Kevin Tanza

I Hope It’s Not Real – Fans Divided Over Leaked Italy Home Kit For 2026 World Cup

Adidas, Football Kits, Italy National Football Team

Italy has produced many footballers who have changed the game in their own way, and others who are considered some of the best players of all time. Goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards, Italy has known how to produce footballers and are easily considered among the best national teams of the 20th century. However, since their last World Cup win, in 2006, Italy has suffered a significant decline and has not been able to achieve the same success as before.

This has been reflected in their failure to qualify for the last two World Cups, in 2018 and 2022. Seeing Italy eliminated from the World Cup, despite the fact that it has already happened twice in a row in the last two World Cups, is something we have yet to get used to.

Italy is a team that’s always missed at the World Cup. Its defensive and aggressive style of play was synonymous with the greatest football of the 1990s. It’s not as effective now as it was 30 years ago, but there are still those who miss it.

And of course, also because there are currently many world-class Italian footballers who are missing out on playing with the national team in a World Cup, and we need to see this. But the team knows this, which is why they’re preparing as best they can to qualify for another World Cup. It’s incredible to think they haven’t played in one since 2014, despite having won the UEFA Euro back in 2020.

And yes, the Italian national team is preparing hard and is already thinking and assuring that they will qualify for the next World Cup, in 2026. Currently, Italy is third in its group behind Norway and Israel, but they have a chance to qualify if they put their mind to it.

And because they’re certain they’ll qualify; they’ve already designed the shirt they’ll wear in this World Cup. They haven’t presented it publicly, but there have been leaks about it already, and it’s already been posted on Twitter (now X). This is the shirt:

The design of this jersey, which features a combination of blue and gold, is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their legendary last World Cup victory, in 2006 in Germany.

The shirt, which we don’t know if it’s the final version or not, has taken many fans of the “Azzurri” by surprise and like everything in the world. When it comes to the design, it obviously maintains the national team’s signature dark blue while adding the golden Adidas stripes on the shoulders. The neck portion of the kit also features some gold and black lines that are emphasized. They also added the thick Adidas stripes throughout the blue portion of the kit.

The reactions have been mixed, though. Some fans believe that it doesn’t do justice to the legacy of Italy as a national team and that it simply doesn’t capture the ideal look of their kit, using other models as an example in the process.

Others simply did not like the design and hope that is not real.

There are also those who feel that releasing a shirt for the 2026 World Cup without officially qualifying is too hasty, and they have made memes about it.

There are also others who simply think it looks good.

Be that as it may, it is a new kit from one of football’s most important countries. If anything, this leaked kit serves as a way to gauge people’s opinions regarding Adidas’ work with Italy thus far and a reminder that the national team needs to qualify for the World Cup in the remaining dates.

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