World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

[mookie1995]

3rd Place!!!!

[Spartanforlife4]

New USWNT jerseys.

Why is there paint splatter? Why are they wearing a 2019 World Cup championship shield for the 2023 World Cup? These are supposed to be for 2023-24, so are they dropping the shield if they don’t win the World Cup?


Designing a soccer jersey should not be that difficult, yet Nike is batting like .250.

https://***********/uswnt/status/164...wZFJ8zBRgGpPbw

[Kepler]

The people who design sports jerseys hate sports.

[Jimjamesak]

New USWNT jerseys.

Why is there paint splatter? Why are they wearing a 2019 World Cup championship shield for the 2023 World Cup? These are supposed to be for 2023-24, so are they dropping the shield if they don’t win the World Cup?


Designing a soccer jersey should not be that difficult, yet Nike is batting like .250.

https://***********/uswnt/status/164...wZFJ8zBRgGpPbw

The World Cup Winners badge is a FIFA thing, they wear it until they’re not Champions. France had a similar badge last November and Argentina has a similar one now.

There’s actually a whole bunch of “Winners badges” because there’s ones for the Club World Cup (and Futsal and Beach) and all of the Continental Champions for both National Teams and clubs, you just don’t see them often because they’re pretty restricted on when teams can wear them (for example MLS won’t allow Seattle to wear the CCL one).

Relevant Wikipedia article

[Kepler]

There’s actually a whole bunch of “Winners badges” because there’s ones for the Club World Cup (and Futsal and Beach) and all of the Continental Champions for both National Teams and clubs, you just don’t see them often because they’re pretty restricted on when teams can wear them (for example MLS won’t allow Seattle to wear the CCL one).

Relevant Wikipedia article

Thank you for the info.

Why would the MLS restrict that? Seems to me that it shows MLS teams can be competitive, which increases the prestige of the MLS (which could use it).

[Jimjamesak]

Thank you for the info.

Why would the MLS restrict that? Seems to me that it shows MLS teams can be competitive, which increases the prestige of the MLS (which could use it).

I have no idea. I assume it’s because of money.

[JF_Gophers]

I wouldn't call anything concacaf does ... prestigious.

[Spartanforlife4]

The World Cup Winners badge is a FIFA thing, they wear it until they’re not Champions. France had a similar badge last November and Argentina has a similar one now.

There’s actually a whole bunch of “Winners badges” because there’s ones for the Club World Cup (and Futsal and Beach) and all of the Continental Champions for both National Teams and clubs, you just don’t see them often because they’re pretty restricted on when teams can wear them (for example MLS won’t allow Seattle to wear the CCL one).

Relevant Wikipedia article

Huh, guess I'm not all that observant then. I knew about the stars, had no idea about the badge. Point still stands about the splatter pattern. But at least it's not like the all-gold they wore in 07.

[Jimjamesak]

I wouldn't call anything concacaf does ... prestigious.

I don’t know, their corruption levels are pretty prestigious.

[Kepler]

I wouldn't call anything concacaf does ... prestigious.

Well, more prestigious than MLS...

[Jimjamesak]

Well, more prestigious than MLS...

That’s debatable.

Liga MX teams didn’t really care about the CCL until very recently when MLS teams got better (they’d prefer playing in the Copa Libertadores). I guess the Club World Cup spot gives it some prestige. But the CCL is so meaningless that Liga MX and MLS started their own competition.

The Gold Cup is pretty meaningless now that the Confederations Cup is no more.

The Nations League is so bad they’re revamping the format to reduce the amount of games the US and Mexico play.

The Women’s tournament is basically “the US wins, Canada finishes second”.

[Kepler]

That’s debatable.

Fair. Sad (for both), but fair.

[Jimjamesak]

Fair. Sad (for both), but fair.

If we’re honest, the average soccer fan is more likely to name an MLS Cup winner than a CCL winner.

In fairness, outside of the UEFA CL and the Copa Libertadores, most soccer fans would be hard pressed to name a Club Continental Champion. And even the Libertadores winner would be a tough ask (it’s Flamengo out of Brazil btw).

[Kepler]

While true, I doubt 1% of non-US fans could name an MLS team. Cosmos don't count.

[Jimjamesak]

While true, I doubt 1% of non-US fans could name an MLS team. Cosmos don't count.

The Galaxy are an easy refute to that, NYCFC and the Red Bulls are pretty well known too. Miami is Beckham’s Team. DC thanks to Rooney. Toronto, Atlanta, Seattle, and Portland also do surprisingly well.

The Cosmos haven’t been relevant in 40 years.