The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF) revealed some stunning new away kits for Mexico’s national teams, dubbed the “México de oro“(Golden Mexico) kit. It’s one of the best kits in CONCACAF this year, if not the single best.
The kits were designed and will be worn for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which will take place in June in the United States.
The “México de oro” kit features gold accoutrements — gold logos, Adidas shoulder stripes, sleeve cuffs, and sock cuffs — on a black background, making it one of the most stylish kits El Tri have worn in recent history. “México de oro” is inscribed in gold on the inner back collar.
On Adidas’s Mexico website, the brand claims that the design was “inspired by Mexican music and art” and the FMF describes the kit in its press release as being “inspired by the golden age of Mexican cinema and regional Mexican music…”
To wit, the “México de oro” kit’s sublimated design and design on the sleeve cuffs is inspired by the patterns on the traditional outfits worn by mariachi performers, and the launch event was held at the National Film Archive and Screening Center in Mexico City.
In keeping with the theme of film, art, and music, FMF president Ivar Sisniega said:
“For us, wearing this collection in the upcoming matches is an honor. Bringing the passion of soccer to an international stage is like being part of a movie in which our Mexican heritage is told, not only through a script, but via every step, pass and shot on the field. We are thrilled that this collection captures all that our culture represents.”
It should go without saying that I love this kit. It’s sophisticated and classy, and the nods to mariachi give the kit an identity that’s undeniably Mexican. I rolled my eyes a bit at the links to film, but the mariachi inspiration is totally there. Plus, black and gold is just a killer color combo. It’s almost impossible to mess it up, and El Tri certainly didn’t do it here.
Notably, Adidas is using their trefoil logo on this kit, rather than their standard logo. It has been over thirty years since any Mexico kit has featured Adidas’s trefoil, which the brand has been bringing back for some alternate kits on the club side this year. El Tri actually achieved its greatest-ever World Cup result wearing Adidas’s trefoil, when they advanced to the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup, which Mexico was hosting. El Tri decamped for Umbro in 1992, and didn’t return to Adidas until 2007. The 1986 quarterfinal appearance is still the deepest El Tri have gone in the World Cup to date.
Though the “México de oro” kit is explicitly a kit for the CONCACAF Gold Cup later this year, it will actually make tis on-pitch debut in the coming days, when El Tri take on Canada in the CONCACAF Nations League this Thursday, March 21st.
More photos are below.
This is a really long article to say that Mexico released a BFBS kit.
Another BFBS kit.
Hmm… looks suspiciously similar to an LAFC shirt.
My thoughts exactly
socks are well done
Looks like something Drake would design for Canada.
And Mexico’s tie to black? And gold? Looks like merch dump to me. Much like most of the US’s kits. At least it’s not a cookie cutter template I guess. C+ for design alone.
And why isn’t this considered BFBS? Their colors are green, white, and red.
It’s traditional in soccer for the away uniform/”kit” to be in something other than team colors.
The big clubs worldwide have a new away uniform every season, and it’s never in the same color scheme as the previous season. That’s surely more than a little about merchandising, but the “change strip” has always been different colors than the team’s official colors.
I appreciate this insight! I knew Italy are the Azzurri and wear blue, but I didn’t know that was the norm.
Japan’s national teams wear blue as well. As with Italy, that is the dominant color on the home uniforms. Most nations use their flag colors in the national-team uniform; Japan and Italy are notable exceptions.
Japan and Italy wear blue as the primary color in their home uniforms. They are notable exceptions to the tradition of the national flag colors being used in the national-team uniform.
Don’t forget Nederlands
That is a sharp-looking away kit.
The mariachi detail reminds me of the best elements of the MLB City Connect uniforms: A distinctly local element, such as the Red Sox decked out in Boston Marathon colors, or the Brewers adding a Weber-type grill to the sleeve as a nod to their fans’ tailgating tradition.
Are you quite sure it’s an away kit? I can easily picture this as Mexico’s primary kit from now until next year’s World Cup.
No, throughout most of the entirety of it’s national team existence Mexico has always either used the colors Red, White Or Green as it’s primary colors for their Primary Kit only in recent years has the primary kit been black (such as in 2010, 2015, 2019, and most recently in 2021)
Mexico’s original shirt color was burgundy/maroon, with black or navy shorts. Their recent maroon kit, seen in that light, was an interesting throwback.
I could fall asleep to the white noise of discontented grumbling about BFBS. This is a gorgeous kit (in my opinion, of course). That said, as others have pointed out, LAFC does already have a kit that looks just like this.
While the kit’s resemblance to that of LAFC is obvious — and this is not directed at you, Dave — so what?
Mexico’s national team is arguably the second-most popular soccer team in the United States; if you’ve ever seen El Tri play in the U.S., you’ll know what rock stars they are to Mexican-Americans. It’s why the USMNT started having its home matches with Mexico in places such as Columbus, so that it wouldn’t feel like a Mexico home game.
I would suggest the Mexican federation couldn’t care less if this uniform resembles that of any MLS club, because the Mexican national team is bigger than all of them.
my prediction is that these are good fillers, but for 26 wc mexico will recreate 98 aztec green, usmnt will recreate 94 denim, and canada will have create something new. just a thought!
Gorgeous Away Kits? Okay, then. The never ending editorializing of the UW.
Maybe try… Mexico plays no attention to their red/green/white symbolism but kicks the tires on an LAFC wannabe.
> complains about “editorializing”
> suggests even more editorialized headline
“Keep opinions out of media unless I agree with them”
Good lord lots of gripes in the comments today. A team having a second kit that doesn’t match the home colors in any way is pretty par for the course.
If away kits are not tradition-bound (like, say, the Yankees’ grey uniforms), then these are excellent. For home kits, the bar should be higher.
“ it will actually make TIS on-pitch debut…”
Phil, you’re right! The Dutch turn out in orange, not a color in their flag.
A high-profile example of this in rugby in New Zealand, aka the All Blacks.
Australia too, yes?
India as well. While they are adding saffron, white, and green as accents, their main sporting color is blue.
Looking at the first photo, for some reason I thought it was dark green and absolutely loved it for that. Now I see that it’s black, which isn’t one of Mexico’s traditional colors. I still like the black, but now I can’t help wondering what a real dark green kit with gold would look like.