Croatian Euro2012 Soccer Jerseys, Get'em While You Can

I posted a few days ago about how to get tickets for matches and accommodations for the upcoming Euro2012 HERE.   I also decided to include some images of the new home and away jerseys that Croatia will be sporting for the tournament, as well as for the World Cup qualifying campaign through the whole of 2013.   For the soccer obsessed fanatic, , here is some more cool images of the jerseys. (I've seen photos of the numbers being all white, and like below, greyish-silver with white border, so I don't know which will be the official final version being used at Euro2012)  I really like this design though, more each time I see it.  I've read that there may be slight modifications before they are mass produced, but the essential design will stay intact. There have been rumours that Adidas or Puma may be the next supplier of the Croatian National Football team kit after the contract with Nike ends, sometime after the World Cup qualifying campaign. Adidas already outfits the Croatian national and olympic men's and women's basketball and handball teams, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them outfit our Soccer team.  More info about this edition from the links below.....

Sources: www.freshnessmag.com

footballfashion.org

Related: still-time-to-croatia-euro-2012-tickets

www.football-shirts.co.uk

www.mam-store.com

www.storesoccerjersey.com

UEFA_Euro_2012

www.uefa.com

www.poland2012.net

store.nike.com



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We already showed you what the Korean National team will be rocking for 2012/2013, and we’re back now with a look at one of Europe’s stronger squads and their new garments. The team in question is the Croatia National Team, whose basic color combo is the same as the good old USA but manages to make itself unique with the checked applique.

The sense of national pride is also evident in the detailing spread throughout, take for example the creed “Uvijek Vjern” inscribed on the inner collar, which translates to “Always Loyal”. The unis realize Nike‘s new commitment that aims for minimal environment impact as well as maximum performance, a goal we can certainly consider to have been achieved thanks to the 100% recycled polyester of the shorts and the 96% recycled materials on the shirts. Click through to get the full shots of the Croatia National team 2012/2013 away kit and stay with Freshness for the latest in Nike Soccer innovations.

Nike continues its recent string of strip launches with that of the Croatia EURO 2012 away kit. The new uniform will be the Vatreni (Blazers) road kit for the 2012/13 international season that includes the European championships and 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

 According to Nike: Croatia’s new Away National Team Kit kit features the country’s famous red and white checks in an innovative, contemporary style.

 Since gaining independence 21 years ago, Croatia’s unique kit has become an important and passionate symbol of the young country.

 The away jersey is blue with a section of the torso revealing the country’s famous red and white checks, signifying that even when Croatia’s players are away from home their country is still close to their hearts.

 Inside the neck is the message “Uvijek Vjern,” which translates as ‘Always loyal’, to celebrate the loyalty Croatians feel for their football team since becoming an independent nation.

  The away shorts are blue. The away socks, now with improved cushioning for greater comfort, movement and protection, are also blue with a wide band featuring the red and white checks.

Can You Spot The Serb (Race)?

Out of work Serbian prostitute from town of Чока, Serbia, or a Cuban Marxist inspired anti-Disney, "Down with Democracy" photoshoot? (Answer to this puzzling question and the rest at bottom of page)



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This was kind of fun to do, some of the photos during my search this past hour almost made me laugh my head off.  Anyway, this one is related to a previous post which you can read HERE..  The point of this game is to spot the Serb, or find the Serbian race if you will.  (I decided to not put photos next to each other, or any photos of Croatians. So I can't be accused of only putting good looking Croatians vis-a-vis homely Serbs) Again, this is solely in regards to the afforementioned "Serb race" business that I've touched upon previously a few times. Directly related to what many, many Serbian nationalists believe.  Just as an example...see Serbian national anthem HERE.  Probably this previous post will give some more information as well HERE.

This isn't going to be an anthropolgy or genetics lesson, about Halblogroups, Haplotypes, DNA, blood types, Y-chromosones, ear sizes etc and so on.   You can google those terms below if you're really into it.  For the longest time though, it was believed by scholars that there are basically 5 different races. Some scholars had slightly different ideas with the addition of more. However, never,  not even once,  was it mentioned or did discussion revolve about a Serb race last time I checked.

