2008-09 Barcelona Home Jersey Reviewed

For the 2008/2009 sea­son, Barcelona are again wear­ing a home kit designed and man­u­fac­tured by Nike. I was able to get my hands on the shirt recently and here are my thoughts regard­ing the shirt.

There are some replica soc­cer jer­seys that are per­fect for wear­ing in the street that are more aes­thet­ics than a prac­ti­cal foot­ball shirt. In the case of the Barcelona jer­sey, it’s more of a prac­ti­cal shirt than a fash­ion­able piece of cloth­ing. Don’t get me wrong, the design is beau­ti­ful and very unique to Barcelona. But as an item of cloth­ing, the half dark red and half blue is cer­tainly not going to impress the non-football watch­ing pub­lic — if that’s what your aim is.

To me, foot­ball shirts are much than fash­ion or sport­ing wear. They’re a form of coded com­mu­ni­ca­tion to let other peo­ple know that you’re a foot­ball fan and you sup­port the club that you wear. It’s a form of iden­tity. A few weeks ago while stand­ing in line at a local library, a woman asked me if I was a Barca fan. I replied no, but we pro­ceeded to have a long con­ver­sa­tion about her home in Brazil and how her hus­band was a Barcelona supporter.

The shirt itself is com­fort­able to wear. On the back col­lar is a neat fea­ture that has the words “Mes que un club” fea­tured, which trans­lates to “More than a club.”

Directly beneath the slo­gan is another badge inside the shirt which reads “El cant del Barca,” which means the “Song of Barcelona.” Obvi­ously Barca fans have a lot of pride in their club and that is encap­su­lated in the shirt design. Kudos to Nike.

The jer­sey con­tains the same clas­sic red and blue col­ors of Barcelona and reverts back to the half-and-half col­ored jer­seys from the striped tops. The Barcelona crest and Unicef logo are both found on the chest.

The shirt, part of the Nike Fit line, is 100% poly­ester and made in Thai­land. Order the Nike Barcelona Home Jer­sey 2008-09 from Soc­cer­Pro today.

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