Sierra Leone Umbro Away shirt

This was another nice interesting bargain, it is supposed to be an Away or third shirt of Sierra Leone and it is made by Umbro.  I think you have to appreciate brands like Umbro do at least make a bit more effort for teams and national teams that aren't exactly the most well know while the likes of Nike, Adidas likes to resort to forcing these teams to have just a template shirt. 

At least Umbro made a nice pattern to show the vibrancy of an African nation.  Its a pretty cool graphic when seen from an angle, kind of trippy in a way too.

Good old crest, nicely embroidered together with the Umbro logo so no risk of it falling off easily after a thousand washes.

The sleeve is pretty standard, could have been a bit narrower to give that nice snug more athletic fit or added a bit of a trim design to make it cooler.

See what I meant about the pattern being quite trippy

Plain green from the back.  No surprises.  Overall a decent shirt and material is good to wear as coming from Umbro.

 

Mali Airness Away shirt

Finally, I am able to get hold of a genuine Airness brand shirt and I am not disappointed.  Airness is a French sports brand and has been the exclusive sponsor of Mali national team's shirt for many years.  This Mali away shirt is very nice and I will tell you why.

Here is the labels and it is a very nice tag with all the letters in French written on it. 

Pretty much an iconic Malian symbol.

The crest is cool.  Only downside is it is not embroided and it is super glued onto the material, a bit like some of the Puma offerings in past and I know these can peel off after a lot of washes, but lets see how it lasts.

The Airness is embroidered, now that is a nice cat.

The fit of the shirt is skinny so very snug sleeves which makes it look good when wearing.

Nice motto.

Nice from the back also.  Overall, very happy with this shirt, well worth the wait.  The material is quite nice too, it feels light to wear and it does show up the fakes's lesser material quite badly in this case.