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Retro World Cup Stories - Sweden against Pelé

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:11:22 +0000

Sweden played its only World Cup final when it hosted the competition in 1958.

It was the first World Cup, and also the first sports event, with television coverage for more than 60 countries. It was also the first and only World Cup with the four national teams from Great Britain participating in the final phase.

The Scandinavian team overcame the group stage after a draw and two games won. At that time the points for a winning match were only two.

In the quarterfinals Sweden won the Soviet Union with two goals in the second half.
Then in the semifinal, the Scandinavian team eliminated the reigning world champion of West Germany with a comeback from 0-1 to 3-1 by Sweden.

In the final, the hosts found the best selection of the World Cup: the Brazil of a young Pele.
Vavá, Didí, Bellini and Garrincha were the other great players of a Brazil national football team that, after a masterful World Cup performance, delighted the football fans in the final.
Sweden went ahead with a goal from Liedholm, but then Vavá's double, and goals from Pelé and Zagallo led the result to 4-1 for Brazil.
Simonsson, Sweden's best player in that World Cup, scored the goal for the 4-2, but in the 90th minute Pele was going to decree the end of the match.

A star was born. The Brazilian forward at his debut in a major international tournament led the Brazilian team to win their first World Cup, and began to write the legend of "O'Rey".

This is still the best result in a World Cup for Sweden, which in 1994 will reach the final for the third place: winning against Bulgaria.

Seventy years later, Retrofootball® launches the retro shirt of the Sweden national football team at the 1958 World Cup.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Costa Rica at 1990 World Cup

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:24:52 +0000

Costa Rica is the most successful national football team of Central America's history.

They won the CONCACAF Championships at its first participation in 1963 and then winning two times again in 1969 and 1989.
Los Ticos also gained 8 titles in the Copa Centroamericana, where they reached the final 12 times in 14 competitions. Actually, the team has started to perform competitive since the late 1980s.

In the 1984 Costa Rica achieved the first international win for the National Team, defeating Italy at the Summer Olympic Games.
Five years later, Costa Rica National football team qualified for the first time to a World Cup after a great campaign in the CONCACAF Championship.
Los Ticos finished first in their qualification group stage, winning in the last game against El Salvador, and finally getting the ticket to the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

In the competition hosted by Italy, Costa Rica arrived with impressive players like Cayasso, Conejo, Flores and Medford.
In the first game, played at Luigi Ferraris stadium in Genoa, Costa Rica defeated Scotland with a goal by Cayasso after a great play.
Then Brazil prevailed 1-0 against the Central American team but Costa Rica advanced to the second round winning 2-1 against Sweden.
In the round of 16 Czechoslovakia won 4-1 against Costa Rica, eliminating the team at their first appearance in a World Cup.
From this competition, Costa Rica has continuously been noticeable in the international competition, reaching the quarter finals in 2014 and qualifying again to 2018 World Cup.

For the occasion of the 2018 World Cup, Retrofootball® launches the Costa Rica national football team retro shirt of the 1988.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Nigeria's worst enemy

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:31:22 +0000

Nigeria will participate to a World Cup for the 7th time in its football history.
The african national football team reached the World Cup Round of 16 three times (1994, 1998 and 2014), in the first 2 competition played one of the best nigerian players: Jay-Jay Okocha.

Okocha won the African Cup of Nations with Nigeria in 1994 and also played the final lost against Cameroon in 2000.
Between Nigerians and Cameroonians there is a strong rivalry since the second half of the 80s. That's because Cameroon won 3 African Cup finals against Nigeria.

The Super Eagles won their first African Cup of Nations in 1980, when they hosted the competition.
Four years later Nigeria reached the knockout stage, and there they won the semifinals against Egypt on penalties. In the final against Cameroon the Nigerians scored the first goal, but the opponents scored the goal for the draw and 2 goals more in the second half: Cameroon raised the trophy.

