This season Manchester United will return to playing in a red shirt with a traditional white collar, an evocative combination worn by the greatest sides in the club’s history; the Busby Babes, the holy trinity of Law, Best and Charlton, and the 1999 Treble winners.

The body of the shirt is red with a white polo-neck collar, while on both shoulders is a white stripe consisting of red and black half chevrons, and on the left sleeve is a Red Devil from the club crest.  On the back of the shirt below the neck is ‘MUFC’ while across most of the back is an engineered mesh of perforated holes in the shape of a shattered chevron, which is designed to cool the spine.

The chevron, replicating the pattern United wore on their shirts when Old Trafford was first opened exactly 100 years ago, is featured prominently on the torso of last year’s home shirt and has been retained and subtly integrated in to this kit. There is also a thin black stripe on the hem, and a spilt on each side to give the shirt a more fashionable appearance, while also being more forgiving for players on the pitch.

Detailed designed. – Thumbs up!

Inside the shirt, on the back of the club crest, is a graphic that reads ‘Believe’, the simple and inspiring message behind two of United’s greatest triumphs of the modern era.  In 1999 United ran newspaper advertisements with the message ‘Believe’ on the morning of United’s victory over in Barcelona, and two years ago in Moscow the same message was displayed on cards held up by United fans before their victory over in the final.

The home shorts this season are white with a black stripe containing white and red half chevrons on each side, with the Red Devil from the club crest on the bottom of the right side. The new home socks are black with a red top and a white ergonomic chevron on the back of each calf.

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Heard about Nike’s “The Chance”?

In short, it’s an opportunity for regular footballers (you know, like you and me) to play with the big boys i.e go pro! More info HERE.

Footballers young and old (at least 18 years old) have entered the competition and the trick is to get noticed by Nike and their talent scouts. One way is to  do that is to rack up as many Facebook fans as you can!

And we’re trying to do our part to help get a Malaysian noticed!

We need your help, too. Please inform us if you know any of your friends or friends’ friends who’ve entered the competition and we’ll include them in our Malaysian Nike “The Chance” list here.

How to do you part. Easy. Just Paste their Facebook page link using these alternatives:

1) Paste their Facebook page link here in the comment sections.

2) Paste their Facebook page link at the FFM Facebook page.

3) Send us the link to their Facebook page at findfutsal@gmail.com

See, our objective is to present an easy reference for all Malaysians to get access to all our Malaysians entries in Nike’s “The Chance”. If you want to see a Malaysian make it in the big leagues, please “like” their Facebook pages and ask your friends and family to do the same.

Once the list is up, all you need to do to help make them get noticed is by going to their fan pages and “liking” them.

The list will be updated as and when we get new info on Malaysians who’ve joined.

THE MALAYSIAN INVASION

1) Azri Haidar. ‘ Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

2) Mohd Rashidee. ‘Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

3) Melvin. ‘Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

4) Syukran Syuk. ‘Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

5) Joshua Khor. ‘Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

6) Mohd Zulfaizal. ‘Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

7) Reuben Gill. ‘Like’ his Facebook fanpage here.

Malaysia boleh!

NIKE, Inc. today launched the new Arsenal club kits showcasing a new design approach intended to maximize performance while minimizing environmental impact.  The kits highlight Arsenal’s unique heritage with traditional graphics, while incorporating lightweight design and recycled fabric.

The new kits reflect the design innovation and premium detailing demanded by football’s elite players.  A combination of renewable fabric sourcing, new design aesthetic and numerous nods to Arsenal’s rich history set a new standard for the club uniforms.

Technology Driven and Eco Sensitive Sportswear – We like!

For the first time in the club’s history, the new shirts are made entirely from recycled polyester, with each shirt directly produced from up to eight plastic water bottles found at waste disposal sites in Japan and Taiwan. The bottles are thoroughly cleaned, reduced to tiny flakes, melted into a yarn and spun for kit fabrication. This new manufacturing process reduces energy consumption by up to 30% compared to manufacturing traditional polyester.

With the new manufacturing process, Nike has saved nearly 13 million plastic water bottles, a total of around 254,000 kg of polyester waste that can take up to 500 years to naturally decompose. Every recycled bottle used to make these kits laid from top to bottom would cover over 3,000 kilometers, or 29 football pitches.

The kits allow players to maintain their optimum body temperature and perform at their peak on the pitch by helping keep them dry and cool. The new Nike Dri-FIT fabric, 13% lighter than previous kits, helps to quickly evaporate moisture by drawing it to the surface to enhance breathability by up to 7% more than previous versions. The innovative ventilation zones along each side of the jersey and below the waistband and near the base of the spine on the shorts, significantly increases air penetration to keep players cooler.

The jersey’s new dynamic fit and double knit structure gives it a sleeker appearance, while offering 10% more stretch than the last Arsenal jersey. The jersey’s silhouette follows the body’s natural contours for maximum movement and airflow.

Style and Design

A distinct sense of tradition and style has characterized Arsenal’s approach both on and off the pitch. This season, to reflect their inherent style, Arsenal will play in new home and away shirts featuring the classic sartorial craftsmanship usually found on a tailored Savile Row shirt in London.

Both shirts have a stitched seam on the upper back, deep cuffs on the sleeve, and a wide vertical mesh stripe running throughout the material. The new home shirt is a modern interpretation of the classic Arsenal shirt by combining a red body, white sleeves, and a white round-neck collar.  On the back of the shirt below the neck reads ‘Arsenal’ in the club’s unique font, similar to the massive concrete letters that stand at the entrance to the Emirates stadium.

