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We put classic international kits on modern players and the results are strangely seductive

The kits of today are all the same.

The introduction of templates have meant that the likes of Nike, Adidas and Puma are producing one kit for a number of teams and just altering the colour scheme.

What happened to the good old days of bespoke kits?

We thought we’d delve once more into football’s alternate reality and see what modern players would look like on retro kits.

Harry Kane at Euro 96…

Kane

Maradona or Messi? How about both?

Messi

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Arjen Robben would have had a field day at Euro 88…

Robben

Every Croatia kit is glorious but just look at Luka Modric in this 1998 number…

Modric

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Ronaldo, Rivaldo and… Neymar?

Neymar

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David Silva pre-Spain’s glory years…

Silva

Paul Pogba — World Cup winner…

Pogba

It doesn’t get any better than this Germany kit, unless you add in Mesut Ozil…

Ozil

Chile are bloody good these days but we’ve all got a soft spot for the Marcelo Salas era…

Sanchez

Hopefully that was a moderately pleasing journey.


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