World Cup 2010 Jerseys: Spain

May 6th, 2010 | by: chris | View Comments

When playing with such flair, such panache, not to mention toting a European trophy in behind, rolling in style is mandatory. And style often means fresh, new, crisp.

Looks like the individualistic style will have to come from the football, then. Adidas has run out nearly identical kits for Spain – the home red and the black away – which mirror their “generic” line for the 2010 World Cup.

At least on the front. In the back it’s all party, all the time. Does this make the Spanish kit the World Cup shirt equivalent of the mullet? It just might.

Spain Home Shirt

Want one? Find your 2010 Spanish home shirt in our store.

The collar work and colors are different, but it’s clearly the same shirt without much attention to detail. And quite frankly, a nation like Spain deserves detail. Of course if you were to bring the various regions together into a fashionable, tributary compromise, you’d be up for some sort of lifetime peace mediation award, so maybe generic is all for the best.

But it’s very simple and very much cut from the adidas World Cup 2010 line. Not necessarily bad, but bland.

However, on the back you have La Furia Roja (Spanish nickname – The Red Fury) written in Gothic font across the upper collar. And if you didn’t know better, you’d think they were in an East Los Angeles gang. Adidas really dropped the ball in not plastering in giant letters across the abdomen in an arc.

Spain Away Shirt

Want one? Find your 2010 Spanish away shirt in our store.

It definitely looks good – I’ve always enjoyed the contrast of black and red, even if minimal – but it also bears a striking resemblance to the black away kits of Mexico and Germany, both by adidas. Not even trying to fool us with the color. The German away kit is, as Daryl put it, “black with a touch of red”. Sound familiar? Though the Spanish flag is quite apparent in the three adidas lines down the arms – red, yellow, red – and that’s a nice touch.

And then in the back it’s all party with a black-on-black tramp stamp in the lower lumbar portion, probably a butterfly, which really makes the kit.

Perhaps not a butterfly. It looks more like a third eye, maybe Xavi’s – the one he uses to see the passes only he can. (Any actual information welcome.)

It also has the same Gothic font across the top in R.F.E.F., or Real Federación Española de Fútbol – the Spanish football governing body. No secret messages there. Unless….

One thing easily agreed upon is their marketing – sending undercover players into the stores as salesmen. Every country should be doing this.

(And is it me, or does David Silva fit in seamlessly working the floor of a sporting goods store?)