America de Cali, red, L 23" p2p, 27"s2h, 34"c2c
The first time Colombian football ever really registered with me was in the build up to the 1990 World Cup. Colombia hadn’t qualified for the ‘82 or ‘86 tournaments so I was really interested to watch them play. I fell in love with their style it was a Sunday morning practice match knocking the ball around with such freedom. That was it. I was a fan. I bought a fantastic book called The Beautiful Game by Chris Taylor. It’s a journey through South American football and includes a chapter on Colombian football. It was a real education on the evolution of football in Colombia and how in the 1980’s each leading drug cartel in each major city pretty much took control of the bigger football clubs. In Cali one of the leaders of the local cartel openly controlled America de Cali. I started looking at the old shirts of America de Cali and it was the club badge that I loved. The devil character was introduced in 1940 because it was said the team played like devils. The devil was removed from the club badge because of pressure from the church but but thankfully it’s now back where it belongs as the club badge. I bloody love it how simple the graphic is.
Hand screen printed on a preloved vintage red sweatshirt, with gold ink.
Measures: 23” pit to pit, 27” shoulder to hem and 34”collar to cuff.
The first time Colombian football ever really registered with me was in the build up to the 1990 World Cup. Colombia hadn’t qualified for the ‘82 or ‘86 tournaments so I was really interested to watch them play. I fell in love with their style it was a Sunday morning practice match knocking the ball around with such freedom. That was it. I was a fan. I bought a fantastic book called The Beautiful Game by Chris Taylor. It’s a journey through South American football and includes a chapter on Colombian football. It was a real education on the evolution of football in Colombia and how in the 1980’s each leading drug cartel in each major city pretty much took control of the bigger football clubs. In Cali one of the leaders of the local cartel openly controlled America de Cali. I started looking at the old shirts of America de Cali and it was the club badge that I loved. The devil character was introduced in 1940 because it was said the team played like devils. The devil was removed from the club badge because of pressure from the church but but thankfully it’s now back where it belongs as the club badge. I bloody love it how simple the graphic is.
Hand screen printed on a preloved vintage red sweatshirt, with gold ink.
Measures: 23” pit to pit, 27” shoulder to hem and 34”collar to cuff.
The first time Colombian football ever really registered with me was in the build up to the 1990 World Cup. Colombia hadn’t qualified for the ‘82 or ‘86 tournaments so I was really interested to watch them play. I fell in love with their style it was a Sunday morning practice match knocking the ball around with such freedom. That was it. I was a fan. I bought a fantastic book called The Beautiful Game by Chris Taylor. It’s a journey through South American football and includes a chapter on Colombian football. It was a real education on the evolution of football in Colombia and how in the 1980’s each leading drug cartel in each major city pretty much took control of the bigger football clubs. In Cali one of the leaders of the local cartel openly controlled America de Cali. I started looking at the old shirts of America de Cali and it was the club badge that I loved. The devil character was introduced in 1940 because it was said the team played like devils. The devil was removed from the club badge because of pressure from the church but but thankfully it’s now back where it belongs as the club badge. I bloody love it how simple the graphic is.
Hand screen printed on a preloved vintage red sweatshirt, with gold ink.
Measures: 23” pit to pit, 27” shoulder to hem and 34”collar to cuff.