New Scotland Shirt Released

August 14, 2008

As Scotland prepare to take on Northern Ireland in a friendly next week before their first match in the qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup finals they have launched their new home kit.

The new Scotland home kit made by Diadora will be unveiled today and will be available to buy from tomorrow. The shirt is said to have the Scottish football tradition but with Italian styling. The rumours surrounding the design of the shirt seem to point to a style based on some of the older more traditional looking Scotland shirts.

Diadoras European sales Director commented on the shirt saying: “The partnership between the Scottish F.A. and Diadora has grown with each new kit produced for the national team utilising all of our design, technologies and expertise in the technical apparel business which has seen, in our opinion some of the greatest kits produced in the modern game. Following the near qualification in the recent European Championships and previous success of the Home, Away and 3rd kits we’ve had a challenge to produce a product suitable for the Players, staff and fans alike to a level to which they have come accustomed too and most importantly deserve, but we have!!

We’ve researched the history, heritage and requirements of the team to design a new Home kit which we hope will inspire the team to great performances in the forthcoming world cup qualifying campaign and see them into the Finals in South Africa 2010.”

Scotland Manager George Burley when asked about the shirt said: “Representing your country is one of the proudest achievements any Scottish footballer can ever hope to achieve. You can scale the heights of club football, but the feeling you get when you pull on that famous dark blue jersey is almost impossible to beat. Diadora have really done their homework with this new kit. It has all the hallmarks of the great Scotland strips of old and I know that it will help inspire the current generation of stars as we set out on the road to South Africa. The fans are going to love it.”

Let’s hope they can actually get to show off their new top at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The shirt is available for pre-order today from http://www.uksoccershop.com/index.html

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