This is the new Australia Centenary shirt.
Celebrating this year’s 100th anniversary of the team that would become the Socceroos’ first football match - a clash with New Zealand in Dunedin on 17th June 1922 - the long-sleeved Tidwell reproduction is in sky blue with a white collar rather than the green and gold we associate with the Aussies today.
The retro stylings are faithful to the shirt worn a century ago, with the colouring the way it is due to the side wearing a kit featuring sky blue and maroon to nod to the state affiliations of the squad used for the associated invitational tour. Maroon, the tone denoting Queensland, appears as the fill of the “A” (for “Australia”) on the crest, and this is embroidered on a sky-blue patch which is coloured in honour of New South Wales.
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This patch does also carry a golden embroidery of a kangaroo, and a fern, matching in gold rather than silver here, to mark the occasion across the Tasman Sea where the Australians completed their kit with white shorts and sky-blue-and-maroon socks and suffered a 3-1 defeat.
