Association Football
'Retro shirts', as they are known in the United Kingdom, are also sometimes used in association football, albeit (as with the NFL) with modern fabrics. In 2005–06 Arsenal changed their home colours from their traditional red and white to a variant of maroon known as redcurrant as a commemoration of their final season at Highbury Stadium; this colour was the same shade the team had worn when they had moved to Highbury in 1913. Redcurrant still plays a part in their kits; an alternate kit being worn features redcurrant pinstriping as of 2009-10.
Manchester United wore a replica of their jersey from 1958 during the Manchester derby game against Manchester City in the Premier League on February 10, 2008 at Old Trafford to mark the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster four days earlier. United also used the traditional "One to eleven" numbering scheme rather than using squad numbers. The previous season, 2006–07, the team wore a similar 1950s-style uniform to celebrate 50 years of the Busby Babes' first league championship.
More authentic reproductions of kits from the past have become popular fashion items, especially jerseys linked to successful or memorable teams. When France won the 1998 World Cup, their uniform was reminiscent of the design of the 1984 team with a red horizontal stripe across the chest.
When the United States men's soccer team took the field between 1999 and 2001, their plain white uniform with a thick V-neck collar looked reminiscent of the U.S. Soccer Federation's first uniform worn in 1916.
France and Brazil played a "throwback" game in the Stade de France in 2003, with lace-up collars and the Brazilian team wearing an unfamiliar white top.
For the 2009–10 Premier League in England, newly promoted Burnley wore modified replicas of their 1960 championship kits, when they competed in the then-First Division.
Southampton celebrated the club's 125th anniversary in 2010–11, by wearing the strip worn by the team's original forebears, which consisted of a white shirt with a red sash, white shorts and black socks.
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