In 1988 the African Cup was hosted by Morocco. Nigeria national football team did a great performance reaching the final, once again, against Cameroon. Unfortunately for the Super Eagles, the outcome was the same and the Cameroonians won their second title.
In the 90s Nigeria played 3 African Cup: being runners-up in 1990, winning the third place in 1992 and finally being champions in 1994.

But in 2000, when Nigeria and Ghana hosted the tournament, the final was against Super Eagles versus Indomitable Lions.
Samuel Eto’o was 18 at the time, Patrick Mboma, Nwankwo Kanu and Okocha were at their peaks.
Eto'o and M'Bomba scored the first 2 goals for Cameroon in the first half, then Chukwu was the author of the 2-1 and Okocha scored for the 2-2 in the second half. At the Penalty shootout Kanu and Ikpeba missed and for the third time Cameroon was the champion against Nigeria.

The Nigerians will win their third African Cup in 2013 against Burkina Faso and qualified to Russia 2018 winning the group stage against Zambia, Algeria, and their rivals from Cameroon.

For the occasion of the 2018 World Cup, Retrofootball® launches the Nigeria national football team retro shirt of the 80s.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Iceland's sports miracle

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:28:38 +0000

Iceland national football team arrives to Russia 2018 as the smallest country who ever participated into a World Cup, after they catched the attention of the football fans in the last 4 years.

Before the play-off lost against Croatia in order to qualify to 2014 World Cup, there is a fact that worth knowing.
It was 1996 when in a friendly match against Estonia, something very curious happened. At the 62nd minute Iceland was winning 3-0, and there was a substitution. Arnor Guðjohnsen was replaced in the game by his son: Eiður Guðjohnsen. It was the first time in the history of professional football that father and son played in the same match.
Eiður Guðjohnsen was only 18 and then will win 2 Premier League with Chelsea and the "triplete” of 2009 with Guardiola's Barcelona.

Six years ago Iceland was ranked 133 by FIFA, now they're 22. Heimir Hallgrímsson is the coach responsable of this sports miracle (as coach-assistant in 2016) but behind the first national team there is a whole football association working.
In the early 2000s the KSI (Football Association of Iceland) made cheaper and easier for Icelanders to take coaching courses and licenses by UEFA. Also, in the past 15 years KSI built over 150 indoor pitches across the country, most of them next to schools.
As a result Iceland qualified for the 2011 European under-21 championship and then barely missed the qualification to 2014 World Cup.

In a country of 330 thousand inhabitants dealing with storms, earthquakes, snowfalls and eruptions, there is only one way to move forward: being together. So did the Icelanders of football as Gunnarsson, Sigurdsson and Hallfredsson that are going to play the 2018 World Cup.

For the occasion, Retrofootball® launches the “Father and Son” retro shirt of Iceland National Football Team in 1996.

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Retro World Cup Stories - The first Croatia National Football Team

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:32:15 +0000

It was in 1992 when the Croatian National Football Team was officially admitted to FIFA. Two years before Croatia obtained the independence from Yugoslavia and in the same year, they started to establish national team.
Yugoslavia National Football Team reached the final of European Cup twice in the 60s and also obtained a third place in the first World Cup in 1930.
Since the dissolution, Croatia has been the best national football team of the ex-Yugoslavia.

In 1990 Croatia invited in Zagreb the USA national team to play a first unofficial match won by the hosts 2-1. Then in the 90s the croatian team will start to participate to the most important tournaments.
At the 1966 European Championships Croatia beat the reigning champions, Denmark, before reaching the quarter-finals against Germany and going out of their first participation.
Two years later the Croatian team was the surprise of the 1998 World Cup in France. Having in the squad players like Zvonimir Boban, Robert Prosinečki and Aljosa Asanovic, the Croatian side was in the stage group alonGside Argentina, Jamaica and Japan. Scoring in the 3-1 against Jamaica, Prosinecki became the first player to score in the World Cup for two different countries (Croatia and Yugoslavia). With a win against Japan and 1-0 lost against Argentina Croatia qualified for the round of 16. There Croatia defeated Romania thank to a goal by Suker, and reached the quarter-finals against Germany.

