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18. Liam Scott,

What\'s the story with the French 3rd shirt? No Adidas branding? I guarantee that shirt wasn\'t on the plane with them when they departed France for Argentina. That was obviously case of s**t lads the home & away kit still clashes with the opposing team. Soloution send the kit man down to the local sports shop to buy 11 shirts that aren\'t whit or blue!!!


17. trish.....,

great kits, pity Rep of Ireland were not there at the time they had a beautiful green jersey with an amazing white trim, they would have looked spectacular at this world cup, only thing was they only able to kick the ball with their left legs and their right legs wouldn\'t work so it made it impossible for them to run they kept going around in circles, no wonder they didn\'t qualify..............

that\'s what i think anyway.


16. Paolo Granda,

I know Italy wore black shorts on one of their games in this world cup. The \'74, \'78, and \'82 world cups were the best in my book and the jerseys worn were the best too



15. Claudio Pasqualetti,

Love the Levi\'s Mexico kit but what does the C mean on the sleeve of the Poland kit?


14. Tom,

Agree with the comments already posted, 1978 world cup was the pinnacle of shirt design, kits nowadays (especially nike ones) are so crap, you would never hear such legendary kit stories such as the France/Kimberley FC one today, I just wish i had been born early enough to have seen this golden age.

13. Eugenio,

Comment #7 is very well informed, France had no third shirt. Those green and white shirts belonged to Kimberley FC, a very small team which plays the Mar del Plata City regional league. The bizarre or scandalous situation (a national team playing a World Cup match with borrowed shirts) had to do with colour clash and TV demands, but it would have been enough if only one of the teams changed to their second white kit. Well, both teams travelled from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata with white shirts and nothing else to replace them, so one of them had to wear the Kimberley FC shirts.
And about TV: nobody had a color TV in Argentina for the 1978 WC. We Argentinians watched all games in B/W, although ATC (the national broadcasting system) broadcasted in color for the first time for the rest of the world. It\'s great to live in the third world.
Well, I just discovered this site, and it\'s great. I really appreciate the football shirt culture of English people. You have always had the best designs. And I\'m very pleased because you put our shirt next to England\'s and Germany\'s. Great rivals, the same passion for football. And as we say here, you don\'t buy brazilian smoke. That\'s a pleasure, believe me. My mail for messages or whatever: rio7215hotmail.com.This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Bye



12. ma u,

is it possibal to put the iran shirt


11. Alexandre Pessoa - Rio de Janeir,

Wow, Germany wasn´t sponsored by Adidas in a WC? Amazing!
And the Brazil´s shirt has the Adidas logo in the right side.
Great job!


10. FSC,

Cruyff didn\'t play at the world cup 78 (you\'re probably confused with the 74 WC), but there were some other players at the WC 78 who didn\'t wear the three stripes on their holland kits (see the holland away photo)*For the World Cup of 1974 the Dutch national team were equipped with an Adidas sponsored outfit. The Dutch played with the three stripes on the sleeves, except for Johan Cruyff. Cruyff, who had a personal sponsor deal with Puma, felt not called to play with the three stripes of Adidas. He decided to wear a special manufactured two stripe version. Two of his team members, the Kerkhof brothers (who had also had a personal deal with Puma) followed his example. The two stripe version was produced by Adidas / Erima and worn at the World Cup 74 and 78.(cruyff 74)
Does anyone know more about this subject or adidas at the WC 78?



9. A.Kane,

one note about Holland: Everyone on the team wore the adidas three stripes on the sleeves except for Cruiff, who only had two. must have been a licensing situation.


8. Ajacied,

Realy interesting story. I agree this shirts are so much better than nowadays. Great work Azmi. My favourite mmm I think the Mexico away shirt.


7. professor chimp,
France didn\'t have a third kit. When they played Hungary in the final group match their blue shirts were deemed to clash with Hungary\'s red ones because the vast majority of TV sets in Argentina were black and white. France borrowed the green-and-white shirts from local team Kimberley FC. I agree that designs were never better than 1978 though.


6. Gervillian Swike,
I think I\'ve posted this before, but the World cup kits of 78 were the absolute zenith of football strip design, for me at least. Every single one of the kits above is an absolute cracker, a design classic; with the two Peru strips the absolute top of the pile. Top notch article this.


5. Ben,

The world without Nike is so nice



4. FSC,

Spain and Iran will be there soon. The Polish away kit on the photo has the home shorts to it. Probably because of a colour clash.


3. P#,

photo of a polish player in the away kit appears to have red shorts, and yet the picture has them in white...?


2. hakim,

excellent!! azmi, what about the spain kit? (they were there, rite?)

cheers


1. timfrancis,

levi\'s made the mexico kit ????

Here is the story (in spanish) of \"third kit\" of France... a nice story:
http://arogeraldes.blogspot.com/2007/04/camisetalandia.html
The green and white is the shirt of Mar del Plata\'s club Kimberley.
I will translate this story for english spoken friend.
Best regards from Buenos Aires
Pablo

Good trivia question about France\'s third shirt.
They didn\'t have one, but both they and the Hungarians were there at the ground with white shirts and nothing else. So the police searched some Argentinian second division outfit for non-white kits.

There was no sponsor for Italy?? Levis sponsoring a soccer team? Thats just amazing! The 70\'s is when the finest jerseys wore made... no doubt about it. Im not even gonna mention the classic trefoil...

I remember scotlands first two games agains peru and iran when they wore blue shorts with their blue tops and red socks i thought that strip was pretty cool

France were supposed to wear there home kit blue against hungary? wh wore red. no clash, except the game was to be broadcast to half the world and france had to borrow the kit off a local team

Saludos!
alguien habla español?
:dry:

I have a picture of a white jersey with light blue neck and a le coq logo. Anyone know what team this is?

When Football kits were football kits. Just wish all the Manufacturers would remake them. I always wanted the orange Holland kit. I was fairly certain that WGermany\'s wasn\'t adidas, but didn\'t know who it was - never heard of erima!
GREAT STUFF!!

What\'s the meaning of that letter \"C\" surrounding a heart in the Poland\'s World Cup 1978 kit?

Thanks.

no dork, italy had sponsor but the kit didn\'t show the sponsor

Interesting comments on the Green/ White jersey worn by France?, according to the official FIFA World Cup DVD, this jersey as the third jesey of Hungary who were the opponent\'s of France that day. It was decided at the stadium that the clash of colours meant one of the teams would have to wear a different kit, France had only one with them, as a result they had to wear Hungary\'s spare jersey\'s.

The deal with the Dutch jerseys having two (Puma) or three (Adidas) stripes on the sleeve started with Cruijff in 1974. By the time of the \'78 Finals, there were 2-3 additional Oranje Players who also had signed exclusively with Puma. This finally \"boiled\" over into the 1980 European Championships, were all Dutch Players sported the 3 stripes, but then put a piece of tape over the \"Trefoil\" that Adidas put on the right breast. The KNVB attempted to deal with this earlier during the 1978 Qualifying campaign (1976-77) by placing the KNVB Logo (Lion) on the right breast, where before and since, it sits on the left breast. Hope this helps, and I have literally \"thousands\" of photos of the Dutch Team from 1972-1986. bdrijkehotmail.com if you want copies.

Does anybody know what company manufactured the Italy shirts in 1978????

I'm not sure, but I guess that Ellesse was the sponsor of Italy on 1978 WC...
The Holland jersey had three lists, but some players removed one of those.... Cruijff did the same in 1974 WC, for example...
The Brazilians kits was made by Erima and Drastosa, but with adidas logo, always... Immediatly changed for Topper...
The Spain kit, for 1978, was Le Coq...

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