Senegal jersey's history The aesthetics of the national team that finally won the African Cup of Nations
Yesterday will be a day that will be impossible to forget for the fans of Senegal, who for the first time in their history managed to win the African Cup of Nations after countless bitter disappointments by defeating Egypt. A tense and heartfelt final for both teams on the field, which could have been unblocked when Abdelmonem gave the opponents a penalty kick, then failed by Manè, and ended on penalties after a scoreless extra time. A trophy wanted and sought, after having only touched it in 2019, in the final lost in the first minutes to Mahrez's Algeria.
Defining the aesthetics of the Senegal national team over the past 15 years has been PUMA, a dominance that began in 2006 and was only interrupted in 2017 by Romai, a brand born in the United Arab Emirates. The German brand has accompanied Senegal ever since the African nation abandoned Le Coq Sportif, which had made the first uniforms with which the Lions of Teranga revealed themselves to the world. Senegal is one of the selections that has always shown a lot of colors and originality in its uniforms, experimenting and proposing always different templates and designs with every brand, from PUMA to Le Coq Sportif.
The Le Coq Sportif origins
The home kit worn in the 2017 edition is probably one of the most unique, with the return of the stylized lion. Romai designed a white background jersey with a green left sleeve, while on the right side stands out the stylized head of a lion ready to bite his rivals, symbolizing the hunger for soccer that is experienced in Senegal. A relationship that ended disastrously, however, without any official explanation and just a few months before the most important competition in the world, the World Cup. Another strange and inexplicable episode in the troubled relationship between African national teams and kit suppliers.