 Now, from there you get even more different European sub-classifications of the races of well. You got your Slavic, Tuetonic, Mediterranean, Alpine, Dinaric etc. But nowhere, never, did I come across a "Serb race".    Even to this day, this "Serb race"talk is a big part of the Serb psyche, and I've come across some "chat" sites where some are totally obsessed with it.  The wars of Serbian aggression in the former Yugoland was based upon this premise. One of the big selling points of Serbdom. "Serb lands!"  "Serbs all and everywhere!"  "To the Serbian sea!"....bla bla bla....(Although truthfully, "Serb shitfuckery everywhere!" or "Non-Serb Lands!" is more like it)   This post is just a short example to get my point across and to see the absurdity of this disordered way of thinking.  Like I said before, I looked into this a long time ago, came across many sites with lots of discussion about this topic, and with so many Turkish influences into their language, cultural life and gene pool from centuries of Ottoman empire rule, that if it weren't for the Serbian church...(Everyone who was incorporated for whatever reason into it, is automatically a member of the Serb race remember, and there was lots of population shifts and people movement during those 400 years) ...would Serbs really even exist?

As I sait and thought about this, I could have really had fun with this, maybe even really messed some peoples minds a bit,  but this is just to get my point across in an interesting, interactive way.  ( I really enjoyed checking out the various womens model sites though, checking out all the pics and poses)  Some of the photos below are well known people, so those might be the easy ones. With a couple I used some inventive description to make a few of the pics more interesting, so just focus on the persons ethnicity.  The correct answers to each photo are at the very bottom. (And yes I checked and verified beforehand) Good luck! But most of all have fun folks!.....

1- Russian model photoshoot or Belgrade hooker having a cig break?

2- Serbian or Romanian?

3- Alabama camping ground during Nascar pre-race bbq or Serbian testicle eating festival?

4- Bosnian Serbs or South Ossetia separatists?

5- Armenian monks or Serb monks?

6- Former Prime Minister of Serbia or Republic of Georgia?

7- Turkish or Serbian?

8- Bosnian Serb indicted war criminal or apprehended Syrian Taliban operative?

9- Afghani or Kosovo Serb?

10- Turkish model or Serbian model?

11- Bulgarian or Serbian?

12- Polish or Serbian model?

13- Serbs or Afghans?

14- Scottish soccer player for Glascow Celtic or editor in chief of Serbian "Optimism" magazine?

Intermission music courtesy of.......
Dat face soldier 

(Don't ask, I didn't even bother on this one....he's probably Serb)

15- Serbian or Turkish-Cypriot foreign minister?

16- Azerbaijani or Serbian sports athlete?

17- Serb or Russian?

18- Serbian celebrating 15-0 in the first game of the first set, or crazed Syrian pro-government protester ?

19- Irish actor or Serbian casino owner?

20- Serbian or Russian?

21- Tennis player from Kazakhstan or Serbia after a forehand?

22- Serbian or Russian angry at the heckler in the stands?

23- Serbian or German in a revealing folk costume before the pints arrive?

24- Well known Serbian or Albanian model?

25- Insulted Bavarian Lutheran or Serbian protesting protester?

26- Athlete representative of Serbia or Uzbekistan?

27- Romanian or Serbian model?

28- Serbian actor/director or Irish playright?

29- Serbian monks or Ultra-Orthodox Jews?

30- Serbian or Hungarian doing the "hand on hip" thing? 

31- Portuguese or Serbian singer?

32- Hungarian or Serbian model?

33- Serbian or Bosnian model?

34- ATP tennis player of Brazilian or Serbian descent?

 

35- Portuguese or Serbian team sports manager insinuating the reporter is crazy?

36- Bosnian or Serbian?

37- Serbian model or Slovakian television personality? 

38- Serb or Czech? 

39- Albanian or Serbian?

40- Albanian or Serbian duo?

41- Serb or Albanian on the catwalk?

42- Greek or Serb soaking in the rays?

43- Kosovo-Albanian students or Serb students?

44- Accomplished Serbian actor or French fire/sword swallower from Cirque du Soleil?

45- Just Serb or non-Serb? on this one.

46- Turkmenistan or Serbian athlete?

47- Macedonian or Serbian pop singer/model?

48- Serbians or Kosovar-Albanians?

49- Russian or Serb model 

50- Serbian basketball player charged for near fatal beating of student or Swiss village farmer concerned about milk subsidies and EU tariffs affecting his job?

51- Serbian stripclub owner in Montenegro or Portuguese samba dance instructor from Rio?

52- Interpol surveilance video of Serbian prior to apprehension for European prostitute smuggling ring or Scottish/Finnish money launderer prior to airport drug shipment seizure in Zurich?






















