Here it is, my newest pride and joy in terms of football shirts, it is the new Spain Goalkeeper shirt for 2011-13, i.e. the one worn in the Euro 2012 competition.

As I have done for a few years now, I bought this direct from Spain, since you cannot get them here in the UK (not that I have ever seen). I could of got this last week, but I held off, because I wanted to wait for the place to get the official printing so I could have it printed, which this is.

Number 1 and Casillas of course Something interesting about the printing…Casillas has “I Casillas” printed (i.e. Iker Casillas) on this shirt, something he has never had before for Spain. I noticed that it was printed this way against England, instead of just “Casillas”. I am unsure as to why this is, and if he will have the “I Casillas” printing on his shirts in the future for Spain, but this one has that. I know some players do have this, e.g. A.Iniesta, and Torres used to have F.Torres; But Casillas has never had this to my knowledge.

Here is the back:

I really like the design. The numbers look plain and boring from a distance, but they are a little bit graphical. The actual shirt itself is a nice design, with the star for the World Champions of course, all these Spain shirts are made primary for the Euro’s, in the neckline it has the “Campeones De Europa” (european champions) wording with the years, and this shirt lacks the world cup winners gold badge the previous shirt had, something which will probably return for the shirt they have during the next world cup.

Here are some close up pics, so you can see all the details.

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The new Spain shirt got announced late last week, and I was going to blog about it, but then they released it quite quickly, I think it has been available to buy since yesterday.

Since I am a massive Spain fan I HAD to get it as quick as possible, and managed to get it today! How cool?

I like the shirt, it is clean, sleek and simple. I got it so early, so had to pay quite a big price, £50, but that is still cheaper than £65 which Adidas are charging if you order it direct from them.

I will also get the Goalkeeper shirt, as has become tradition since 2008, but I have to order that from Spain and have it shipped from Spain.

What do you think?

Here is the official promo shot…

GK Shirt looks good, I can’t wait to get it, hopefully next week

Big Big game on Saturday! It is England vs Spain at Wembley, with a 17:15 kick off. I tried to get tickets a while back, could not find a place which was selling the Spain tickets (in the Spain end) then yesterday I found that you can buy them on the English F.A. site! Too late now I think.

The Spain squad is pretty strong, a few names missing but otherwise it is a great squad.

Casillas, Reina, Valdes 

Ramos, Arbeloa, Puyol, Pique, Alba, Albiol, Monreal

 Xavi, Alonso, Busquets, Cazorla, Martinez, Fabregas, Iniesta, Navas, Silva

Villa, Torres, Llorente, Mata.

And the England Squad

Hart, Carson, Stockdale

 G Johnson, Jones, Cahill, Terry, Cole, Baines, Jagielka, Lescott, Walker

Lampard, Rodwell, Downing, Barry, A Johnson, Milner, Parker, Walcott

Bent, Sturridge, Agbonlahor, Zamora, Welbeck

Looks pretty poor in comparison

Spain will also play Costa Rica on Tuesday, and England will play Sweden.

Hello blog

Today its international football day. Soon it is England vs Switzerland, and later tonight its USA vs Spain. How strange, almost a year ago in the world cup it was England vs USA and Spain vs Switzerland…Its been reversed! So if those results are anything to go by, Switzerland will beat England 1-0 and Spain will draw with USA 1-1.

Its pretty rubbish, there is hardly any TV coverage for the game; It doesnt seem like any Spanish TV channel has it, but its on TV10 in Sweden, Visat Football in Norway, Deima in Bulgaria and Al Jazeera Sport. I have none of those channels

Congrats to Liechtenstein, who won only their 4th ever competitive match beating Lithuania 2-0. They are both in the Spain qualifying group.

My Spain away GK Shirt. I remember searching the globe (literally) for this shirt. I finally got it and was over the moon Imported from Spain after finding a company who would ship to the UK, and it cost just around €100, but well worth it

p.s. I am wearing Boss Bottled Night… I smell so damn good! I love it

I wrote a few days ago that Spain had been invited to the Copa América as a guest team, as Japan have pulled out. Today they confirmed that they have declined the invitation, and put it down to scheduling problems, however they say they would consider invitations in the future.

Its sort of sad, I would of liked to have seen Spain in another tournament this year, it would have made it 4 years of summer football in a row; Euro 2008, Confederations Cup 2009, World Cup 2010, Copa América 2011. It would also mean Spain playing summer football for further years in a row too, with Euro 2012, Confederations cup 2013 and World Cup 2014, we could of seen Spain playing almost every summer for a while in competitive football.

