Next season will see Roma back in adidas kits for the first time in 19 years.
The club wore the three stripes for a three-year period after finishing with Ennerre and the leaks of next season’s home shirt look promising.
It feels apposite, therefore, to look back two decades and wonder how things might have been if they had stayed with the German firm rather than moving to Asics in the summer of 1994.
At a time when adidas Equipment excesses were blatana, Roma’s home kits were somewhat anachronistic, retaining the trefoil logo and shoulder stripes.
Therefore, a putative 1994-95 home remains understated, borrowing the design that had the stripes around the ends of the sleeves and shorts, popularised by Rangers’ home kit and Bayern Munich’s 1995-96 third. Insurance firm Nuova Tirrena had replaced food company Barilla as sponsors, with their logo rendered in white.
Like Milan, Roma almost always have a white change strip, trimmed in their giallorossi colours.
The 1993-94 away had belatedly employed the Equipment stylings (but not its logo) and the evolution on from that that we have chosen is the three columns of diamonds as used by Spain, France, Norway (away), Panathinaikos and Legia Warsaw among others.
There was no Roma third strip in 1994-95 – Asics would go on to use green in 1995-96 and yellow/orange in 1996-97 before Diadora then experimented with dark grey.
In skewing history a little bit, we have indulged ourself by including one and, given that it’s adidas, an ancestor of the navy 1991-92 one-off seems like the best option. The Germany 1994 ‘eagle’ design is the one chosen.
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lovely stuff