Nike Gameday Kit 2009/10 - Manchester United

Aug. 28, 2009 - PRLog -- Manchester United's unprecedented success in the modern era has been built upon their commitment to entertaining football, a ferocious fighting spirit and a unique ability to intimidate opponents.  

An aura of invincibility has grown around United as they have lifted an incredible twenty major trophies in the last twenty seasons, a run based largely on their dominant record at Old Trafford.  

The new Manchester United home kit recognises both their glorious history at Old Trafford in the ground's centenary year and enhances their ability to continue to strike fear in to visiting teams.  

The shirt features a large black chevron across the chest, which echoes the same pattern United wore on their shirts during the 1909-10 season when Old Trafford first opened.  

The distinctive angle of the chevron also directly replicates the one found at the bottom of the club crest containing United's red devil.  

The chevron is in black, and not the more traditional white, to augment the upper chest area of the shirt and give United players an even bigger and more intimidating appearance.  

The entire back of the shirt has an engineered mesh, which is a series of small chevrons, a performance feature to offer players even greater ventilation during games.  

Inside the black round-neck collar is a high quality woven label with the three United colours, red, white and black, while engineered in to the side seam is a small label that reads 'The Theatre of Dreams Since 1910.'



The shirt is made from Nike Dri-Fit fabric, which keeps players drier, cooler and lighter by drawing sweat from the body to the fabric's surface, while it's three-dimensional construction gives more air space around the skin to reduce clinging.

The home shorts are white with a red stripe along the side, a graphic of a red devil is on the back of the waist band and the draw cords feature MUFC on the tips. The socks are black with a red chevron on the calf.

The new United away kit retains the same distinctive features as the home kit, and consists of a black shirt with a royal blue chevron on the chest, black shorts with a royal blue stripe on the sides and black socks with a royal blue chevron on the calf.
Club History

In 1878 several members of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway decided to form a new football club called Newton Heath.

In 1902 the club changed their name to Manchester United, and under the reign of Ernest Mangnall won two League Championships, in 1908 and 1911, and an FA Cup with victory over Bristol City in the 1909 final.  

It then wasn't until the arrival of Matt Busby in 1945 that United began to evolve in to the global force of today.

Over the next quarter of a century, Busby created three great sides, nurtured Duncan Edwards, George Best and Bobby Charlton, and led United to five League titles, two FA Cups and the European Cup.

In 1958 he also had to overcome the loss of eight players from the side affectionately known as The Busby Babes who died in a plane crash at Munich on their way home from a European tie. A survivor of the disaster, Sir Bobby Charlton has observed, “Before we were just a Manchester club, but then we became everyone's club.”

Exactly ten years later United became the first English club to win the European Cup when they beat Benfica 4-1 at Wembley stadium.  

United fell in to an inevitable decline following Busby's retirement in 1970, and even dropped in to the Second Division for a season.  

Since his appointment in 1986 Sir Alex Ferguson has been responsible for the most successful period in the club's history by winning ten Premiership titles, five FA Cups, two Champions League, the European Cup Winners Cup and three League Cups.  

United's finest ever moment came in the 1998-99 season when they won a historic treble of trophies.

Today Ferguson presides over yet another successful side, who remain faithful to the club's entertaining traditions, and led by the genius of Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand, have so far won two Premiership titles and the Champions League since 2007.