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Why does the Thai national team change jersey every year?

A year later, the sponsor Warrix presented five new kits

 Why does the Thai national team change jersey every year? A year later, the sponsor Warrix presented five new kits

Thailand is not one of the most famous national teams in football, with zero appearances in the final phase of a World Cup and a third place in the 1972 Asian Cup to be considered as the best placement in its football history. Thailand is currently playing Qatar 2022 qualifying, and after presenting the four official kits just a year ago, on the eve of the matches with Malaysia and Vietnam, the sponsor Warrix launched another five new jerseys.
The kits are essential and based on the models presented by Nike for the 2018 World Cup, the first shirt (Third 1) is yellow with a collar and blue logos, the second total-white while the three new goalkeeper shirts are peach and in two different shades of blue.
The true quality of these jerseys is perhaps the fabric, ultra-resistant, extendable like the Kappa Kombat and produced by the same Thai Warrix brand.

The production of additional kits by the FAT seems a way to broaden the passion for football through the national merchandising. The ultras with smoke bombs on the streets show how football is a popular passion, which thanks to the jerseys and westernization of the jersey style are focusing on a more aesthetic image of football, still considered secondary sport compared to Muay Thai and Takraw. Even the colors, such as peach, volt or blue, which do not recall the Thai flag, seem to follow the intention of making the kits as fashionable as possible, exploiting the success of football jerseys in streetwear and why not, promoting curiosity towards local football. Bangkok and more generally the entire Asian country, on the other hand, have always been the areas in which the collections of some top sportswear brands like Nike or adidas are produced, from which the techniques and taste have been absorbed.