World Cup 2010 Jerseys: Honduras

May 12th, 2010 | by: Daryl |

So far all the World Cup jerseys we’re reviewed have been Nike, adidas or Puma. So this Honduras jersey review is the first time we’re venturing outside of the big three, since there manufacturers are the good people from Joma.

If you’re not familiar with Joma, they’re actually a very well respected Spanish sports company, who also make some damn fine boots. Read on to see how they do with their one World Cup 2010 jersey.

Here’s how Joma explain their designs on the official website: “The design is full of symbolism, Joma joins the joy that the Honduran people respecting the national flag colors,” which you can see above.

To do this Joma have put together three jerseys. Home, away, and third. All of which are variations of blue and white. An idea I kind of like. Unless they play against a team that wears a predominantly blue and white jersey.

Honduras Home Shirt

honduras home

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It’s a bit plain maybe. But I sort of like the boldness of placing the badge slap bang in the middle. And from what I’ve seen, the squad number will go directly underneath the badge, filling the shirt out nicely.

One extra thing. According to Joma, there’s an inscription inside the jersey that reads: “Forward National Team Put Claw and Heart Enthusiasm and Determination.” Which probably sounds better in Spanish, grammatically speaking.

Honduras Away Shirt

honduras away

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This is my favourite of the three. Still with the crest in the middle, but with the strong blue and white stripes making it a lot more interesting than the home jersey.

Honduras Third Shirt

honduras third

Again, variation on a theme. But again, I like. I’m thinking of the design as “fake stripes”. You think it’s going to be stripes, but then it’s all the same colour. But again, I love the commitment to the blue. Even more so when it’s across all three jerseys.

That’s my take on Honduras’ World Cup jerseys. What do you think?

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James

It looks pretty good.
catracho

fyi- Hondurans were angry that the flag was placed vertically, instead of horizontally. Another complaint is that the “Joma” logo is larger than the Honduran logo. Not surprisingly, a big company screwed over the tiny country…I’m sure some members of the Honduran federation made out OK though.
FonzNY

perhaps it would have been more dissapointing not making it to south africa, but its hard to match how much joma crushed our hopes of having a nice shirt for our 2nd ever wc.

among the many complaints we hondurans have:
-the word JOMA is bigger than HONDURAS.
-the logo for joma is more prominent than ours.
-there is no beloved H
-there are however, random, slanted j’s on the sleeves. WTF? (Honduras is spelled with an H NOT a J.
-the fading line in the middle is about as contemporary as z cavaricci jeans.
-the logo has been altered and made more blah.
-the shirt fits a bit awkwardly.
-its about a 1000% downgrade from the shirt worn during qualifying that EVERYONE was happy with.
Pete

Think the slanted J is for Joma, not Jonduras mate…

I gotta say, I think your old shirt looks soooo budget it’s ridiculous (if this is indeed your old kit here http://media.photobucket.com/image/honduras%20football%20shirt%202010/footballer2008/honduras-09-10-joma-football-shirts.jpg ).

The H is ludicrous, Joma did you a favour making the shirt look contemporary for the World’s biggest stage. I’m not saying it’s beautiful, but it’s definitely better!
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thanks a lot..
Ebrahim

The H! Where’s the H?!! It would have given them some originality at least – not all shirts have to come off the same conveyor belt…
dick_el_repollero

Just a little bit of history in regards our colors: The one that is supposed to be our away outfit used to be the main uniform along with blue or sometimes white pants; however back in the early 80s, while preparing for the 1982 qualifiers, the all-white was adopted due to the fact that in Central America, the Blue is the predominant color also, in the Guatemalan, Salvadorian and Nicaraguan uniforms. I personally, always liked the blue striped shirt, because is more representative of our National Flag.

The legend, you talk about, its actually a line (lyrics) that belongs to official National Team song called “Adelante Seleccion” which came out originally during the first round of the WC1982 qualifiers.

So the translation will be:

“Forward National Team Put Claw and Heart Enthusiasm and Determination”

- “Adelante Seleccion, Pongan garra y corazon, entusiasmo y decision”
Miguel

Hi all, I’m from Portugal…

I also think that the Joma word is too big and along with the faded stripe makes the whole thing look a bit cheap.

I saw too the previous uniform, thanks to the previous poster. Globally it was better, though the big H to me reminds me more of an american baseball team.

I think the 5 stars of the national flag would look nice there instead.

Nice blog btw, let’s see the other jerseys reviews too.

M