Intermission #2...

53- Serbian actor or Norweigian DJ/music artist?

54- Serbian or Afghani soldier/singer?

55- Serb soldiers or Chechyn army regulars with militia fighting under the motto "Making people open-minded, one bullet at a time"?

56- Chechyn rebel fighters or Bosnian Serbs?

57- Serbian or Romanian?

58- Serbian politician or Turkish soccer club manager?

59- Apprehended Columbian druglord Hernando "Scratch" Gomez or Serb war criminal Goran Hadžić?

60- Portuguese or Serbian Grandmother? 

61- Scene with Serbian actor from the award winning "A Serbian Film" or  scene from History Channel docudrama about Columbian serial killer Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos?

62- Serbian national team figure skater or Swedish alpine skier?

63- Ukranian billionaire Oleg Bakhamtyuk or Serb Colonel Blagoje Adzic on trial at the Hague for the Srebrenica massacre? 

64- Still at large self made Mexican billionaire Joacquin Guzman Loera or the apprehended war criminal Veselin Šljivančanin, for partaking of the Vukovar hospital massacre in 1991?

65- Russian billionaire and professional soccer club owner Roman Abramovich, or CEO of Telekom Serbia and major shareholder of Kurvan shipping lines Nikolai Bellic Smrdljevcin

66- Serb Ivan Bogdanov, leader of Serb hooligans during Serbia soccer match vs. Italy in the city of Genoa, or Sid "Skull crusher" Hernandez before the Scaffold Steel Cage match at the Boston FleetCenter for Wrestlemania XIV?

67- Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, (left) before holding talks with English businessman and Socialist Workers Party leader Richard Jenkins, or political talks with visiting Ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party leader and former Serb general with ties to ordering the Lovas massacre in 1991, Dobrica Ćosić?

 68- Portuguese national soccer team representative Manuel Fernandes (right) or Serbian striker Momčilo Perišić from FK Borac Čačak of the Serbian Soccer League.

 69- French "Bastille Day" celebrations by intoxicated  Frenchmen in the early hours in Paris or Serbian prison release/hero party for Vitar Vasiljevic, for burning children and women alive in Visegrad, Bosnia in the 90's .

70- 3 Serb assasins currently on the run from Interpol or 3 random pics from a dating site for deranged people/serial killers.

71- Portuguese prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann child abduction case, Joaquim Jose Marques, or Serbian Milorad Govnocar, convicted for a spree of 18 purse snatchings in West London?

72- This former professional wrestler, author, US Navy Seal, Governor of Minnesota and Hollywood actor has toured with Fleetwood Mac, partied with REO Speedwagon, performed bodyguard duties for The Rolling Stones, hosts his own televison program and is of part German ancestry, but because of his other half considers himself a Serb or Slovak?








Answers:

1)-Russian
2)-Romanian
3)-Serbian
4)-Serbian
5)-Serbian
6)-Serbian
7)-Turkish
8)-Serbian
9)-Afghan
10)-Turkish
11)-Bulgarian
12)-Polish
13)-Afghan
14)-Scottish
15)-Serbian
16)-Serbian
17)-Russian
18)-Serbian
19)-Irish
20)-Russian
21)-Serbian
22)-Russian
23)-German
24)-Albanian
25)Serbian
26)Serbian
27)-Romanian
28)-Irish
29)-Serbian
30)-Hungarian
31)-Serbian
32)-Hungarian
33)-Bosnian 
34)-Serbian 
35)- Serbian
36)-Bosnian
37)-Slovakian 
38)-Czech
39)-Albanian
40)-Albanian
41)-Albanian
42)-Greek
43)-Kosovo-Albanian students
44)-Serbian
45)Will have to get back to you on this one when I find out.
46)Freebee, just seeing if you're paying attention.
47)-Macedonian
48)-Kosovar-Albanian 
49)-Russian 
50)- Serbian
51)Portuguese 
52)- Scottish/Finnish 
53)-Norweigian
54)-Serbian 
55)-Serbian
56)-Chechyn
57)-Romanian
58)-Serbian 
59)-Serbian
60)-Portuguese 
61)- Serbian
62)-Swedish
63)- Ukrainian
64)- Mexican 
65)- Russian 
66)- Serbian
67)- English
68)- Portuguese 
69)- Serbs 
70)- Serbs 
71)- Portuguese
72)- Slovak
Top photo: Serbian