When the 2014 World Cup in
Brazil kicks off on June 12, we'll be treated to one month of the world's best
and most exciting football. But sports nerds of a certain stripe are also in
for an added bonus: World Cup uniforms ("kits" in football parlance), which
by many estimations represent the coolest gear the entire sports world has to offer.
The World Cup of style is dominated by football’s
big-boy brands: Nike sponsors
10 of the World Cup's 32 teams; Adidas sponsors
nine; Puma sponsors eight; Burrda, Marathon, Uhlsport, Joma and Lotto sponsor
one apiece. But each company is busting out the best it has to offer for the
millions of football fans (and apparel consumers) who will tune into the World
Cup from points around the globe this summer.
We've
been nerding out over World Cup kits all spring, so now it's time to gather
them all together in one place. What follows is our very unscientific ranking
of all 32 outfits (Okay, 31; Bosnia and Herzegovina isn't expected to
officially release its duds until early June) as done by Mashable.com. We've ordered them from here
from snazziest to meh-iest.
Check
them out, and then tell me in the comments section below.
which are your favourites and what position you think Nigeria's kit should have been ranked.