Izuchukwu OkosiKits manufacturer, Nike, has designed new sets of national team jerseys for the Super Eagles to be launched in the international friendlies against Ghana and Mali on Friday and next week Tuesday, reports Prime Business Africa.
The new home and away jerseys come with a captivating and unique style and contemporary edge and bear some semblance of recent world-class designs that most football teams and fans adore.
Interestingly, the home jerseys in the new Nike designs are of the white colour which previously was the country’s away jersey.
The away jersey is now the green-coloured with both sets of jerseys having the name NAIJA inscribed on the football crest on the front rather than Nigeria written in full..
The jerseys were unveiled on the X (Twitter) handle of the Sports Kits company
The home jersey features a simple white design with green tape adorning the edges of the sleeves and shorts, and the Nike logo positioned above the ‘NAIJA’ emblem.
Nike matches the Nigeria 2024 home football shirt with clean white shorts and socks, ensuring a sleek and cohesive appearance on the field.
The Nigeria 2024 away kit showcases a bold green graphic pattern, distinguishing it from past designs with its unique style. Nike Designs New Jerseys For Super Eagles.
The idea behind having the white coloured jersey as the new home kit rather than the green might be unconnected to the superstitious belief by some sections of Nigerians that the white colour does not have the same lucky charm as the green one.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
