Pursuit of Dopeness

Club América, the reigning champions of Mexico’s Liga MX, have unveiled their new home kit for the 2013/2014 season. The new home kit features a return of the “V,” a signature design for the club inspired by the iconic look the club sported back in the 80′s (their most successful era).

The pixelated “V” is in blue with a thin red fringe. See more pics below. [...]

EA Sport’s FIFA franchise is the best-selling sports franchise and that’s more than well-deserved. They’ve just come out with the trailer for FIFA 14, which will be out on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on 24 September 2013 in North America and 27 September in Europe. See the new gameplay features and pre-order now: http://bit.ly

Quite possibly one of the worst jerseys ever. Warrior is the brand that put together this uniform for the northern English club and they did a terrible job at it.

It features a weird little diamond/pixelated graphic in red, black and tonal gray on the front of the jersey and the side of the shorts. The goalkeeper jersey is equally terrible, with its own weird color pattern. Having kept it simple, it wouldn’t be all that bad. More pics are shown below. [...]

Manchester United’s new home shirt for the 2013/14 season takes inspiration from the club’s success and Manchester’s industrial heritage. It is available to pre-order now and can be purchased in stores tomorrow (Thursday 6 June) at 08:30 BST (not sure when they’ll be in stores in America). [...]

Nike Soccer has finally unveiled their latest boot of the stars of the world’s sport… The Nike Hypervenom.

This will be the boot of choice for Wayne Rooney and Neymar, who is presented with the new Hypervenom in the video above. Read details on the new Hypervenom and see some hi-def pics below.

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After unveiling the new home kits for the England National Team, Nike Football (Soccer) has also now unveiled the new away kit. The shirt is gorgeous (!) with a great red like that of St. George’s flag plus a beautiful golden badge that honors the English Federation’s 150th anniversary. You can a close-up picture above and you can find other shots after the jump. [...]

Nike are the new makers of the England National Team kits and they have just unveiled the “Home” shirt. It’s got a classic and simple aesthetic, but it’s not just about the shirt… It’s what you do with the shirt that matters.

As Nike Football put it: “We make the shirt. Defence-splitting, game-turning, highlight-writing, Wayne Rooney will make it matter.”

See more pics below. Buy it here: http://go.nike.com/Eng [...]

The MLS has announced the league’s 20th club: New York City Football Club (NYCFC). The founding of the team was three years laying the groundwork, as Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced on Tuesday that the new club is the product of a collaboration between English Premier League 2011/2012 Champions Manchester City FC and Major League Baseball’s legendary New York Yankees.

The new team will be named and is expected to begin play in 2015.

While it’s not exactly surprising, for those of us that follow the beautiful game, especially in the US’s league, this is important news for it’s a testament to the growth of the sport and what’s best is that New York proper, the capital of the world, will be home to the club. I’m no Man. City fan at all, but when my country’s soccer league shows (major) growth, it’s something worth being proud of.

Read more on what’s been reported of New York City FC below. [...]

Images of the 2013/2014 Nike kits for Spanish champions F.C. Barcelona have been released. Most importantly, the new kits eliminate the 2012/2013′s crappy-looking fading/blending effect made with the respective home and away colors, opting now for solid stripes. The Barça home kit features the same color scheme with a yellow collar, while the away kit is based on the Catalán “Senyera” flag with yellow and red stripes. See the new kits below. [...]

Gareth Bale (Tottenham) vs. Sunderland

Club play is coming to an end with the Premier League, Serie A and the Bundesliga all closing up shop for the summer. The last fixture was drenched in drama and some great goals were more without a doubt present. The top goal goes to England’s Player of the Season, Gareth Bale, who scored a superb shot from outside the penalty box to give his Tottenham a win. See the rest of our Goals of the Week below. [...]