NIKE: 2013 england football kit

student jason kelly wearing the new 2013 england football kit

NIKE‘s new home kit for the english national football team was unveiled today, via the twitter account of midfielder jack wilshere.

the arsenal player posted an image of a pupil at his former school wearing the jersey, ‘demonstrating that the kit belongs to the nation, not just the players lucky enough to represent england’. wilshere arrived to watch a training session at the priory school in hitchin, hertfordshire, before picking out lucky student jason kelly to wear and reveal the shirt for the first time .

NIKE won the right to produce the shirt in 2012, ending the english team’s long association with Umbro, which had been in place since 1954. read more »

a clean, distinctive design takes the kit back to its roots with its traditional colors of white and dark blue to celebrate the football association’s 150th anniversary. the iconic three lions crest was prominently featured in dark blue on the team’s first kit, and once again, the crest is the proud focus – now with a gold border, a gold star above it signifying england’s world cup win, and a gold ribbon graphic below inscribed with ‘150 years’and the dates 1863 and 2013, marking the football association’s anniversary.

the blue on the new kit is the same dark blue colour that featured on england’s first kit. embodying the clean lines and understated style of the best of english fashion, the white shirt features a dark blue classic crew neck collar, while two side vents on the hem of the shirt subtly feature the st. george’s cross. the shorts are entirely dark blue and the socks are white with a thin dark blue band at the top.