The game was a chance to avenge the 1996 European Cup quarter-finals. The Germans played the entire second half with a man less, due to a red card, and Croatia won 3-0. Revenge accomplished.
In the semi-finals against France (hosts of the competition) Suker scored right at the beginning of the second-half. One minute later France scored the goal for the draw and after fifteen minutes the winning goal.
By the way, at their first participation at the World Cup, Croatia, won 2-1 the third-place final against Holland. It's still the best international result for Croatia.
Šuker scored in each game (6), being the top scorer of the competition. He was an incredible striker, maybe the best finisher in Europe between 1996 and 1998.

Then Croatia will reach the European Cup quarter-finals in 2008, losing against Turkey.

Twenty years after their first World Cup participation, Retrofootball® launches the retro shirt of the first Croatian national football team in 1990.

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Retro World Cup Stories - The 1978 World Cup under Videla's dictatorship

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:14:18 +0000

Forty years after the World Cup in Argentina in 1978, if you want to know how this competition really was, you will have to ask someone who lived in those years.

The South American country was under the ferocious dictatorship of Videla, and, unfortunately, football was used as a curtain to cover the macabre facts of the dictator.

It was not yet the Maradona's National Team, he was only 17 years old and, to the surprise of Argentine fans, it was not called by Luis Menotti. Years later, Menotti and Maradona, will say that it was the saddest day of their lives. Diego also said that was the day in which he promised himself to win a World Cup with Argentina. And he will.

Kempes was the only footballer in the squad that was playing in Europe, in Valencia, and finished as the top scorer of the World Cup with 6 goals. Also Argentina could count on the captain Daniel Passarella and Osvaldo Ardiles.

In the first round Argentina won the third game against Peru 6-0, qualifying for the final. That was a suspicious victory: it is rumored that the Argentine Government had paid the Peruvian players to lose by more than 4 goals difference, to allow Argentina to pass the round. In the final against Holland the Argentinian national football team played a spectacular match at the Monumental in Buenos Aires. El Matador Kempes scored 2 goals, and Argentina won its first World Cup, achieving the plan of Jorge Videla.

Eight years later, Diego Maradona's La Albiceleste won the 1986 World Cup, when Argentina was already a democratic country.

Forty years after the first World Cup won, Retrofootball® launches the shirt with which Maradona scored the most famous goal in the history of football against England 1986.

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when Maradona scored the Mano de Dios goal

Retro World Cup Stories - Denmark: football as an amateur sport

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:59:26 +0000

Denmark will participate to a World Cup for the fifth time in the history of the national football team. We can remember some great danish players as Henrik Larsen, the brothers Brian and Michael Laudrup who played in important european clubs, but also Peter Schmeichel who was the goalkeeper of the great Manchester United who won several competition in the 90s. These players lead the Danish national football team to win the European Cup in 1992 against Germany. That's a great result if we think that only 20 years before the Danish Football Association (DBU) only allowed amateurism at the national team. Until 1971 football remained an amateur past-time in Denmark. For this reason most of the best Danish football players had to move abroad to make a living, and consequently, the national football team wasn't very competitive. The fact that a lot of players of national team were playing abroad convinced the DBU to abolish the amateurism rule in 1971. In 1977 Allan Simonsen, a Danish player from Borussia Mönchengladbach, was crowned the best player in Europe, winning the Ballon d'Or. Probably this has helped to speed up the process, and would then allow the professional football players to play in the Danish league in 1978. Finally, the DBU chose the German coach Sepp Piontek as the first professional coach of the national team in 1979. For the occasion of 2018 World Cup, Retrofootball® launches the retro shirt of Danish national football team in the 70s.

