2010/2011 Jersey Unveiled

With the champagne still popping, LFV unveiled next years jersey. The jersey itself is an homage to the team who won Benfica's first European Cup, what is known today as the Champions League.
50 years later, Benfica in conjunction with Adidas decided to pay tribute to perhaps one of the best European teams of that decade.
The design is still modern, but there are details which clearly invoke the jersey made immortal by Eusebio and company.
The emblem is now backed by a white background with 1 star on top of the emblem. The star obviously represents the title, the emblem with the white background intends to emulate the old jerseys, in which the emblem itself was sown on a patch, which in turn was sown on the shirt itself.


The collar and the sleeve trim are also reminiscent of the 1960 jersey, but the biggest retro detail has to be the emblem. I like the touch, but personally i think it has an odd shape compared to the 50 year old jersey. I'm also having a hard time digesting the disappearance of the 3 stars, which i had grown accustomed to, and is always an indicator of our superiority to our adversaries.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use this version for the Champions league and change up the emblem for domestic competition.

The other bone i have to pick is the continuation of the blue "TMN" logo, is there no one in the club's upper echelon that can tell the sponsor the logo needs to be changed to accommodate the teams colors?
It doesn't seem all that far fetched, after all, there are teams throughout Europe who have remained true to their colors and have "forced" their main sponsor to conform to the uniform color scheme.


The other thing that's bugging me is the emblem detail, where have the colors gone? WTF? It seems all too rushed out, but how can this detail be missed? I understand that 50 represents gold, and perhaps the gold and red are to represent that, but i still feel that changing it up goes against everything that is sacred to us, our emblem.

Perhaps, some changes will still be made, nonetheless, there's already a place reserved for this beauty in my collection .



Here's the original