Inside the shirt on the back of the club crest is a graphic that reads ‘Victoria Concordia Crescit’ which is Arsenal’s Latin motto and translates as ‘Victory Through Harmony.’ The new away shirt contains the same distinct craftsmanship as the home shirt, but is in the classic Arsenal away color of yellow, evoking memories of winning the League title at Anfield in 1989. The v-neck collar, cuffs and pinstripes on the yellow shirt are all redcurrant, the color of Arsenal’s shirts during the first and last year, separated by 93 years, they played at their former stadium and spiritual home Highbury.

This season additional leading clubs, including Manchester United, FC Barcelona and Inter Milan will be wearing the most eco-friendly and technologically advanced kit in football history. The new Arsenal kits will be available from July 2010 onwards.

We have here the compiled video tips from Asafa Powell (once the fastest man on Earth when he held the 100 m world record between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively) from the Nike Zoom “Quick is Deadly” feature back in 2007.

Drill 1: High Knees

Drill 2: Skip (A)

Drill 3: Skip (B)

Drill 4: Backwards Run

Drill 5: Straight Leg Run

Disclaimer: Please attempt at your own risk and do stretch thoroughly before doing the drills. Your safety is your very own responsibility.

So Me, nee Bertrand De Langeron, is an acclaimed illustrator as well as the art director of Ed Banger records, one of the world’s most cutting – edge labels. Since 2003, his album art and music videos have come to embody the eclectic world of Ed Rec, adding complimentary visuals to their innovative sounds.

His contributions to the France kit exhibit his pop art sensibility and tongue-in-cheek style. The colorful mascot and crest feature a simple character that’s a parody of the stereotypical Frenchman – complete with a tilted beret and manicured moustache.

The pattern lining the hoodie on the AW77 is a brick-like repeat in vibrating red, blue and black and the hand-written font features rounded edges, adding to the kit’s playful vibe.

Check out the full France NSW gallery here at our Facebook page.

The Nike Six Collaborations are available at the Nike Sportswear stores from March 2010 onwards.

As part of Nike’s collaboration with “Red” to help raise awareness about HIV and AIDS, they’ve launched special red laces under the slogan “Lace Up, Save Lives”. 100% of the profits from the sale of these laces will be channeled to both the Global Fund and other soccer-based community programmes aimed at educating people about AIDS.

The two main personalities at the forefront of the initiative are U2’s Bono and Chelsea’s Didier Drogba,  netting twice against Arsenal in the special red laces. “It’s a big honour and pleasure for me to be linked with Bono and try to help him save some lives. AIDS and HIV is something that really destroyed Africa, and people don’t really realise how easy it is to save lives — only two pills a day, which is 40 cents.” says the African footballer.

The Nike “Lace Up, Save Lives” laces are available at all major Nike boutiques.  Retail price is RM15.

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Be in the running to win cold, hard cash in our “And Which One Are You?” game.

It’s simple.

Head to our “And Which One Are You?“ album and tag yourself or your friends (on any of the identical photos in the album) to a football boot that best describes your or your friends’  style of football/futsal play i.e speed, accuracy, touch or control.

Include a comment why you tagged yourself or your friends to that particular shoe and if we think you have the best answer, we’ll be sending RM50 your way!

Contest runs till 23 December 2009. Terms and conditions apply.

Without going into the complicated science behind its technology, in a nutshell, Nike+ enables your running shoes to communicate with a Nike+ sportsband that measures and records the distance and pace of your walk or run, besides other personal workout statistics. This helps you set goals and monitor progress. More on Nike+ in our coming articles.

The event was graced by the world #1 badminton player and national pride Datuk Lee Chong Wei! The students went berserk as he stepped into plain sight. Other famous faces included Era FM’s Nana, Azura as well as celebrity bloggers Niki Cheong and Amanda Choe, just to name a few.

The school girls ran the course in high spirits starting from MGS and making a 2km round back to their school. FFM ran with them and took snapshots as they braved the morning sun. Every single one of them made it to the finish line, schoolmates cheering and all.

Needless to say, the girls and teachers had a blast. The hosts kept the event fun and cheery with fun facts about running and also gave away cool Nike prizes during the little game session.

As Nike RunKL @ MGS drew to a close around midday, the World Wide Fund For Nature was presented with an RM10,000 cheque, a handsome amount on any day.

You can check out more photos from the event on our Facebook page. Don’t forget to check out the famous faces album, too.

On Sunday, 8 November, Find Futsal Malaysia conducted a photoshoot with a whole array of NIKE football boots and 2 pairs of NIKE futsal shoes. What’s different and significant from our other photoshoots is that this is the first time we used models as part of the set.

Trying to stay true to our aim of bringing an extra little something to potentially mundane photoshoots, this is what we came up with.

The featured shot which was released on our Facebook page and titled “It’s Still 14.11.09 in Brazil” took us quite a while to pull off.

We hope you enjoy the spread and also the other soon-to-be-posted photos from the photoshoot.

Thanks to Padang @ One Utama for allowing us to use one of their courts for the purpose of this photoshoot.

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Concept and choreography: FFM crew & Aris Bundchen.

Photgraphy: Aris Bundchen

Models: Ahmad Farouq & Firman

Venue: Padang @ One Utama

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Disclaimer: This photoshoot and the images associated with it are not any form of advertisement as instructed by any company or individual. Product loans were undamaged before and after the photoshoot.

We’re quite sure that at least 98% of you have watched one of Summer 2009’s highest grossing movie, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox (both in photo).

In conjunction with the release of the blockbuster, Nike have released Nike x Transformers II Pack, consisting of the Nike Zoom FP, Nike Zoom Flight Club and Nike Zoom Sharkalaid in the form of Bumblebee, Megatron and Soundwave, respectively.

Check it out!

Via Freshness Mag