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Atletico Madrid 08/09 Home - Away - GK Nike kits E-mail
Thursday, 26 June 2008

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Atletico madrid launched their new home, away and goalkeeper kits for the 08/09 season made by Nike.

The Club was founded on 9 October 1939. A previous club was originally founded on 26 April 1903 as Athletic Club de Madrid by three Basque students living in Madrid. The founders saw the new club as a branch of Athletic Bilbao. In 1904 they were joined by dissident members of Madrid FC. They began playing in blue and white, as did Athletic Bilbao, but by 1911 they were playing in their current colours. The reason the club changed colours is not known for certain.

However one theory is that red and white striped tops were the cheapest stripes to make because the same combination was used to make bed mattresses. The left over cloth was easily converted into football shirts. Although both Athletic Bilbao and Athletic Madrid started out with blue and white stripes, the discovery of a cheaper option probably persuaded them to change. The Madrid club did it first and they became known as los colchoneros—the mattress makers.

Other more plausible account of the reason to change colours is that both Athletic Bilbao and Athletic Madrid used to buy Blackburn Rovers F.C. blue and white kits in England. Once in 1911 Juanito Elorduy, former player and member of the board of Athletic Madrid, went to England to buy kits for both teams.

He did not find Blackburn Rovers F.C. kits and bought Southampton F.C. red and white ones instead. Athletic Bilbao adopted Southampton F.C. full kit with red and white shirt and black shorts, whereas Athletic Madrid adopted the red and white shirt but kept Blackburn Rovers F.C. blue shorts.

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DannyBoy   |2008-06-26
Another set of un-inspiring kits from Nike!
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Anonymous   |2008-06-27
away one can you say USA
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Anonymatous  - Their Kits   |2008-06-26
Like the keeper and home ones!
Away is disgusting!
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ryan   |2008-06-28
:eek how can you say away is disgusting
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Anonymatous   |2008-06-26
That colour of away shirt is too dark and ugly!
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roger   |2008-06-26
avatar I think this is a clean and simple design
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EVERTON     |2008-06-26
I LIKE IT COME ON YOU BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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KRAP   |2008-06-26
Same template as the United away shirt...
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Harun   |2008-06-26
avatar I like the home one. The GK-shirt is nothing new, almost every team has the same colour. Away one is OK, but nothing special.
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coys   |2008-06-26
they would be perfect for the usmnt
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LU3YtheWOLF   |2008-06-26
There home kits very rarely change since its hard to do something different when your Nike but they have a nice colour combination of red, white and blue and you cant go far wrong with that to be honest.

Clean design so therefore its a winner.
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mackem 4 life   |2008-06-26
:grin i love i its nice and stylish and very smart
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danwho   |2008-06-26
Home = 4/5
GK = 1/5
Away = 2/5
Overall =2/5


Home would have been 5/5 but for the naff sleeve cuff that disappears.

GK jersey is so-so in yellow but not a touch on the adidas green of Liverpool. Also that black collar slash would be better if it stayed on the collar and didn't fall off - Nike's latest innovation but it looks stupid.

Away is nothing spesh, colour OK, but puma do a much better vampire collar. Also the same annoying sleeve cuff disappearing trick occurs here too.

Strange that Nike have given Atletico their stripes but made Barca wear halves - normally footballing pecking order would have it the other way around (no disrespect to Atletico fans but you're not the bigger club, are you?)
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LU3YtheWOLF   |2008-06-26
Look who thinks he's a fashion guru mr danwho! lol.
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Anonymous   |2008-06-27
Great kits, KIA is just a naff looking plasticy sticker type sponsor, such a shame, ruins it!
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Rex Croatorum   |2008-07-02
avatar Home kit - nothing special, i personaly dont like the collar, away kit is nice, casual... All in all, nice shirts.
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Anonymous   |2008-08-22
Why do you always have to say that it's ugly these shirts are great and no comment you guys doesn't have any style
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