The new Arsenal home shirt for the 2012-13 season which pays tribute to
the North London club’s visionary past and bright future, inspired by
126 years of innovation and style.
Arsenal Football Club has long been the benchmark for innovation and
change. It was Herbert Chapman – the club’s manager from 1925 to 1934 –
who championed the use of floodlights, numbered shirts and white
footballs in the modern game. And Nike, official kit supplier and
leaders in design and innovation, has unveiled a home kit that pays
tribute to club heritage whilst offering players and fans a modern and
stylish new uniform.
The shirt boasts the traditional red block
body with white sleeves but fans will find a new twist to the kit; a
blue (obsidian) hoop detail on the collar, sleeves and socks.
Blue (obsidian) has long been used as a
third colour on Arsenal’s shirts throughout their illustrious history
and features in the Arsenal crest; and it’s inclusion in the kit for the
2012-13 season nods to that past but gives it a fresh, bold look.
Heritage details include an inner neck
graphic which reads; “Victoria Concordia Crescit (the club’s latin logo
meaning victory through harmony). The outer neck graphic is a nod to
Chapman’s famous ‘WM formation’ that galvanised and shaped the modern
game.
As is traditional, the new shorts are white
but with a WM formation on the side, and ‘Arsenal’ in the back of the
waistband. The home kit socks are white with red and blue (obsidian)
hoop detail.
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