Your U.S. home kits are available and I'm not a fan

Here it is your brand new 2010 U.S. World Cup home kit finally out and available. If you've been paying attention to what Nike might produce for the U.S. you would know this image was leaked months back. Now as a jersey collector - remember I have over 25 - I think Nike did a piss poor, below average, and overall shitty job of replicating the very sharp classic look of the 1950 jersey.

Several years ago, Nike put together a retro 1950 jersey for the U.S. to wear during a friendly match in which they did a much better job in my estimation with this jersey pictured below worn by Landon Donovan. In my opinion they should have just a little touch up job on this jersey and used it as the 2010 U.S. Jersey.

If I buy a U.S. jersey this year it will look more like this one that I found on some random site. Love the red stripe instead of a grey stripe, like the v-neck better than the weird way Nike put together the open neck above. Like the crest below much better than Men's National Team have now. The total package just looks so much nicer.

I think everyone likes the idea in theory of what Nike were going. The 1950 team had the best result of any U.S. team in history and pulled off one of the greatest World Cup upsets of all time as England were favorites to win the Jules Rimet Trophy that season. With the U.S. in the same group as England and playing them in the first game of their tournament, the parallels were obvious.

Interestingly enough if you did not know, the Jules Rimet Troph or now FIFA World Cup Trophy, depicts Nike the Greek goddess of victory. Nike, the U.S. company, will likely sponsor the U.S. team if not forever for a very long time because they are essentially more than partners, Nike is to the U.S. what Adidas is to Germany. How long before the Nike U.S. team lifts the Nike World Cup trophy?