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New Germany away 08/09 Adidas kit launched E-mail
Friday, 08 February 2008

new germany Adidas away kit euro 2008 launched

This is the new official Germany away football kit for the 08/09 season and euro 2008 made by Adidas. Pictures of the shirt were leaked back in December 2007 and caused some debate because its not green.. The kit is based on a kit used 100 years ago in 1908.

The away shirt colour has changed several times. Historically, green shirt with white shorts is the most often used alternative colour combination, derived from the DFB colours (and the ones of a playing field). Other colours such as grey and black have also been used.

This is the new official Germany away football kit for the 08/09 season and euro 2008 made by Adidas.

The last change, from black to red, came in November 2004 on the request of Klinsmann, citing that teams in red are statistically more successful, and perceived as more intimidating. He hoped to use the red away shirt as first choice for the 2006 World Cup despite less than impressive results when playing in these colours (for example, the 1-4 loss in Italy), but eventually Germany played in its traditional colours.

The green away jersey comes from the fact that the DFB's (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) official colour is green yet a very common myth associated with Germany's use of a green-coloured away jersey is in recognition of the fact that Ireland were supposedly the first nation to play Germany in a friendly game after World War II. This is false. Their first match after WWII was in fact against the Swiss.

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Anonymous   |2008-02-08
yuck. go back to green.
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Zahirfg   |2008-02-08
the crap is the shoulder logo... no the centered one... and... where the number it's going to be???
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CM   |2008-02-09
Switzerland was our first opponent after World War II, that's correct. But as far as I know the Irish were the first ones to invite our national team to their country after the war, which meant a lot to us. So I still think this is the real reason why we used to have a green kit.


This kit is crappy by the way. Hopefully we won't use it a lot.
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Sean   |2008-02-09
Cm you are 100% dead on. while the rest of the world ignored the Germans we forgave. Both of us agree on the one thing though, feck england!
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Paul  - Cowards   |2008-06-23
"Feck England"
Cowardly terroist fecker
England has no problem with Germany, but you Irish live in the 1800's
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alex   |2008-02-09
that is very nice better than the last germany away kit.
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django   |2008-02-09
gay kit for german gaylords
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FDV   |2008-02-09
Even if I like this shirt,I hope Germany will turn back to green away kit.
Also because Red-Black-White looks like nazi..
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PH   |2008-02-09
But its red-black-gold
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CM   |2008-02-09
oh my god FDV, please don't bring on the Nazi thing again only because of the colors. If you want to offend us or don't like Germany at all, say it. But insulting us because of some colors which you associate with Nazis is ridiculous. Our flag has been black, red and gold long time before the Nazi time by the way.
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FDV   |2008-02-09
1st You are right is gold not white..

2nd If you feel offended only because you hear the word ''nazi'' is your own problem.I don't hate Germany at all.
I only said that red black and white remember me German flag in nazi time,it is not a judgement on German people.It was just an opinion.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-09
Germany away colours are green and white. Anything else is unacceptable. Football is founded on tradition and without it it is diminished. It would make an interesting Birminghma City away kit, but for one of the powerhouses of world football it is appalling.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-09
I don't like it, the only thing I disapproved about the Klinsman/Löw era is the away shirt, whether we like it or not, Germany's away color has traditionally been green.
I would have liked it to be black, like the away shirt for Euro 2004, but unfortunately whenever other people see Germans in black it seems to recall the SS uniforms, still, black has always been Germany's national color, just as blue is for France, regardless of the nazi past.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-09
Why can't we just see sport as sport and stop associating it with politics? How damn stupid are people who compare some colored shirts to nazi uniforms anyway? No one would be reminded of SS uniforms when he sees Portugal playing in black, no one thinks of nazis when Egypt is playing in red/black. Guys, we don't live in 1940 anymore.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
Well, you say that but I'm old enough to remember Coventry City try to dominate the nation in their brown shirts. Not a pretty sight, and if it wasn't for the fact everyone defeated them they'd still be lording it over us even now.

