Socceroos and Matildas kit goes back to the future with a look that throws up memories of the 90s

JUST when you thought it was safe to consign the Socceroos’ vomit shirt to history, it seems the kit for this year’s World Cup and women’s Asian Cup has a hint of homage to its famously spewtastic predecessor.

Socceroos players (l-r) Mat Ryan, Tom Rogic, Aaron Mooy, Mathew Leckie and Trent Sainsbury model the new home kit for the World Cup.

JUST when you thought it was safe to consign the Socceroos’ vomit shirt to history, it seems the kit for this year’s World Cup and women’s Asian Cup has a hint of homage to its famously spewtastic predecessor.

Unveiled by Nike on Thursday, and to be worn first by the Matildas in their opening Asian Cup tie against South Korea early on Sunday, the kit has a distinctly 90s-esque random patterning on the shoulders.

Socceroos players (l-r) Mat Ryan, Tom Rogic, Aaron Mooy, Mathew Leckie and Trent Sainsbury model the new home kit for the World Cup.

Partnered by yellow shorts and socks – an absence of green that is likely to alienate traditionalists – the new kit goes on sale today on Friday, with the Socceroos to wear it in Russia in June.

Matildas star Caitlin Foord models the new kit.

NEW KIT. SAME PASSION. #GoSocceroos https://t.co/6njUlEIQ7u pic.twitter.com/Rv2u0vRgFu

— Caltex Socceroos (@Socceroos) 5 April 2018

The away strip is an uncomfortable blend of classic simplicity and a fluorescent green stripe running diagonally across the front, while the goalkeeper is garbed in a faintly ecclesiastical all-purple.

At least the banana yellow of the current strip has gone. Every cloud and all that…

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