The top 8 best kits banned by federations and governments From the Cameroon-FIFA clash to the sensational error of Fiorentina

Football shirt designs are often vehicles for a team's stories, messages and symbols. Not all designs, however, respect the rules and traditions of a country, of a federation, and often due to some neglected details a shirt can never see the light. Overcoming the approval of a club's team and designers is not enough to guarantee its debut on the best stages and on more than one occasion it is even governments that intervene to block the process that starts from the concept and ends on the pitch and in the stores. Innovation does not always find unanimous approval and the cases of "banned kits" are more than one can imagine.

Fiorentina 1993-94 - Lotto Away Kit

The model that adidas proposed to the AFA before USA94 required the intervention of Julio Grondona, president of the federation at the time, who stopped production. The albiceleste pattern was the basis of the kit as tradition dictates, but the reason for the ban is the color of the outlines of the stripes. The federation rules provided for the only use of light blue and white on the home shirt, without the addition of other colors and black represented an insurmountable obstacle.

Barcelona 2020-21 - Nike Kit

As a bonus track there is a surprise Barcelona, guilty of having rejected a proposal from Nike for rather strange reasons. In 2019 Mundo Deportivo reported the news of a refusal by the Catalan company of a design proposed by Nike. The shirt - which would have been in the kits this year - features the cross of St. George, the patron saint of Barcelona, as a pattern. While the style convinced the club, the base color chosen for the shirt forced Barça to refuse the shirt as it was "too close to the colors of Real Madrid". The accused "blanco" played a decisive role in the non-choice of the shirt and the fanaticism against the cousins of the capital was the master.