You can read the official statement from RFEF here.

With that being said, would Spain have picked a full strength squad for the Copa América? Argentina and Brazil have both opted out of that in recent tournaments.

In other related news, Spain remain top of the World Rankings, Netherlands 2nd and Brazil moving upto 3rd. Italy regained their top 10 status after 7 months of being outside the top 10 and climb to 9th. France are clinging onto 19th place, and England remain 6th.

Yes, that is right! Spain have officially been invited to take part in Copa America this year, and if they accepted, would make them the first European team to participate in Copa America.

Vicente Del Bosque has said he is open to the idea, in which Spain would take Japan’s place as an invitee should they withdraw because of the earthquake/tsunami which hit Japan last month.

I am undecided if I would be happy with Spain going. It would be good, because its a football tournament I would be interested in watching in the Summer, since we have none this year. It would bring the appeal back to the tournament for all of Europe, in recent times I havent bothered to watch, because all the squads are rubbish, hardly any European based players are picked for Brazil or Argentina. That could also mean that the stars of Spain dont get picked either.

So, I dont know if this will be a good idea for Spain to go.

The decision will be made on 14th April.

Hey blog!

Its that time again, International football time So for me that’s Spain vs Columbia in Madrid, and on my TV. The game is on TVEi which I am able to watch, so I cant wait for that. The game kicks off at 20:30 which means I will be able to watch at least the first half of England vs Denmark, which kicks off at 19:15

Me today in my brand new 2011 Spain top So proud of this, I got it last year and blogged about it, and they have just been making their way over to England in the last few weeks. I love getting things before anyone else I thought I had already worn it, but I mustn’t of, because it still had a label on the inside

Too bad this is just the 2011 World Cup Winners shirt, they will bring another one out next year for Euro 2012, some fans are complaining that its too many shirts in a short space of time, they are right, but it wont stop me buying them

Last week I got the Spain 2011 Home Shirt, and now I have the Spain 2011 Away Shirt!

Again I had to get this from Spain, from one of the only places selling it at the moment, so I am one of the lucky ones who has it, and once again probably the first one in the country The place I got this one from doesnt do printing, so I couldnt get anything printed on the back. Since Spain havent worn it yet I am unsure what colour the printing will be, I would guess red, its usually red on white, but I dont know at the moment.

I do like it, its nice and clean. I have to say I like the old navy blue one more, probably because they won the world cup in that one

How good does that World Champions 2010 badge look? Hahaha!

So I said in my last post that I was waiting for a special parcel today, and it came, and its here It is the brand spanking new Spain 2011 home shirt!

Soooooo happy that its here! It must be the fastest delivery of anything I have ever got, even Santa Claus himself would not have been able to do it this quick

Adidas announced this shirt on Monday, Spain wore it for the first time on Wednesday, and I have it on Friday. I would guess I am the first person in the UK to have this, very cool This came all the way from Spain via Germany all in a day, I am impressed with 21st century logistics Anyway, enough of my writing and being ecstatic that its here, you wanna see it right?

We got a “World Champions 2010″ gold badge for 4 years, wooohoo! :mrgreen: Some other features of the shirt, the star above the crest aka world cup winners star is embroidered into the shirt,  Campeones Del Mundo 2010 embroidered into the neckline, and a new design of course

This one I got printed, with the hero of Spain, Andreas Iniesta on the back and number 6. You will notice that the front number is in the centre, on the last shirt it was on the breast.

Like I mentioned yesterday, Spain have launched yet another shirt, this one will be the 2011 shirt, available to buy now. I am assuming this is only going to be used upto Euro 2012, and then release yet another shirt for that competition.

That’s loads of shirts Spain have released, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now this, making it 4 shirts in only 2 years! I supposed they have an excuse, there is a new badge on this one, for winning the world cup, aswell as the first design to officially have the star on it.

What do you think? I really like it. I know there are some people who dont, and saying it has too much blue in it, but I prefer them to have different designs, I hate it when a team like England bring out a new shirt and you can barely tell the difference between them.

Back to white for an away shirt. I prefer the gold or blue, but nevermind. Maybe they change the away colours every few years…last was blue, before was yellow, before that I think it was white; I remember in 2002 they had 3, using white as the away and blue as a 3rd. I have them all