Botswana Umbro Home shirt

This is another cheap pick up from m and m direct for an Umbro Botswana shirt.  I previously tried one from global jerseys and it was likely to be a fake and the sizing seemed to have been extra large even though it was supposedly a medium.  This is suppose to be a genuine replica from Umbro sold as end of stock cheap be a reputable online retailer.  Lets see is it any good.  The shirt itself looked really good in the stock pictures, it horse / zebra silhouette looked really good.  The dancing zebra.  However, I felt in real life the shirt is not quite as good.

The crest is nice and I like the zebra.

Here is where I think there was a fault with the shirt, the label's embroidery seemed to be a bit warped and mangled and you can see the squeeze.

The sleeves is also a little bit out

Nice flag of Botswana here.

From the back it shows the Zebras and pretty standard fair.

This was not a bad pick, material wise it is OK.  The fit itself seems OK too.

 

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.

 

Santos Umbro Shirt 2021

This is a really nice Santos away shirt again picked up from m and m direct. 

Again the crest and label are embroidered, therefore can take many more washes.

Nice crest. 

Now this shirt has a narrower shoulder and sleeve giving it a closer fit than the Chapecoense shirt. It is somewhat interesting the same manufacturer in this case Umbro can have 3 different size cuts where they are almost a whole size different in shape yet they are all S. This one is the one in the middle while the Chapecoense shirt is largest while the Cruzeiro shirt is the smallest. 

Again this is fantastic material and looks good to wear. 

I guess this print at the back is most likely to fall off after several washes. 

 

Chapecoense Umbro Shirt 2021

This was a very nice Chapecoense Umbro shirt.  Having now seen many Brazilian manufactured shirts, I can conclude that while many of them have great designs, the majority of Brazilian brands have labels and crests because they were not embroider, they don't last as many washes as you would expect before the labels wear out. That is why when the shirts are made by Umbro, Nike or Adidas, they tend to have less of this issue as they tend to use embroider methods.

 

This was a bargain picked up at M and M Direct who seemed to have gotten hold of some of these Brazilian club shirts and they are made in Brazil is well.  This sample had embroider crest and brand logo so it should last longer.

 

The sleeve shape and Umbro patterns are nice, for me the shoulder cut is a bit on the big side. 

 

As usual, the material used by Umbro is very nice to wear. 

 

It is a very fine looking shirt, just a bit too big in the shoulders for me for that nice fit. 

Botswana Umbro shirt

This is another one from https://global-jerseys.com/ they are quite a site for these cool African teams.

This is a quite a design by Umbro on Botswana.  Its design like a zebra.

Now here is one thing, that I noticed, you can see this sample the inside is white while on many stock photos and even on CFS, it is blue.  Does this mean this is from another line?  Also shirt has no inner labels of any kind.  Does not say where its made in.

This shirt is very big even for a Medium and it is somewhat like the Benin Umbro shirt.  The material is rather similar.

The crest is transferred onto the material rather than part of it.

It looks like the real thing if it is not the real thing.  

 Overall, it is a very distinctive looking shirt and another one for the collection.  

Benin Umbro shirt

This is quite cool and always like an African country's shirt.   

The whole shirt has no embroidery and all are in printed into the material. 

Including the cuffs.  All same layer.. And that is something not seen from Umbro before.  This did come from a so called team wear label bag. 

In printed into the material. 

The label is the only bit that is transferred onto the material. 

The nice colours. 

The material is OK, very standard feel for Umbro not the best I have seen from them.  But it's a cool rare release. 

 

Cruzeiro Umbro 19 shirt

This is a Cruzeiro shirt that will probably be forever stigmatised as its the one worn this season that resulted in the club's relegation to Brazil Serie B, first time in its history.

But I like it very much.  Perhaps if I wear it it will give them good luck to bounce back.

The shirt has a nice material, its a good Umbro Brazil make like some of the other good shirts they do.

The southern cross is just so cool and the stars in the background just gives the shirt a subtle sublime message.  The sleeves are well sized too.

Southern Cross crest again.  Wicked.

Overall I like it very much.  It also wears a bit like their Sada Cruzeiro volleyball team shirt being quite snug fit.  I hope they get back to Serie A soon.