Nike’s football (soccer) division has released the official 2024 kit for the England National Team, which depicts a desecrated version of the St. George’s Cross, England’s national flag.
On Monday, Nike Football unveiled the new uniform on X (formerly Twitter). The post includes a close-up image of the back of the shirt’s collar, which has what appears to be a traditional red St. George’s Cross meshed with shades of blue and hot pink. “A playful update to the 🏴 of St. George appears on the collar to unite and inspire,” Nike states.
While Nike does not explain who they are trying to unite or what they are trying to inspire, blue and pink are internationally recognized as the colors of the transgender flag.
Nike’s new England uniform strays further from England’s national colors and historic kit designs with “graphic side panels” on the shirt and shorts that contain various shades of blue, pink, and purple. The away shirts themselves also appear to be a shade of purple. England’s traditional away color is red.
Notably, Nike created kits for several other countries besides England this year, none of which seem to stray so directly and deliberately away from traditional national colors and symbols. Also notable is the fact that the players displaying the new kit in the images provided by Nike appear to be Black. The English are a white European ethnic group, and England is — despite the best efforts of successive globalist governments — still a majority-white nation.
Graphic side panels on the Away kit pay homage to forward-thinking fashionistas.⚡️ pic.twitter.com/Jq8zQ9vyoK
— Nike Football (@nikefootball) March 18, 2024