More seriously, history is important and to recall the sights, sounds and even styles of terrible times may prevent us from repeating them.

My desire to never see Germany in black shirts on the playing field is only because their colours are (or should be) white at home and green away. Nothing to do with politics, everything to do with another, but glorious, part of German history.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
It wouldn't have surprised anyone that Ireland may have been the first team to play Germany after WWII.

They did all they could to help them during it... "to be sure".

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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
why not talk about football and football shirts?

Same ridiculous thing as the Inter Milan Crusader Thing.

Some people have too much time, not enough friends, not enough joy and fun and are frustrated. So they search for something to bother the others.

German colours in Emperor / Kaiser Times:

Black-white-red.

German away shirt colours(for 40 years) because of the DFB colors. It has nothing to do with an ireland Game. Thats wrong. The DFB was founded in Leipzig and the colors of the DFB are Green white!!!!

The idea to choose red was from the Klinsmann era. It was meant to represent an agressive style of football.But apart from that it was because the green white shirts didn´t sell well. Nowadays loads of people want the back, but the red ones sell ´bout 3-4 times better, than the greens(ugly)did.

In the current football shirt scene you´ll hardly find green. Just because it does not match the interests of the merchandising world. Even Clubs like Bremen, Möchnegladbach reduce their green to make it attractive.

The current one was a mixture of the 1908 shirt(the middle part/block) and the old red-black one. Cos the red one, which we were wearing in Wembley on 22nd Aug. was a massive top seller.

It has nothing to do with 3rd Reich or whatever. Its our current national colors. Black-red-Gold. These Colors do represent the Democratic and non-nationalistic,non-jingoistic germany, and these colors (an now you learn something) were disliked and forbidden by the naz.is!! The colors of Nowadays Germany are in total contrast to the old, nationlistic Kaiser-Führer Time.

Please, do recognise and appreciate, that 99,9% of the Germans, living now,a re democrats, do not hail Kaiser nor Füh.rer. We are aware of our history but found a new identity and are proud and normal people. If English or Americans in their 20s always tunr back to this certain era, more than 60 years ago it is maybe cos they are fascinated by it.

Thx
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FDV   |2008-02-10
Ok...stop talking about nazi,emperialiasm,kaiser ..
I've only expressed one of the reason why Idon't like this shirt,and I didn't mean to accuse German person to want a simil-nazi kit or something like this.

It was just an impression,but nothing offensive vs Germans,I was only talking about the shirt.
I agree red shirt is more marketable than green one,and this is the real reason why I don't like it.
I've got no problem with past!

And more,I really don't think that werder bremen riduced the green in his shirts...Home kit is totally green..
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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
"Some people have too much time, not enough friends, not enough joy and fun and are frustrated. So they search for something to bother the others." - says the guy with the longest post here!

Green doesn't sell so red takes its place? So now Nike, Adidas and the rest run football and not the clubs and national bodies? That's a football I want no part of. To throw away tradition for some scum sucking designer sports label? No thanks. If some clubs have ditched their colours to sell more shirts they deserve nothing but our disgust. As for green doesn't sell on shirts shall I tell Celtic or will you? As for the team you mentioned Borussia Monchengladbach, they currently have an away kit of... green.

Maybe some will only be happy when everyone wears red at home and white away. Boring, but hey, who cares, the shirts sell!
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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
"The idea to choose red was from the Klinsmann era. It was meant to represent an aggressive style of football. But apart from that it was because the green white shirts didn´t sell well."

I think you only need the second sentence there...
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Gardenz   |2008-02-10
I like the red one more than the old green one. But nevertheless I admit that the shirt from 2006 looked weight better than THIS.
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Anonymous  - re:   |2008-02-10
Anonymous wrote:

Green doesn't sell so red takes its place? So now Nike, Adidas and the rest run football and not the clubs and national bodies? That's a football I want no part of. To throw away tradition for some scum sucking designer sports label? No thanks.


