South Africa
South Africa – Away – 1998
Destined to be the away shirt for France ’98, this shirt design was only used once, in a pre-tournament friendly against Iceland.
Tonga
Tonga – Home – 2012
Haiti
Haiti – Home – 2000
It’s been a couple of years since I last ventured onto eBay to pick up football shirts, there’s been far too many fakes on there lately. The market has been flooded with cheap copies of rare Caribbean or Africa national football shirts targeting collectors, or Adidas templates with badges ironed on. i would rather be 100% certain about the source of the shirts I get. However, I noticed a couple of shirts which I was pretty sure about, and made some lowball offers which were accepted. This is the first of them to arrive.
The Haiti national team used this in qualification for the 2002 World Cup, a quick search shows them using this during matches against Honduras in 2000.
St Kitts & Nevis
St Kitts and Nevis – Away – 2016
Regular followers of my collection will be aware that I consider the St Kitts & Nevis to be my home international team – despite me not have ventured any further west than Cornwall. The shirt of the Sugar Boyz is one of the hardest to obtain in the western hemisphere despite replicas being made available by the SKNFA for many years. I was fortunate that my in-laws were visiting the islands on a cruise, and I managed to give them instructions on how to get to Football House at Warner Park in Basseterre. I was even more detailed that they decided to buy me both the home and away shirts.I am a very lucky man.
British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands – Home – 2016
I have previously managed to get British Virgin Islands ssirts directly from the BVIFA, and this time they contacted me to let me know that they would be doing a new order for the team, and did I want in. Of course I accepted (their shirts are always lovely). I am slightly disappointed that the badge is no longer the double layered version, and unlike the away shirt, I have yet to see this exact design in use.
Here’s the BVI ladies team wearing the shirts in 2016.
Zambia
Zambia – Home – 2017
I was skeptical at first when I saw that Zambia were going with Mafro, the former African Champions with an unheard of Thai brand. Okay, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Kenya change suppliers all the time, but Zambia have most recently had official deals with Nike as well as wearing Kappa and Umbro. However, this is a belter of a shirt, and the photos don’t really do it justice. The quality is decent, the cut is brilliant, and Mafro have recognised that a Chipolopolo jersey needs style – not a gimmick.
Get your own Zambia shirts from the Football Shirt World online shop.
Kenya
Kenya – Third – 2017
Probably the most outlandish of the three Mafro Kenya shirts, in fact, it doesn’t really look like a football shirt at all.
If you like this shirt, or would like to see what other Kenya shirts I have available. Check out the Football Shirt World online store.
Zambia
Zambia – Away – 2017
Zambia are affectionately known as Chipolopolo, or “Copper Bullets”. Like many football nicknames, they are named after one of their biggest exports: Copper. In the past Zambia have played in Orange (or Copper) as their home shirts, their famous 4-0 victory over Italy at the 1988 Seoul Olympics was in their orange home colours. More recently they have increasingly worn Green at home, with orange or white as their away colours. Personally I’m all for tradition, but they’ve had some cracking green shirts.
There are a small number of orange Chipolopolo shirts are available from the Football Shirt World online shop.
Kenya
Kenya – Away – 2017
Kenya have had some outstanding designs, mainly from the early 2000s and late 90s. Unfortunately these seem impossible to get hold of, although that won’t stop me trying of course. the internet is plagued with fake Kenya shirts, particularly the Adidas designs. I recently managed to squire some of the Kenya shirts, and also ordered these Mafro shirts directly from Mafro. the red away shirt is clearly pick of the bunch and was used in their recent defeat to Sierra Leone – another country now supplied by Mafro.
In the end this was the only shirt from the 3 colours used in a senior team fixture.
I have limited numbers of Kenya shirts available through the Football Shirt World online shop in sizes S-XXL.
