{"id":58241,"date":"2026-08-07T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/new-wales-football-kit-slammed-by-fans-as-adidas-swapped-for-sudu\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:14","slug":"new-wales-football-kit-slammed-by-fans-as-adidas-swapped-for-sudu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/new-wales-football-kit-slammed-by-fans-as-adidas-swapped-for-sudu\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wales football kit slammed by fans as Adidas swapped for SUDU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales football fans have been left divided over the country&#8217;s new home kit, with some comparing the pattern on the red shirt to that seen on bus seats.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new shirt was revealed on Thursday by the Football Association of Wales (FAW), which said it was &#8220;inspired by the rich tradition of Welsh double cloth weaving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the first Wales shirt produced by sportswear brand Sudu, after the FAW parted ways with Adidas after 13 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">FAW said the reaction to football kits was &#8220;subjective&#8221;, adding it remained &#8220;incredibly proud of the creative process behind the new Cymru home kit&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The association said the kit rejected &#8220;reused designs&#8221;, and that Sudu had worked with the association and fans &#8220;to understand the DNA of the nation&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;pro&#8221; version of the adult shirt costs \u00a390, with a matching pair of shorts and socks costing a total of \u00a3136.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A replica adult shirt costs \u00a370, while a full kit for a child including shorts and socks costs \u00a389.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Home nations rivals England have their most expensive adult home shirt on sale for \u00a3134.99, while Scotland&#8217;s is \u00a375.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But people who were not pleased with the kit slammed it online, with one describing it as the &#8220;worst Welsh shirt in history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9w0x84l8vzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales football fans have been left divided over the country&#8217;s new home kit, with some comparing the pattern on the red shirt to that seen on bus seats. The new shirt was revealed on Thursday by the Football Association of Wales (FAW), which said it was &#8220;inspired by the rich tradition of Welsh double cloth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6457,166,403,1169,16255,16257,16256,312],"class_list":["post-58241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-adidas","tag-fans","tag-football","tag-kit","tag-slammed","tag-sudu","tag-swapped","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58243,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions\/58243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}