Where's the White in the All Whites?
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The reason for the strips is as follows. The colours were arranged
by FIFA a couple of weeks ago. Brazil were the "home" team so got
to wear their first choice yellow shirt. For television,
spectator and media purposes one team has to be in predominatly
dark colours and the other one in light, hence the Brazilians in
the white shorts. Nothing to do with NZ.
The reason for the strips is as follows. The colours were arranged
by FIFA a couple of weeks ago. Brazil were the "home" team so got
to wear their first
choice�yellow shirt. For
television, spectator and media purposes one team has to be in
predominatly dark colours and the other one in light, hence the
Brazilians in the white shorts. Nothing to do with NZ.
Generally speaking, white, yellow and grey are considered light, everything else is considered dark, but I think the rule mentioned above only applies to shirts. As far as shorts and socks go, the opposing teams can't wear the same piece of clothing in the same colour. For example, if we had worn white shorts and Brazil blue, that would have been fine too. Not sure how they reached the decision ultimately, but probably by mutual arrangement.
Where's the White in the All Whites?
Ok, I thought it was just a one-off then, a two-off, then maybe a
three, but why do the All Whites continue to wear the All
Blue? Looks and sounds a bit silly if you ask me. Is it
a deal with having to wear away colours or is there some other
reason. Silliest thing was tonights match making Brazil
change their blue shorts cos it clashed with ours!
agreed, nz teams always play rubbish in blue
Like against Wales?
Like against Georgia???? First win on European soil?
Its the official away strip. I happen like it quite a bit.
Its much better than boring black.
The reason for the strips is as follows. The colours were arranged
by FIFA a couple of weeks ago. Brazil were the "home" team so got
to wear their first choice yellow shirt. For television,
spectator and media purposes one team has to be in predominatly
dark colours and the other one in light, hence the Brazilians in
the white shorts. Nothing to do with NZ.
My oversight, yes the all whites play well in blue, as long as they
don't bring back the red shorts as these were the colours when the
mighty vanawatu defeated us, correct me if i am wrong
Red shorts? OMG what brightspark thought that one up?! No wonder they lost that game!
Erm, which one of those was considered dark? The yellow or the
light blue?
SiNZ2007-08-20 12:44:11
The reason the away strip is now blue is because its the same blue
as on our National flag. This decision was made a few years ago
when we switched to Nike as the national strip maker.
But the blue in the kit looked a lot lighter than the blue on the
flag... maybe I need to turn down the brightness on my telly
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Erm, which one of those was considered dark? The yellow or the
light blue?
Generally speaking, white, yellow and grey are considered light, everything else is considered dark, but I think the rule mentioned above only applies to shirts. As far as shorts and socks go, the opposing teams can't wear the same piece of clothing in the same colour. For example, if we had worn white shorts and Brazil blue, that would have been fine too. Not sure how they reached the decision ultimately, but probably by mutual arrangement.
I had to photograph Ryan Nelsen and Mia Jackman a couple of years
ago for SNZ and Nike for the SMall Whites coaching manual and
posters. I was told by Hamish Miller that was the reason for the
change to Blue for the away strip. I think from memory the last
time we used the black away strip was when we played France in the
confeds cup. After that we had the red shorts and blue top. The red
is also in the flag. Im not sure if the Blue is supposed to match
sorry.
But the blue in the kit looked a lot lighter than the blue on the
flag... maybe I need to turn down the brightness on my telly
maybe we need to go with beige in the away strip...convert the
beige brigade (cricket fans) into footy fans too
I am sick of seeing us play in blue.
Tonite we are both the away teams... just silly.
We're the All Whites. Shouldn't we be in White? England played in
red FFS. We should have asked England to change socks and shorts.
they're the all whites u mean u dum f**k, unless ur in the team..
NZ were the "home" team for the purposes of kit choice. (For the North Korea game, NZ are the "away" team as they were with Brazil.)
So I guess the England kit choice comes down to the regulation
that states:
If, in the opinion of the referee or match commissioner, the two teams� colours might cause confusion or prove unsuitable for television broadcast, the host team will wear its official kit while the visiting team will wear either its reserve kit or a combination of both.
Except of course, NZ should have worn white under that rule
too..... you don't suppose that the NZ Association entered the
colours in the wrong boxes in the registration form....
They're wearing white vs Korea. One of the guys told me.
white and blue shorts
The ALLWHITES first team wear white,in all the american tour, For
me they wear bleau with Wales,because their first shirt was white
and with georgia also.