The World Cup kicks off on Thursday, June 14, which means that those of us who prefer to spend our weekend afternoons inside sort-of-gross bars will have something exciting to watch for these specific four weeks of midsummer. And if you don’t know a lot about the non-American kind of football, it also means that we’ll be seeing a lot of unstintingly attractive men wearing a wide array of shirts.
My first thought upon seeing this year’s jerseys, however, was that they ... sort of suck? I mean, if I were designing jerseys for the 32 best soccer teams in the world, my mood board would be a mashup of, like, vintage superhero uniforms and some weird Gucci-esque floral print. Instead, about half of them are basically just big red shirts!
