks and black short.
This away version can be used vs teams wearing all white kits.
The third kit is blue and black with white stripes all over. Suitable for games vs teams wearing red and white shirt.

Japan World Cup 2010 fantasy kits

Name: Japan
Federation: Japan Football Association
Confederation: AFC (Asia)
Founded: 1921
Kit manufacturer: adidas

This template was made for Paraguay and Japan from the start. Because this project has so many teams (32) and so little time to do, from the start I tried to group teams and use a template for two or three teams, with some changes between them. The basic design follows the newest Japan kit with the red band on the blue shirt. Here the position is different, and is different incorporated in the design. The home kit is blue-white-blue, standard for Japan. On the shirt are three groups of three stripes (different fabric and more perforated), also on the sleeves.
On the socks also the three stripes are different shade of blue.
The away kit is opposite to the home one, White-blue-white, the difference is the blue parts on the shirt.

Paraguay World Cup 2010 fantasy kits

Name: Paraguay
Federation: Asociación Paraguaya de Futbol (Paraguayan Football Confederation)
Confederation:CONMEBOL (South America)
Founded: 1906
Kit manufacturer: adidas

One of the last five teams remained to do is Paraguay. They have similar colour scheme with Atletico Madrid, made earlier, but here is a different approach, other base template. The kit has red and white stipes, red collar and trims. The numbers and name are blue. The short and the socks are blue with a red band, containg three white stripes.
The away kit is all white with red three stripes all over. The name and numbers are blue.

Spain World Cup 2010 fantasy kits

Name: Spain
Federation: Royal Spanish Football Federation
Confederation: UEFA (Europe)
Founded: 1909
Kit manufacturer: adidas

With this team a manage to do half of my project. The 16th team is Spain. Kind of retro design, with the return of the black socks. The shirt is red with three yellow horizontal stripes on the left side and on the lower part of the sleeves. The yellow stripes are made each from other three stripes. This feature is present on the blue short and on the socks also.
A variant of the home kit with blue socks, as they wear some years ago.
The away kit has blue shirt with red trims on sleeves and yellow stripes. The short and socks can be white or blue.
An all blue version for second choice (away games).