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Contest "Retro World Cup" - Official Rules

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:10:11 +0000

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Retro World Cup Stories - Peru at the 1970 World Cup Mexico

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:37:14 +0000

An year before the 1970 World Cup Peru played a friendly match against Brazil. The Peruvians were winning 2-1 when the Brazilian Gerson committed a tough foul on Orlando de la Torre, known as El Chito. A 40 minute fight begins, then Seleçao won 3-2. The following year, the coach of Peru national football team is the Brazilian Waldyr Pereira, better known as Didì, who has won 2 world cups as a player. Peru, thanks to the goals of Teofilo Cubillas and Chumpitaz's defensive interventions, will play the quarterfinals against Brazil. The night before the match, Didì receives a call from his family. They have been threatened: if Brazil does not win, they will pay the consequences. Didì, in this match, leaves El Chito on the bench, an excellent defender who wanted to take revenge on Gerson. Brazil won 4-2 in one of the most beautiful matches in the history of the World Cup, perhaps in the history of football. Even so, in Lima the players were received as if they had won. But according to the Peruvians, that match could have really won it.
Retrofootball®, for the 2018 World Cup, launches the retro shirt of the 70's of Peru: white with the typical red diagonal line.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Australia's first world cup partecipation

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:40:22 +0000

Australia will play its fourth consecutive world championship in Russia, the fifth in its history. The first participation of the Socceroos at the final stage of a World Cup dates back to 1974. The Australians arrived first in the qualifying round and went to play for the play-off against Iran (link). The victory in the play-off against South Korea gave the final qualification to the Australian national team. Unfortunately, in the group of Australia there will be East Germany, West Germany and Chile. The Australians lose the first against East Germany and also the second against Gerd Muller's West Germany. Finally, in the last game, the Australian national team got a draw against Chile. It was their first historic point in the final stages of a World Cup. For the 2018 World Cup, Retrofootball® launches the retro shirt of the Australian national team of 1974: yellow with green collar and trim, and the emblem of the time.

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Retro World Cup Stories - France: 1958 World Cup and Fontaine's record

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:18:28 +0000

In 1958 FIFA assigned the organization of the World Cup to Sweden. It was the second World Cup broadcasted on TV, of course, in black and white. Perhaps for this reason we do not remember one of the best French national teams in the history. Raymond Kopa, who played for Real Madrid, was the star of a rather young and inexperienced squad. In the first match against Paraguay Les Blues catched the attention winning 7-3 with an hat-trick by Just Fontaine. Although this World Cup is remembered as the debut of the young Pelé, the story of Fontaine deserves to be told. The young Just learns to play among the palm groves of Marrakech (French protectorate) and comes to lead the national team of Morocco in '52, before moving to Reims and start to wear the shirt of the French National team. In that World Cup Fontaine will score 13 goals, that’s still the record of the competition. But the journey of France will be stopped in the semifinals by the Brazil of Vavà, Didì and Pelé which led Brazil to win their first World Cup.

Here you find the shirt of the 1950's of the French National team:

Retrofootball® launches also
the retro shirt of the French national team in 1971,
blue with V-neck and the “cockerel” on the chest!

Retro World Cup Stories - The first Iran's victory in a World Cup

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:38:03 +0000

The Iranians have only one chance to play the 1998 World Cup: the play-off against Australia. In the first leg to Tehran ends 1-1. In the return match Australia scores the first 2 goals and the game seems over. Actually, the Iranian government is worried by the fact that an hypothetical party for qualification can be difficult to manage. But in the second half Iran evens the game 2-2, qualifying. In the squares of the main Iranian cities, thousands of boys and girls celebrate at the rhythm of AC / DC. The government would like to block women's festivities, but not being able to stop a popular party, it orders the team not to return home before 2 weeks. Finally in France Iran have to play a game with a political meaning against the United States. FIFA had the difficult task of ensuring that the event took place without problems. For its part, Iran entered the field with a white rose (symbol of peace) per player. At the end of the 90 minutes Iran will win its first historic game at the World Cup for 2-1, and the 22 players approached the two countries, more than the politicians had done until then. For the occasion Retrofootball® launches the Iran 1990s retro shirt!

