Episode 13: Women’s World Cup 2023 – home shirts

Welcome to the thirteenth episode of the Kit Nerd Corner podcast! The gang took a pretty close look at all 32 home shirts on offer at the Women’s World Cup, kicking off on July 20.

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What an epic evening of talking about shirts, damn.

32 home shirts, Groups A through H, and we talked about every one.

Surprisingly, of the 32 shirts, there weren’t too many that we disagreed strongly about. (Aw, we’re all so friendly with each other!) The biggest gaps in our ratings were due to Rich having a bit of a strop. Twice. Typical.

So settle in, pour yourself a nice cup of coffee or tea or a nice pinot gris, maybe, perhaps an Italian pilsner, and enjoy the dulcet tones of us talking about soccer shirts.

And of course, images of all* the shirts we talk about are below.

* Okay, not all; but I gotta get the away shirts episode ready too, so I’m just including the 32 home shirts – Brenton

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Episode rundown, with times bolded:

0:00 – INTRODUCTION

Intro music: Definition by Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli)

We’re up for up. Mark is ready. Rich is dependable. Kristin wants to launch a revolution.

2:45 – GROUP A

3:15 – Switzerland by Puma, with mountains
6:30 – New Zealand by Nike, with ferns
8:25 – Norway and Philippines

9:32 – GROUP B

10:55 – Ireland by Castore, nice pinstripes
12:35 – Nigeria by Nike, minty meh
14:17 – Australia by Nike, swirly fun
17:45 – Canada by Nike, lovely darker maple leaves

Includes moose and beavers!

22:45 – GROUP C

23:15 – Spain by Adidas and Costa Rice by Adidas, but cheaper
24:15 – Zambia by KoPa (an in-house brand!)
28:00 – Japan by Adidas, with pink!

Plus a quick chat about changing badge colours.

33:10 – GROUP D

33:55 – England in boring white by Nike
37:28 – Haiti by SAETA, a bold, bold shirt
41:00 – Denmark by hummel, feat. pop art
46:05 – China by Nike, feat. clouds

Includes a short digression to talk about women’s teams wanting dark shorts instead of white ones

48:10 – GROUP E

48:40 – USA by Nike and paint
52:15 – Vietnam by Grand Sport
55:20 – Netherlands swirly by Nike
56:15 – Portugal by Nike. Boo.

57:20 – GROUP F

57:50 – Jamaica by Adidas (so great! great socks!)
58:07 – Brazil by Nike, meh
58:20 – Panama by Reebok
1:01:10 – France by Nike; friends, this one is weird, feat. Kristin getting angry at a shirt and Rich slandering an entire country

1:07:20 – GROUP G