Tottenham Hotspur announce Under Armour Kit Deal
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Under Armour, the U.S.-based leader in performance apparel, footwear, and accessories, announced today a global partnership agreement and technical sponsorship worth up to £50million.
The five-year collaboration is Under Armour’s first kit supply agreement with a Barclays Premier League team and represents the Brand’s largest European team sponsorship.
Beginning with the 2012/2013 season, Under Armour will provide Tottenham Hotspur with performance apparel, including training wear and playing kit for the Club’s First and Academy teams, together with replica product for the Club’s supporters around the world.
Founded in 1996 by current President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Kevin Plank, Under Armour is the originator of performance apparel - gear engineered to keep athletes dry and light throughout the course of a game, practice or workout. Recognised as the fastest growing performance brand in the United States, Under Armour has an unrivalled reputation for innovation with every product designed to improve athlete performance.
Daniel Levy, Tottenham Hotspur Chairman, said: "We are delighted that Under Armour will become our new technical partner from 2012 onwards. They are an extremely ambitious brand with global aspirations, making them ideal partners for Tottenham Hotspur.”
Under Armour CEO and Founder, Kevin Plank, added: “This is a highly significant and exciting partnership for Under Armour. Aligning with an elite organization like Tottenham Hotspur demonstrates our deep commitment to growing the Under Armour brand in the UK and to showcasing our apparel and footwear on the world’s most prestigious athletic stages.”
While this marks Under Armour’s first Barclays Premier League team kit supply agreement, select players continue to wear Under Armour boots during Barclays Premier League matches. In addition to Tottenham Hotspur, Under Armour’s European athletic partners include Bundesliga side Hannover 96 and the Welsh Rugby Union.
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I cannot wait until the new kits were presented
'The five-year collaboration is Under Armour’s first kit supply agreement with a Barclays Premier League team and represents the Brand’s largest European team sponsorship.'
ARIS FC are sponsored by UA and are the Brand’s largest European team sponsorship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piPrkoQFVqo
Spurs are bigger than Aris I would guess.
Gutted
well you lads get to inherit Americas football wear......that is super unlucky....
If the designs are good than thats great but youve just got to face that Americans are crap at making football kits.
lol thats a good laugh, you want to make this a pissing contest? the english are the most self-centered of them all if its not english, its not good! and nike has never made a good football kit?
good call that americans dont know who Tottenham are, cause clearly myself and the other americans on this site thought we were looking at ice hockey teams, thanks for the heads up
anywho this is a major coup for UA and I wouldn't doubt that they paid a pretty penny to secure the rights of an EPL team.
2: I hate Nike (and they're from the US)
Thanks
the point being that you're a douche troll?
I think Under Armour has good designs and in the Bundesliga for Hannover 96 they had designed wonderful kits like that:
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/hannover-96-under-armour-2010-2011-kits.html or these kits:
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/09/10-kits/hannover-96-under-armour-2009-2010-kits.html
and i think Puma hat really bad designs in the recent years, so let's wait until the shirts will be presented.
Not in Champions League, hahahaha
Arsenal looked pretty good against Barca today.
Oh, yes, 0 attempts on target, 0 attempts off target, 32% ball possession... fantastic performance.
Were they a much improved side from the mauling they got last year? Yes. Are they within touching distance? Not even by a mile.
However, your team got handed a censoreding lifeline via an own goal to tie up the score on aggregate, and had they kept 11 men behind the ball (whoever says Wenger is above parking the bus and won't resort to it, should be shot - they were so deep they could have all been inside the 6 yard box and it wouldn't have changed their base positioning), they could have won on away goals.
Secondly, stop your censoreding. Refs have bad games too. Other teams have been screwed over by absurd referring errors or mistakes - it's quite common, so stop complaining about how a weak yellow card got RVP kicked off. Shit happens. You think Arsenal got it bad? Try talking to Chelsea fans who saw the 09 Semi at Stamford Bridge! THAT is called getting screwed by a referee. What happened to Arsenal was nothing in comparison (I don't support either club, for the record), absolutely nothing.
