Colo Colo is a Chilean football team who have never been relegated from the top division. They are the most successful side having won 29 Chilean titles. I have to say that their badge is one of the best out there.
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
River Plate Home 2012
River Plate have always been one of the best clubs in Argentinian football but in 2011 troubles started occurring. Managers left and debt troubles piled up and surprisingly River Plate managed to get relegated from the top division. In English football this would be like Arsenal getting relegated or something like that. Although this season they have won the second division and come straight back up again.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Birmingham Home 2010
I don't support Birmingham City but I've always liked Nikola Zigic for some reason. I think it's because he's like 6ft 8 and an absolute beast in the air on FIFA. Real life not so much. Birmingham City also have Nathan Redmond who I like so I thought I'll get this shirt as I saw it on eBay. It can be useful for when I go and play football down the local field pretending I am Zigic and towering over everyone to head the ball into the back of the net.
Monday, 15 April 2013
Denmark Home 2012
First international: Denmark 17-1 France (1908)
Biggest win: Denmark 17-1 France (1908)
Biggest loss: Germany 8-0 Denmark (1937)
Top scorer: Jon Dahl Tomasson (52 goals)
Most caps: Peter Schmeichel (129 caps)
Star player: Christian Eriksen (Ajax)
Denmark's biggest achievement in world football was when they won the 1992 European Championships despite not qualifying for the tournament in the first place. They finished 2nd in their qualifying group behind Yugoslavia but problems with Yugoslavia caused them to pull out and allow the Danes to go into the tournament. Most of the Danish players were already settling down for their summer holidays and Michael Laudrup declined to play because he believed they had no chance of getting anywhere in the tournament. Much to his surprise, the Danes managed to win the tournament beating Germany 2-0 in the final.
For more on the team go to this link
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Belize Home 2013
Flag of Belize
First international: El Salvador 3-0 Belize (1995)
Biggest win: Belize 7-1 Nicaragua (2002)
Biggest loss: Mexico 7-0 Belize (2008)
Most capped: Elroy Smith (16 caps)
Top scorer: Deon McCaulay (8 goals)
Star player: Deon McCaulay (Deportes Savio)
Belize according to the rankings are the worst central American side. They only played their first international in 1995 which was 15 years after gaining independence from the United Kingdom. They've achieved an all time high FIFA ranking of 134.
Barcelona Away 1996
I believe this shirt is from around the mid 90s but I am not sure of the official year. It may be a third kit and not away to.
The shirt was a gift from someone I follow on Twitter and it is always nice to receive free shirts so many thanks to him for letting me have this.
Friday, 15 March 2013
Belgium Away 2012
Flag of Belgium
First international: Belgium 3-3 France (1904)
Biggest win: Belgium 9-0 Zambia (1994)
Biggest loss: England 11-2 Belgium (1909)
Most capped: Jan Ceulemans (96 caps)
Top scorer: Bernard Voorhoof (30 goals)
Star player: Vincent Kompany (Man City)
Belgium qualified for 6 world cups between 1982 and 2002 and have qualified for 11 in total. Belgium were famously knocked out by England in the 1990 world cup thanks to a volley from David Platt. They reached the knockout stage in 5 of those 6 tournament but since then they have relatively under performed by not qualifying for a major tournament since 2002. Belgium currently have a very good squad on paper and I would expect them to qualify for Brazil 2014. They have players such as Fellaini, Vermealen, Vertonghen, Kompany, Benteke, Hazard, Mirallas, Defour, Witsel, Courtois, De Bruyne, Lukaku and Mignolet who have all done well recently. With these players in the squad I would expect them to qualify for the next world cup with that squad. They currently sit top of their qualifying group after 4 games.
Seattle Sounders Home 2010
Seattle Sounds are a team that currently play in the MLS. But you don't need to know about them. What you need to view is Djimi Traore's volleyed goal for them which was an absolute beast so here you go.
Andorra Home 2011
Flag of Andorra
First international: Andorra 1-6 Estonia (1996)
Biggest win: Andorra 2-0 Belarus (2000)
Biggest loss: Czech Republic 8-1 Andorra (2005)
Most capped: Oscar Sonejee (90 caps)
Top scorer: Ildefons Lima (7 goals)
Star player: Ildefons Lima (FC Andorra)
This football shirt was supposedly matchworn in an under 21 game against some team. It's a nice rare shirt for one of the smallest European nations.
Andorra's top scorer Ildefons Lima is actually a defender which makes it slightly weirder when you think he is the top scorer as I doubt there are many defenders out there that are top scorer for their country. In their history they have only ever won one competitive match which was a 1-0 win over Macedonia in a world cup qualifier. England recently played them and beat them 6-0 at Wembley which I did go to and I have to say Andorra were not a very good side but they are only a small country sandwhiched between France and Spain with an estimated population of 85,000 so what can you expect from them really?
I also have an Andorran national team jacket as well which you can see here
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Gremio Home 2001
Gremio is one of the top teams in the Brazilian league. They famously are the team that the legendary Ronaldinho and Liverpool's Lucas Leiva started their careers at.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Basque Home 2011
Flag of the Basque region
Basque is a region in Spain. The Basque country team class as a regional football team which is only allowed to play friendly matches. These may be against other Spanish regions or FIFA countries themselves. Most of the Basque players are formed from Real Sociedad and Atletico Bilbao players but Xabi Alonso also plays for the team as well.
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