The differently colored stripes symbolise 'Colours Beyond the Horizon', with the stripe graphic featuring 12 colours: 11 colours representing each player, while the central red stripe symbolises the Japanese football family, which is a really nice added touch.
The home jersey is an iconic Canadian red featuring a big, stemless maple leaf in the middle. The position and shape of the leaf bears resemblance to the hockey jersey worn during the 1972 Summit Series. Unlike the aforementioned hockey jersey, the World Cup jersey is split down the middle and has a two-tone colour scheme, while a red pair of shorts complements the jersey.
U.S. Soccer just dropped its new USMNT team kits this week ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and they're instant classics. If you expected the usual home whites and away reds or blues, hold on. This time around they went for it. We are given two kits, two distinct personalities, and a design process that actually involved the players who'll be wearing them.
The new design features a streaked old royal' blue pattern on a black base, but leaves much of the central area beneath the badge plain. Neon yellow highlights adorn the shoulders, matching the badge, whilst there are teal tinges in the side panels. A little Vai Brasa' (Go, Brazil) logo on the inside of the collar is a nice touch.
WNBA expansion team the Portland Fire has unveiled its inaugural game jerseys. The white home jersey has Fire emblazoned on the front, and the away red jersey showcases the city's name. The secondary logo is PDX, shorthand for the city, with the P as an outline of Mt. Hood and design of the P and D reflecting the flow of the Willamette River.
United States midfielder Croix Bethune has joined the Kansas City Current, and USWNT midfielder Claire Hutton has joined Bay FC, in a pair of separate seven-figure moves, multiple sources have confirmed to ESPN. Kansas City will pay the Washington Spirit $1 million total for the transfer of Bethune, while Bay FC will pay the Current $1.1 million total in a separate transaction. Both players are young, rising stars with the USWNT and had previously only played for one NWSL club.