Stop complaining. Arsenal just weren't good enough. Sometimes you've got to beat the referee as well as the opposing team, and Arsenal had every censoreding chance they could have ever asked for to do so, and they didn't. Don't go blaming the referee. Was it a bad yellow? Yes. Was RVP already in the book? Yes. Do the FIFA laws of the game dictate that kicking the ball out of play after the head official has blown their whistle is a offense that can and should be punishable by a yellow card? Yes.
Here's all you need to know. 90 minutes played. 0 shots. Attacking football my ass. Arsenal were embarrassing today regardless of the ref.
God some Arsenal fans can be so one-sided.
On another note, I just love how if Barcelona had played all the football and lost that somehow would have been a tragedy, but when Arsenal play all the football and lose or draw to lesser teams like Birmingham City then that's us getting our just desserts for being a "weak" team. Wonderfully consistent, yet again. Barcelona are a club that is financed by huge, unsustainable debt. Barcelona are a club with whinging, cheating, no class players and staff (see sprinklers on Mourinho last season and ball boys against Arsenal this year). Barcelona are a club backed by an unflinchingly biased media echochamber in the Catalan press. FFS they're so bad I'm actually inclined to root for Real Madrid, and I hate those bunch of fascists more than I can put into words.
they got out-shot, out-possessed and outclassed.
end of story.
stop trying to justify it, you got beaten.
instead of complaining about how it was everyone elses fault. 56 minutes in you were still getting it handed to you, but i hear you making the claim that the ref "blew the game". here's a fun fact: up until the 56th minute, you still didn't have a shot. not even on net in general.
last, but certainly not least, you may want to pay attention this one sweetheart..
DON'T COME INTO A SPURS THREAD LOOKING FOR A FIGHT!!
you came in here with the intention of making a snide arsenal remark, and you ended up looking like a complete ass when someone fired back at you. don't come into a thread thinking you're going to start a fight and then get upset when someone points out the obvious..
you're only embarrassing your club and yourself with that kinda behaviour.
I'll guarantee this though: 1) if Spurs run into Barca, the won't give them nearly the games that Arsenal did (which is why 'Arry came out today and said they're praying not to get Barca). 2) If Barca-Spurs and Arsenal-Milan had been the Round of 16 pairings, it would have been you going out and us moving on, so don't talk so much shit based on a random draw. 3) the only reason Spurs are talking so much shit about the Champions League this year is because they know they won't get the opportunity to play in it for another 50 years. Start qualifying for it for 15 years straight, and it becomes less of a big deal year to year.
ohhhhh.. THAT'S why you lost!
it wasn't the ref. or the fact that you were outshot. or outpossessed. or outpassed. it was because you didn't score as many goals as barca!! thanks for clarifying that for me.
if you wanna keep beating your chest about the ref spoiling the contest try to mention diaby killing messi right under the refs nose in the box in the 33rd. koscielny getting a second yellow when he took down pedro resulting in the penalty. or would you rather call the officiating into question when you feel it only serves your case?
i'm not talking shit so much as i'm saying "stop complaining" and/or "don't complain in a spurs thread". you won a game against barca which i wholeheartedly applaud, but you lost on aggro. instead of holding your head up you're going off about how unfair everything is and how much everyone else sucks. you're talking in hypotheticals about how if you'd had played a different team, or if you'd had all of the calls go your way, then things would've been different; but that's not how it played out and flaming a spurs thread won't change that.
and the reason spurs fans are "talking so much shit" about the champions league is because we're happy that we've made it to the round of 8 on our first champions league run. wanna stop hearing spurs fans talking shit? don't hang out in threads about the club lol.
and lastly, yes, qualifying for the champions league 15 years in a row is a great accomplishment. i hope your club can reach that accomplishment one day.
now how bout we ignore each other until we go away?