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Retro World Cup Stories - Morocco at the World Cup for the first time

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:14:03 +0000

Morocco waited 20 years to return to play in a World Cup: when in 1998 the competition was organized by France, the Moroccan team came third in the group, behind Brazil and Norway. There is a curious fact about the team that will go to Russia 2018: only one of the 23 players was born in Morocco, the others 22 were born and raised in Europe. The first and historic qualification of the "Atlas Lions" in a World Cup was in Mexico 1970: in the second qualifying phase they played a "tiebreak" game against Tunisia that ended with a draw, and by means of the coin toss Morocco qualified. Winning against Nigeria and Sudan they went to Mexico. The draws put in the path of the Moroccan Team one of the strongest teams of that World Cup: the West Germany. In the first match the Moroccan team scored the first goal, but Seeler and Müller completed the German comeback. Retrofootball launches the Morocco's retro shirt of the World Cup 1970 to live the history of the African team!

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Retro World Cup Stories - The Black Panther of World Cup

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:55:15 +0000

In the football history of the Portuguese team the first participation in a world cup and the best result have been in the same edition: England 1966. In this year, the Selecção das Quinas has in its squad the player who, before Cristiano Ronaldo began to collect trophies, was the most important in the Portuguese history: Eusebio da Silva Ferreira. The Pearl of Mozambique won the Golden Ball in 1965, becoming the first African player in history to win this title. In the third match of the World Cup los Lusos won 3-1 against Pele and Garrincha’s Brazil, thanks to a double of the Black Panther. In the quarters against North Korea, Portugal are losing 3-0 until the Eusebio Show begins: he scores 4 goals and the Portuguese National Team wins 5-3. In the semi-final against the host England, Portugal lost 2-1, but in the final for third place scoring a penalty, Eusebio becomes the best score of the competition with 9 goals scored. To relive the legend of the Black Panther you can find the retro shirt of the Portugal of the 60s in the Retrofootball catalog.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Spain history: curses and victories

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:10:36 +0000

The Spanish team after the 2008-2012 winning season with the world cup and the two conquered European Cups then did 2 disappointing performances in Brazil 2014 and France 2016. According to the bookmakers, the Red Fury could reach the podium of this 2018 World Cup, thanks to a squad list that includes veterans like Sergio Ramos and Gerard Piqué, young players as Isco and Asensio, without forgetting Andrés Iniesta who said goodbye to Barça a short time ago. Andres was only a child when the "curse of the world cup quarterfinals" began for the Spanish. In Mexico '86 La Roja was eliminated on penalties for Belgium, 8 years later at USA '94 was the Baggios' Italy to eliminate Spain and finally they were eliminated once again on penalties in 2002 against South Korea after a strange game. Retrofootball® in view of the World Cup launches a new, historic shirt of La Roja: the 1988's version worn in the European Championship by Butragueño and his teammates is perfect for any occasion.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Uruguay National Team in the 70s

Thu, 31 May 2018 10:57:48 +0000

The 1970s represented a period of rebirth for the Celeste. Twenty years after the triumph in Brazil in 1950 (when happened the Maracanazo) the World Cup 70 in Mexico could have been the third success 20 years after the last one. The Uruguayan national meets the tough USSR in the second round and Esparrago scored the goal of the advantage in extra time at 117'. The Celeste then had to play the semi-final against Brazil of Pelé: both national teams counted 2 World Cup and Selecao wanted to avenge the Maracanazo. The Uruguay took the lead, but because of the fatigue due to the match of the second round, Brazil comeback 3-1 and will win in the final against Italy. At the World Championships in Germany '74, Uruguay came out in the first round against Joan Cruyff's Holland. For the occasion of the World Cup, Retrofootball has added to its catalog the retro shirt of the '70s of La Celeste with the typical sun-colored gold and the initials A.U.F .: Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Saudi Arabia at France WC 1998

