Atletico Madrid Kit 2011-2012

This is what I wrote almost three weeks ago when pictures were leaked of the Atlético Madrid kits for 2011-2012.
What can I say that hasn´t already been said by people much more in tune and with a much higher emotional stake in Atléti than I? If you were cross-eyed, far-sighted and maybe even color blind you might possibly think this was this short of passable. For me though, it looks like they gave two sets of instructions to two separate seamstresses, one sewing from the top down and the other from the bottom up, and asked them to meet up somewhere in the middle.

It also looks like somebody put on their striped barbecue apron over their red shirt or like they´ve tucked a white bib on at a family dinner. Stripes can make you look fat, but these will make you right corpulent. Are they going to play in chef´s hats? How about some nice dark-blue MC Hammer style cargo pants? Only that would make this kit any worse.

It´s a travesty. My eyes are burning and my eyeballs are crossing. The collar is infantile; a far-cry from the classy white collar of last year´s kit or a similar red-collar from the year before. The sleeves are too red; no stripes. The vertical stripes are uneven, there is far too much white on the shirt as it is, and the red stripes are drowned out by that severe swath of white that is superimposed at an angle over the red sections. It creates an imbalance in the force.

Don´t minimize what´s happened here. Atléti´s mojo has been seriously damaged, but on the other hand, at least they´re keeping their best players and hiring atop-quality coach to replace Quique Sanchez-Flores, no? Dóh!

Now, I´m not saying that I had any hand in it. There are plenty supporter´s of Atléti who were outraged that the club would release that sort of design on us. Well, apparently they haven´t. The kit looks actually, surprisingly like last year´s kit. The secondary kit is all black, but I am happy to say that the colchonero image has been maintained. This is one of the classiest kits in La Liga. Simple, direct, stylish and filled with loads of nostalgia which is great because the club will be celebrating their centenario or 100 anniversary in red-and-white. Remember that the club first played with blue-and-white stripes.

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