{"id":31064,"date":"2026-06-19T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-cup-2026-africas-greatest-kits-pick-your-favourite\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:05:24","slug":"world-cup-2026-africas-greatest-kits-pick-your-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-cup-2026-africas-greatest-kits-pick-your-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Africa&#8217;s greatest kits &#8211; pick your favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The oldest, and possibly boldest, of our kits, this vision in yellow and green was very much of its time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the shirt had a big collar and deep V-neck, what really made it stand out was the decision to put both the name of the country and the team&#8217;s Leopards nickname and logo on the chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Congolese designer Alvin Junior Mak, who has just gone viral after designing the current squad&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/crkvxp731e2o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">leopard print arrival suits,<\/a> says he went back to the fashions of 1974 for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you are in Africa, we say if you want to move forward, you have to see where you come from,&#8221; he told BBC Sport Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Zaire&#8217;s tournament 52 years ago, which included a 9-0 hammering at the hands of Yugoslavia, turned out to be a failure, at least the kit was anything but. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgz4pnjzlgo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest, and possibly boldest, of our kits, this vision in yellow and green was very much of its time. While the shirt had a big collar and deep V-neck, what really made it stand out was the decision to put both the name of the country and the team&#8217;s Leopards nickname and logo on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31066,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31064\/revisions\/31066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}