We’re at the end of the African road, at least as far as Puma goes, and thus that precocious little fennec is the last you’ll get to see peeking at you from across the shoulder. A bit sad, isn’t it?
I know very little about Algerian fashion. However, I do know a little something about Firefox’s logo – having seen it before and all that – and I can comfortably say that with a slight color tweak, Algeria’s going to make an awful lot of money selling these bad boys onto Mozilla once they’re done.
Want one? Buy your Algeria World Cup home shirt in our store.
Plain, plain, plain vanilla. All white with accented rings around the end of the sleeve and the fennec in the corner. In other words, they made one base shirt for Ghana and Algeria and varied it slightly in crest, mascot and accent color.
The problem is they both look good, and the fox in the corner looking at you for that piece of bread in your hand does enough to detract from what could arguably be a much better shirt. So instead of wondering why Puma saved the money on a highly individualized shirt, you’re left thinking “I wonder if I can sneak one of those past customs as a pet”.
Probably not, but you can at least download Firefox.
Want one? Buy your Algeria World Cup away shirt in our store.
It’s a break, if a slight break, from the Puma away line in that the lines do not look hand-painted, but rather off the press, as they are. Yet like so many of the Puma African kits, it seems almost the bastard lovechild of the other African away kits, such as the green and white stripe of Cote d’Ivoire and the thin red stripe of Cameroon.
Generally, you’d chalk it up to laziness and production costs and move on, but here it may be down to something different – perhaps that African unity they’ve been on about. In that case, that special circumstance, dropping a neighborly bread crumb behind might just have a touch of genius about it.
(So long as it’s intentional.)