Again at this World Cup, the goalkeepers will wear standard jerseys

There was a golden era for goalkeepers and their uniforms that we can pinpoint from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Impossible to forget the USA 94 kits worn by the goalkeeper of Mexico or Colombia that remained engraved in the memory of every fan and wrote pages of football design. The jersey followed and still follows different aesthetic canons from the rest of the team, designed with colours that deviate from the official chrome, but over time this aesthetic has evolved like the role of the goalkeeper. And just like at EURO 2020, at this particular World Cup in Qatar, which officially began on Sunday, the nine brands present have poured over their goalkeepers with the classic standard green, orange or red jerseys, without any particular patterning or at most taking up the patterning present in the kits for the movement players, as is already the case in most major European leagues. 

It is now clear that the oversized uniforms, the super-coloured ones that made us dream so much, have given way to super-technological, breathable and above all monochrome and often even fluorescent slim-fit models. Those patterns, fantasies and embroideries that characterised many of the shirts of the world's most watched sports competition do not seem destined to return at the moment. A choice probably due to the fact that goalkeepers' jerseys do not achieve the same number of sales as those of movement players. However, given the creativity that is now reserved for pre-match jerseys, one wonders why the brands themselves do not want to bring back that nostalgia that has written pages of the sport's history.