{"id":26173,"date":"2021-08-23T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=26173"},"modified":"2021-08-23T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:54:21","slug":"pumas-new-third-kits-causes-pandemonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/23\/pumas-new-third-kits-causes-pandemonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Puma\u2019s New Third Kits Causes \u201cPandemonium\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier last week, German sportswear company Puma have released the third kits of their 10 elite clubs for this season, which utilized a revolutionary design. And safe to say, the entire footballing fraternity was rocked to the core by the designs of the kits and even footballers themselves were being taken aback by how Puma had done things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 10 elite clubs in question are English champions Manchester City, Italian giants AC Milan, Spanish side Valencia, French clubs Marseille and Rennes, PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands, Ukrainian behemoths Shakhthar Donetsk, German side Borussia Monchengladbach, Russian rising forces FC Krasnodar, and Turkish powerhouses Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n

German aces Borussia Dortmund were set to join the 10 clubs however once fans got wind of the leaked design for Die Borrusien<\/em>\u2019s third kit, they went up in arms and universally condemned the design, prompting Dortmund to heed to their fans\u2019 concerns and postpone their third kit release until the near future.<\/p>\n

The outrage that the Dortmund fans felt was quite reasonable once we see how Puma\u2019s new third kits look like. Eschewing the traditional layout, the kits removed the club badge entirely from the front of the shirt, placing them on the nape region of the outfit. In place of the badge was the name of the clubs being printed smack dab on the center of the kits, while watermarked versions of the clubs\u2019 badge were printed on repeat in the shirts\u2019 background.<\/p>\n

The unique designs were soon met with fierce reactions from football fans worldwide.<\/p>\n

GiveMeSport <\/em>tore into the new kits especially the Man City one, stating that they look like training kits, while Twitter user @Audacity21 branded the kits as \u201cthe worst kits in football history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDelete it, bin it, and try again,\u201d said another Twitter user, @JosephMCFC, \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no way you\u2019re trying to charge 70 pounds for what is essentially a pajama top.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPuma have to be stopped,\u201d said @CheapPanini, while @thesefootytimes tweeted out an image of Man City\u2019s new kit alongside an image of The Office US<\/em>\u2019s Michael Scott saying \u201cNope, don\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

YouTuber Michael Ramsay, better known as The Irish Guy, slammed Man City\u2019s third kit in his video grading of this season\u2019s Premier League third kits that was uploaded to the HITC Sport channel.<\/p>\n

Grading the kit a solid 0\/10, Michael condemned the kit as being \u201can insult to football fans\u201d as well as ripping through the shirt\u2019s appearance and its 70 pound price tag, noting that the multitude of faded-out badges in the kit\u2019s background made it look like a \u201cdark blue pepperoni pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou (Man City and Puma) are asking the working-class people of Manchester to work 9 to 5 and then fork out 70 pounds for something that looks like a spat off Boohoo.com,\u201d Michael said in his video, \u201cThis isn\u2019t a football kit, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s a 70 pound T-shirt. This is dreadful, lazy, and an insult to the intelligence of football fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another YouTuber, Thogden, also had some choice words to say about Man City\u2019s new third shirt in his own grading of this season\u2019s Premier League third kits alongside his father.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should not be an official kit,\u201d said Thogden, \u201cIt looks cheap. You know when you cannot afford a kit and you go to the club store and got those crappy little shirts? That\u2019s what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me it looks like either a T-shirt or a training top,\u201d added Thogden\u2019s father, affectionately called Thogdad, \u201cThis is not good and I hope they won\u2019t charge you 100 quid for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even footballers themselves were also shocked by Puma\u2019s \u201crevolutionary\u201d design.<\/p>\n

The first leg of the UEFA Europa Conference League play-offs was played over last mid-week with Fenerbahce taking on Finnish side HJK Helsinki at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium on Thursday \u2013 a match that Fener <\/em>won 1-0.<\/p>\n

20-year old Muhammed Gumuskaya scored the winning goal of the match, with the youngster being brought on to replace Mesut Ozil. Gumuskaya scored a scorcher from some distance in the 65th<\/sup> minute before wheeling off to celebrate by kissing the badge on his shirt\u2026only for him to be left dumbfounded as Puma had removed the Fenerbahce badge from their third kit and moved it to the back of the shirt.<\/p>\n

Adding more to the awkwardness of the situation is that Gumuskaya, a Fenerbahce youth product who had spent a good chunk of his professional career at his club, had just scored his first European goal and had intended to kiss the Fener <\/em>badge to show his gratitude towards the club.<\/p>\n

Gumuskaya\u2019s embarrassing situation and the overall loathing towards Puma\u2019s third kits this season encapsulates the problem that the German company has \u2013 it\u2019s good that they wanted to innovate with a new breakthrough in design, but sometimes changing things too radically can brought about negative consequences. The sport of football has become a profitable realm for corporations to flex their financial influences but one also must not forget the humble roots that football clubs can trace their heritage from. Altering one\u2019s history too much can cause significant outrage within the fanbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier last week, German sportswear company Puma have released the third kits of their 10 elite clubs for this season, which utilized a revolutionary design. And safe to say, the entire footballing fraternity was rocked to the core by the designs of the kits and even footballers themselves were being taken aback by how Puma had done things. The 10 elite clubs in question are English champions Manchester City, Italian giants AC Milan, Spanish side Valencia, French clubs Marseille and Rennes, PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands, Ukrainian behemoths Shakhthar Donetsk, German side Borussia Monchengladbach, Russian rising forces FC Krasnodar, and Turkish powerhouses Fenerbahce. German aces Borussia Dortmund were set to … Continue reading “Puma\u2019s New Third Kits Causes \u201cPandemonium\u201d”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":26174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1639,1640],"tags":[351,2112,1998,2422,885,2418,2420,359,2293,2421,2417,2419,2235,95,1828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26175,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26173\/revisions\/26175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}