Taking red instead of green was not adidas' choice but the DFB's (or Klinsmann's). The reasons why have been explained above.

By the way, why are all of you talking about tradition all the time? Tradition always started as something new, so why not start a new tradition?
And by the way: The german away kits have been red during the 1920s already which means our red kits have a much longer tradition than the green ones.

Honestly, there are some bloody stupid arguments in here.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
Like people saying that tradition doesn't matter and then using it as an argument you mean?

I'll start a new tradition> How about those involved in the game stop wringing every last drop of blood from it?

Red, green, black, pink, wear what you like. When national teams carry sponsors on their shirts I suppose that will be a brave new world too. Sooner or later the game will eat itself and some of our greatest clubs will go to the wall while trying to outspend each other in a ludicrous arms race for better players, bigger stadia, higher ticket prices, larger TV deals. Whatever next? A league saying it wants to play its games overseas? Oh, hold on a minute...

And all the time the veneer of the beautiful game is slowly chipped away in the name of progress, but in reality driven by marketing men for marketing men.
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Anonymous   |2008-02-10
Are we still talking about a football jersey?
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Anonymous   |2008-02-13
They changed to red because of the aggressive style, no one knew they would sell that good. On the other hand, german football association denied the biggest shirt-contract (an nike-offer - 200 mio. EUR more than adidas) just to stay with adidas-"tradition" ...

this should include an option to switch back, hate those red shirts..
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CM   |2008-02-14
not quite right. The aggressive attitude of red was the official reason for the color change, but in fact they did of yourse know that red shirts would sell a lot better thatn green ones.
Also, they actually wanted to switch to Nike. But the DFB had told adidas by word-of-mouth that they want to extend the partnership before Nike made that offer, and a german court decided that what the DFB said was legally binding.
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one opinion   |2008-02-17
If Germany's national colour is black, then I think the away shirt should be black, with white shorts and black socks.

The goalkeeper's shirts could then be green for home and red or yellow for away.
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Anonymous   |2008-03-01
they should play naked and show the world our "pickelhauben" made of meat.



My wife said, its nice looking from the fashion point of view. Thats at least something. tradition vs. fashion

In a few years they bring back green white and sell it as: back to the successfull roots of german football. as long as we, the people, eat it and buy it its fine.

I´ll get one though I am english
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its me   |2008-03-13
I think we should go back to BLACK jerseys and WHITE pants like we had them back in 2004. those black jerseys also had a bit red in it -> super stylish! but NO, we just had to turn to red for no reason and now our away is almost completely red. well done, now we are just like the others, next step would be to remove the black pants off the home kit and make it all white. all white home and all red away, now THAT would be something SO new... -.-
fuck adidas, they should have signed with nike, i say that despite im german..
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me also   |2008-04-14
ok... you've pointed out some things that I totally agree on.

you know it's Klinsmann's idea for the totally red away shirt.

Black for home shirts would look super cool, but hey, this white one is so plain, and looks so random.

I wouldn't want them to sign the contract with nike... I prefer adidas, and you know they will never do that because adidas is german, and like the US national team, their's is with nike.
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Ciro   |2008-04-14
Black,white,red aren´t nazi colors,German Reich colors exists,much longer before nazis come on!!!
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stoke city potter  - Germa esc   |2008-05-05
Very rich and Baverian, pure Germanism. suits
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Anonymous   |2008-06-02
Schwarz,Rot und Weiss ist Immer 2003,2004 Black was perfekt Adidas do this again For Deutschland.. Adidas+DFB Deutschlands Regel
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Anonymous   |2008-06-09
FDV douche bag! learn to speak English first, before insulting anyone
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Anonymous   |2008-06-25
haver ever won a war
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Anonymous   |2008-09-26
everyone needs to chill.. come on ireland!!!!
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