On Monday, following the official announcement of the Super Eagles new kits by Nike, citizens invaded social media to expressed their anger over the new kits.
In a video Nike shared on social media platform, the Eagles’ jerseys was made known to end speculations, following the earlier leaked designs.
the Eagles will wear the new jerseys for their 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign, and for the first time the three-time African champions will wear white as their home kits, with the green jersey, commonly their home kit, serving as the away kit.
The new home jersey is presented in green-white-green tape on the sleeves and shorts, with a faded eagle design on the front.
The absence of the Eagles logo from the shirts is another notable feature on the new kits, which only appeared on the shorts, while Nike’s logo is in red, deviating from the usual Eagles colour scheme.
Fans were surprised to see the necks of the jerseys in square shape with the label on the shirts displaying ‘Naija.’
Mr Femi, An X user of the Jersey disagreed with Nike with the ‘Naija’ label on the shirts.
“I love the design but why not just write ‘Nigeria’ on the front of the Jersey and not naija. The person that came up with that is simply not promoting Nigeria as a country. That alone made the jersey look poorly made because it has no basis. Fix up!”
Yusuff Azeez added, “Green-White-Green are our national colours and ought to be conspicuous on our home kit. What I see here is all white and tiny shades of green. Not cool. Besides, the Nike logo should have been in green color. And our official name isn’t Naija but NIGERIA.”
Uche, Surprised by the introduction of red on the jersey, he stated, “That should be away kit please, I thought green was the official colour and why is the Nike logo red?
Along the same vein, JoLoves Milan said, “Looks like a jersey that is meant for Senegal. There’s nothing “Nigerian” about this Jersey. Every jersey should have symbols of our People, Culture and Land on it. This is poor from Nike!”
Sarki Sulieman tweeted, “What is this rubbish @Nike? We want a standard jersey not an Al Hilal jersey that’s competing with Everton.”
“Nike will just look at this country called Nigeria and design what they like for us,” Engr_Horlla Dolapzy said.
Kazeem Seiduk also disagreed with the design, he tweeted, “This doesn’t make sense in my opinion. And which one be the square neck?”
