Racing Club Create Breastfeeding Football Shirt
In a first for the football kit world, Racing Club have produced a shirt designed specifically to facilitate breastfeeding.
Racing Club Breastfeeding shirt
Argentinian side Racing Club have designed a football shirt specially adapted to allow for more comfortable breastfeeding. In the launch video, several Racing-supporting mothers talk about the stigma that is still attached to public breastfeeding and how it is not yet fully accepted in society, despite being the most natural thing in the world and a basic necessity.
Sentimos orgullo por presentarles esta camiseta, el mismo orgullo que sentimos por transmitir tanto amor.
— Racing Club (@RacingClub) October 22, 2022
Encontrala muy pronto en @LocademiaRacing pic.twitter.com/oq5QSYx42z
The purpose-made shirt has been produced using the club's Kappa home shirt and has a strategically placed opening between two overlapping layers, allowing babies to access the mother's breast in a way that's comfortable and practical, all while showing support for Racing.
The club say that they have made the design available to any club in the world so that others can follow in their footsteps.
Although breastfeeding clothing using the same basic concept have existed for a while, it is the first time it has been applied to a football kit. Do you think more clubs will follow their lead? Comment below.
Nottingham Forest Women Wear Training Tops vs Southampton to Avoid Color Blindness Clash
In an unusual kit occurrence, Nottingham Forest Women took to the pitch wearing training tops instead of their official 26-27 away kit during their match against Southampton Women at St Mary's Stadium on Sunday. The late switch was implemented specifically to avoid color blindness visibility issues that would have arisen from a red-versus-green clash. Huge thanks to @david_g_cooper for the spot.
With Southampton wearing their traditional red-and-white home kit, Nottingham Forest's primary alternative option - their green 26-27 away shirt - posed a serious dilemma. Red and green kit pairings are strictly discouraged by governing bodies and accessibility guidelines because they become indistinguishable to individuals with red-green color vision deficiency, which affects roughly 8% of men and 0.5% of women.
Since Nottingham Forest's home shirt is also red, the club resorted to dark training gear with match numbers applied on the back to provide adequate contrast for players, referees, and spectators.
Forest could have worn their light blue kit, but apparently they did not bring it.
Dominik Szoboszlai Reveals Nike Air Max 95 'Liverpool'
Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai has officially debuted the upcoming Nike Air Max 95 'Liverpool', a special-edition release designed in partnership with JD Sports ahead of their annual 1.10 Day celebration. Deeply rooted in local street culture, where the model has long been nicknamed the '110' after its original UK retail price, the sneaker is packed with bespoke details paying tribute to Merseyside. The shoe features mismatched accents of dockland-inspired 'Rust Factor' orange alongside 'Steam' green referencing the city's Liver Birds, complemented by a reflective brick pattern, a River Mersey map printed across the insole, a custom 'Liverpool' tongue badge, and 'SCOUSE' lettering visible beneath the outsole.