FIFA's Laws of the Game state that a deliberate act of ignoring the referee's whistle is punishable by a yellow card. By kicking the ball out of play (and into Row Z, no less), AFTER the referee blew his whistle, RVP was rightly given a yellow card. The referee was simply following the bylaws of the game.
Stunning or not, it's in the rules.
He also didn't kick the ball into row Z either. He kicked a low shot that went a few feet wide right along the ground. The ball boys could have thrown Valdez a new ball and restarted play in seconds. No time was wasted. It's all such a load of crap. We got jobbed. Everybody admits it. You wouldn't even be arguing if you weren't a Spurs supporter.
For god's sake, get over it. How do you excuse your results against Birmingham and Manchester United? Were you screwed by officials there or was is just defensive failings? Get the tinted glasses off and realise FCB beat you, games last 90 minutes, no less than that.
The fact is your supposed star player thought he was playing for FCB for a second and played in a wonderful backheel for the first goal.
RVP's reaction to kicking the ball away was not that of an innocent man. Did he look like a man who had blown his side's only clear chance through on Valdes, he had time so why not use his stronger left foot, and he also had a grin on his mouth after the shot, which tells me that he knew he was just taking a pop at goal regardless of the whistle going.
The above post is correct, the ref cannot be blamed for following the rules, simply because it doesnt happen in your domestic league doesnt mean it cannot happen in the CL, I would say refs are tighter on the rules there as it refelcts on them getting future games in the competition.
If your manager stopped being tight on the spending and bought an efficient centre half and goalkeeper then you may fare better. For the moment FCB are ahead of you, they dominated you and would have won if RVP had been on the park regardless.
Like 'a realist' I too neither support FCB or Arsenal, I am a Napoli fan, however FCB were far better than you.
What I do know is that the kits will most likely be very comfortable.
UA is pretty clever when it comes to the fabric.
levy, the spurs chairman, wont have to wear the crap that they are going to design for FIVE years so he isnt gonna care. but they are gonna sell a lot less.
i cant tell you how painful this is going to be, its like hearing christian gross is coming back as manager.
I am sure they'll have to step up their game as the Tottenham supplier... we'll see!
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/11/12-kits/j-league-1-2011-round-up-part-2.html
but for tottenham its not a good move,
adidas/nike/puma/umbro are leaders in football kits design and material/.
also in marketing, you will find adidas and nike stores every where!!
for example, i can easily find tottenham/newcastle/chelsea/man u/man city kits in my region/country because their are dealing with these big brand,
but UA ..!!
really i dont know!
Shows what a crap move this is.
I was thinking the same.
A great kit and a unique one, not the same old censoreding PUMA shit.
I guess we'll just wait and see how they do.
But this is a big suprise and i dont know if its a good one or not. As long as the designs are clean and simple then i'm fine with it.
just glad its not boring adidas
They aren't buying the team they are just making the uniform...COYS
here is a pic of toluca's UA shirt.
http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/sports/soccer/mens/apparel/pid1217953-UA-Mexico-Soccer-Dominate-Jersey/1217953-600#
http://www.replayphotos.com/marylandphotostore/soccer-m-pictures/_MSOC___0001048.cfm
Seriously? Nike can become quite lazy at times when it wants to push a 'Team' product, but their kit-making over the past three years has improved drastically. 10-11 Manchester United home kit looked terrible at first, but now fans will miss it. 2010 United States away kit, one that Robert Green has nightmares about. Have you seen Holland's kits in the past?
Nike reinvented the way football kits are viewed. In fact, mate, didn't Nike just buy Umbro? So, technically, Americans are making the England kit, too. Right?
I love Umbro like the next guy and love the Southampton home and new Sweden away.
Don't rip Americans for making crap kits. Because it's just plain untrue.
Under Armour will become the number 2 soccer kit supplier behind Nike by the year 2020. Bet any about of quid on that, mate.
http://www.soccerbible.com/news/general/archive/2011/03/25/high-tech-ua-shirts-coming-to-the-premier-league.aspx
http://www.gotapparel.com