#63 Why do the Dutch wear orange, the Italians blue, and the Australians gold? Explaining some of the iconic kit colors of international soccer
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Taylor takes a look at some of the iconic kit colors in international soccer and tries to get to the bottom of how they came to be. Nations discussed in this episode are Italy, Japan, Croatia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, and Australia.
We mostly left out countries that pull their color scheme from the national flag, because otherwise that would make for a very short episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everybody to another episode of Soccer 101. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:16.0 | This week we are recording in the midst of the Euro group stage, the European Championship |
| 0:20.6 | Group stage, for those of you potentially listening to this 15 years in the midst of the Euro group stage, the European Championship group stage, for those of you |
| 0:21.9 | potentially listening to this 15 years in the future, I hope your hoverboards are excellent, |
| 0:26.8 | and I should clarify that I'm talking about the 2020 Euros played in 2021, which is, of course, |
| 0:32.5 | not confusing at all. And in this iteration of the European Championships, we do have some of our iconic teams, |
| 0:38.6 | and I don't mean our most winning teams, although some of them are. What I mean is iconic in the |
| 0:43.4 | sense that you know exactly how they're going to look before they even step on the field. |
| 0:47.9 | Italy will be wearing blue, Sweden will be wearing yellow, Croatia will be wearing the best |
| 0:52.4 | kits in the tournament. We all know that's going to be |
| 0:55.1 | the case, but why is it the case? For many national teams, the uniform mirrors the flag. Makes |
| 1:00.7 | sense. If your flag is red, white, and blue, you're probably wearing red, white, and blue. If your |
| 1:05.3 | flag is black, yellow, and red, chances are, that's going to be your uniform as well. But there |
| 1:10.5 | are outliers to that, and then there are some teams that do going to be your uniform as well. But there are outliers |
| 1:11.2 | to that, and then there are some teams that do follow that pattern, but require a little more |
| 1:15.0 | explanation because the story is kind of interesting. So on today's episode, we're going to look |
| 1:20.2 | at seven different national teams that have, I would say, iconic color schemes when it comes |
| 1:26.7 | to their kits. And I should stress, this is not |
| 1:28.9 | just European teams. We're going to go around the world to look at a few different ones. But we |
| 1:34.9 | are going to start in Europe, and we're going to start with the tradition, the institution, |
| 1:39.6 | the Atsuri. When Italy are coming out for a tournament, you know they're going to be in blue, |
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