World Cup Thumbs Preview

 A preview of some thumbnails I have produced for the upcoming FIFA World Cup.

GNK Dinamo Zagreb

Croatia (Hrvatska)

I suppose I should post something.

Well as promised I will explain that ghastly last set of kits, just looking at them again now and they aren't pretty are they, not sure what I was attempting but here goes nothing, I'll try and explain it.

It started by just putting a few lines together in photoshop, see if something would work and look right. Once I got that "right" I set about changing the cut of the shirt which was quite stale and sameish in a lot of my previous kits. I also wanted to try a something little different for the collar, well, different for me anyway. So I decided on a fold collar with extra detail I guess you would call it, beneath the collar itself kind of reminiscent of what Real Madrid used on their centenary kits, just a bit more shit though. I also wanted to add in some sort of design feature that would stay with the design along the range of teams I would make with it. For this I decided the hoops I used on Club Africain would be an ideal choice (on the underside of the sleeves only) and I still stand by this decision, even though it has been criticised a bit. This is why there are hoops on the Atlas kits which don't have a tradition of using them.

I did buckle however when I was making these Dinamo Zagreb kits and change the hoops to checkers to fit in with their rich history in Croatia. I chose Dinamo (not to offend them with this shite template) because they are another team which are a bit special to me. I once sneaked into their Maximir Stadium, not when any games were on, but when it was abandoned, it was quite an experience that's for sure, and this Dinamo caravan is an enduring image which is definitely going to stay with me for a long time. Another reason is that the place I was staying in Zagreb was of course ran by Dinamo fans and because I showed an interest in Dinamo they gave me lots of free beer and were very funny people!

Dinamo are of course one of the strongest and most popular teams in Croatia, only rivalled really by Hajduk Split. They have produced a lot of Croatia's most talented players definitely names you'll recognise include Davor Šuker, Zvonimir Boban and a few more modern ones like Luka Modrić, Vedran Ćorluka and Ivica Olić but the biggest legend of all features on the back of the shirt. :-D

My version of the kit contains all the league sponsors which featured on their most recent kit, this is a sad reflection on how much Croatian football needs to advertise to keep its clubs running especially due to their most talented players being poached early by the bigger foreign clubs which in turn means poor performances in European competition, if they had all the players they had produced still with them then they would definitely be consistently making the group stages of the Champions League or the latter stages of the Europa League. I have used silver instead of white as the secondary colour as it just makes a change and Dinamo have used it before while with umbro and it looked pretty good to me.


The away kit is an orange number, simply because they had an orange away kit last season, other than that their is no real reason. Laziness.

Hrvatska & NEC Nijmegen

I've done it again haven't I? Taken a while to post something new that is, I do have my reasons though, been swamped with work recently so not even been able to manage some middle of the day browsing of websites as you do when you get tired the tediousness of work.

Well today I have Croatian kits or more specifically those of the national team. Also I have kits of NEC Nijmegen to show.

First we'll start off with the Croatia kits, I'm sure you all know who they are or you wouldn't of found this page otherwise. It uses the exact same design as I used for Beşiktaş so I don't even need to explain that! My job here just gets easier and easier. Not really mush to explain anyway just red and white checks with a blue and gold trim in places. The away is pretty much typical Croatia too, I did start off trying to make an away Croatia kit with out using blue but I found this really hard to do making it both aesthetically pleasing and also representative of Croatia. So in the end I just reverted back to a blue kit, I'm a coward.

Oh by the way, it has been pointed out to me previously I have used the wrong diacritic above the 'c' in Modrić that'll teach me to write Croatian names without checking first.


Now I got a few complaints about the home kit that it was a bit too much of an eyesore with almost totally checkered design so I came up with this, which is inspired from Lotto's 98 Croatia design which I thought was great being mainly white.


Now time for Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie or NEC as they're more oftenly called, so by calling them NEC Nijmegen I have made a bit of a fool of myself, oh well shit happens. They have one of the more unique coloured home kits in world football which makes them a prime target for me as I like the uniqueness. The design itself you may recognize if you have looked further back in my blog, as it is actually taken and adapted from the 'Kappa' design. I've kept it pretty traditional to the team, with the red and green halves, I have also continued onto this sleeves, I don't have much of a memory of NEC kits but I think this is unique (have I said that enough already?). On the back of the shirt is the crest of Nijmegen just as a nice uniq... individual feature.

Legea - again

As I promised you, a few more Legea kits.

Something old...

Well as I've not created anything recently, not without a lack of try might I add, I thought I should show you some of the stuff I did for FIFA'07. When you think about it their isn't really a whole lot different between the two styles of now and then, just with the FIFA kits I had to make sure everything was in place under the arms and stuff you cant even see in the 2D version.

These are the first ones I found and as you can see I enjoyed making kits for the not so popular teams back then and even teams that were not in the game just the the follow St. Pauli and Dinamo Zagreb kits.

Not much else to saw other than here they are.