Top 5 PUMA jerseys for the Italian national team After adidas' announcement it's time to draw conclusions

After the rumours of the last months, yesterday the Italian national team made official the partnership with adidas that will take the place of PUMA. The threes stripes will arrive on the Azzurri jersey only from January 2023, after the World Cup in Qatar in December, which may be the last appointment of the Italian national team sponsored by PUMA. Kits will be produced for each of the selections (men's, women's, youth, futsal, beach soccer and e-sports). This is the end of a story that has lasted almost 20 years made of emotions, great successes and also bitter disappointments, waiting to see how the play-offs will go that will determine the presence of the Azzurri at the next world competition where we could see a new shirt and the last of the PUMA era.

The partnership between PUMA and the Azzurri is not just any old partnership, it is the longest-lasting and most successful of the national team, which, wearing the jerseys of the brand founded by Rudolf Dassler, managed to win the fourth star in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and also the European Championship this summer, a success that had been missing since 1968 when Riva was on the field and the Azzurri were one of the strongest teams around. To celebrate this unforgettable history we decided to rewind the tape, going through the various stages of the relationship between PUMA and Italy, selecting what we think are the 5 best jerseys designed by the German brand for the national team.

World Cup 2006 

Same year, same competition, another jersey that will be impossible to forget is the goalkeeper's jersey worn exclusively by Buffon. The goalkeeper's jersey took up the brown of the shorts of the movement players. Unfortunately, the Azzurri were not very lucky and in the group with Egypt, Brazil and the United States they collected only one victory, which was not enough to reach the stages of the tournament, which was won by the greenoro team in a strange and beautiful final with the USA.