Images of Kaizer Chiefs’ new Kappa package has been leaked on social media…and lots of followers assume it’s a near-identical look to the Springboks’ new jerseys.
The soccer jersey – reportedly for the 23/24 season – marks the return of the Italian sportswear sponsor after greater than 20 years of Nike designs.
In the meantime, the Springboks additionally not too long ago confirmed off their new kits, breaking away from Asics to hitch Nike.
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KAIZER CHIEFS VS SPRINGBOKS?
This week, an image of the house and away Kaizer Chiefs package appeared on social media.
The house package – which boasted the crew’s official colors of yellow and black – was harking back to earlier Kappa designs from the 90s.
Nonetheless, the away package was a very new search for Amakhosi followers. With yellow and inexperienced, the jersey carefully resembled the Springboks’ new Nike package.
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And Kaizer Chiefs followers had been simply as confused…
@Phemelo_Mufasa: “Springboks or Kaizer Chiefs? I don’t see any distinction”
@SuperXolani: “Rugby jersey, this one!”
@IdentityJoy: “It’s giving Springboks?”
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Yima, Kaizer Chiefs they are going to be enjoying rugby this season? pic.twitter.com/S3P2pZ77N3
— Mpiyakhe (@MangoeleRichard) July 12, 2023
I believed its for SA rugby crew pic.twitter.com/TcKWlIoryb
— Licensed Bishop RSA🇿🇦 (@CertifiedBishop) July 12, 2023
That is Boks package mos pic.twitter.com/LMsZIgZKTF
— Mpemvu Jali Mntlotshane (@BhutiJali) July 12, 2023
HOME KIT GETS THE THUMBS UP
In the meantime, the leaked house Kaizer Chiefs kits had been in comparison with a nostalgic look from the 90s.
And maybe, that’s exactly the look Kappa – which sponsored the groups’ 1989 – 1996 appears to be like – was going for.
Final 12 months, Amakhosi advertising director Jessica Motaung mentioned on their partnership in a assertion: “We’re excited to crew up with Kappa as soon as once more, a model with which Kaizer Chiefs set new information and established itself as trendsetters in African soccer within the early Nineties.”
Kappa South Africa CEO Michael Joseph added that the model was assured it could restore the crew’s glory days, as beforehand skilled.
He added: “Kappa, along with Kaizer Chiefs, are going to reinstall the romance of the Nineties and ship one thing extraordinary to those followers.”