Wed, 30 May 2018 10:30:03 +0000

Twenty years after the second qualification for the World Cup, Saudi Arabia will debut in Russia 2018 on June 14 against Russia. This represents the fifth participation of the Saudis, who managed to qualify for 4 consecutive times from '94 to 2006. In the World Cup of 1998 they played against France in the second game: in the 4-0 Henry scored twice but Zidane was expelled and disqualified for 2 games for stepping on the saudi Amin. The saudi national team with just 1 point came out as the last of the tournament. No one remains of that generation. In the last 20 years, Saudi Arabia has changed 25 coaches, the last one is Juan Antonio Pizzi. The argentinian coach who led Chile in the Copa América 2016 took charge shortly before the draw and could also count on Yahya Al-Shehri (Leganes) and Fahad Al-Muwallad (Levante) in midfield. While waiting to see where Saudi Arabia will arrive in the World Cup, Retrofootball launches the beautiful 1998 World Championship retro shirt: white with green collar and embroidery.

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Retro World Cup Stories - Egypt

Tue, 29 May 2018 09:17:13 +0000

Egypt is one of the outsiders of this World Cup in Russia, and the attention is all for the star Mohamed Salah: player revelation of this season in force to the Liverpool of Jurgen Klopp. The Pharaohs return to dispute the World Cup 27 years after their last participation (Italia 90).
In the history of the Egyptian soccer team stands out the African Cup in 1986 when it was Egypt that hosted the competition. The hosts were defeated at the debut but after passing the group as leaders defeated Morocco in the semifinals and finally triumphed on penalties against the tough Cameroon where Roger Milla played. The Egyptians thus won their third Africa Cup after the eliminations in the semi-finals in the previous editions of 1980 and 1984. Waiting for the 2018 World Championship, relive the history of the Pharaohs of football with the Egypt football team retro Shirt 1980's.

Retro World Cup Stories - Urss at 1982

Mon, 28 May 2018 12:31:50 +0000

Russia will host this World Cup and the national football team will debut next June 14 at the Lužniki Stadium in Moscow against Saudi Arabia. In the 80s the national football team of the USSR returned to compete in an international competition participating at the World Cup Espana ‘82 after a convincing qualifying phase. In Spain, the national team with the CCCP written on the shirt tested the Brazilian “Selecao” and passed the first phase, occupying the second place behind Brazil. This represents the first time in which the Soviets reach the final phase of the World Cup. The experience in Spain ended with a 0-0 draw in the last match of the second group stage against Poland: a game that was read as a political clash between the Kremlin and Solidarność (communist polish trade union).

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Retrofootball to be listed in Tiendeo's catalog

Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:30:07 +0000

At Retrofootball, the home of vintage football shirts, we are happy to announce that we are going to e listed in Tiendeo as part of their Christmas' gift catalog.

As we have mentioned before, football is our brand’s inspiration; to be part of this initiative we have selected the vintage shirt of East Germany in the 1974 World Cup. This is a symbolic shirt as the DDR team was able to beat the world champions (West Germany) in the first phase of the tournamente with an inspiring goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser.

Enjoy the Tiendeo's Christmas's gift catalog and get ready for the holiday season!

Cheers!

Retrofootball!

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:01:49 +0000

This is Retrofootball, the home of vintage football shirts, you can buy high quality retro shirts of worldwide football teams. Football is our brand’s inspiration.

We are pleased to present you our brand new European website that will cover countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Portugal or Belgium. At our shop you can buy high quality replica shirts and other football or casual street wear related products from vintage brands such as Copa, Le Coq Sportif or TOFFS.

We will keep you posted on our shop development, new products available and more retro football related stories through this blog. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us or comment in this blog.

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