Football and Fashion
Euros Fit-Check

Soccer and fashion: there is no other match as unpredictable as this one. At times a bad pass, at others a volley into the top corner. We have looked back at some of the highlights in the history of the European Championship and tried to find the right words. 

Sometimes the present (Berlin) is best explained by the past (Dutch players at the 1988 European Championship): Three friends in Berlin leaving the club on an ordinary Sunday afternoon informing their buddy that they intend to round off the event with a final keta line - tot ziens!



 
To this day, the location and circumstances of this picture remain unclear: are these two gentlemen just British tourists on a resort vacation who, having barely arrived on the airfield of the Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria, are already getting into the right mood and eagerly waiting for the terminal bus? Or are these rather two disappointed fans of the Three Lions who witnessed England's 3:1 defeat against the Netherlands in the Müngersdorfer Stadium at the 1988 European Championship in Germany?



 
The fashion of the 1990s was playful - that's for sure. Few people know, however, that at the time, the design of football shirts was inspired by board games. Here we see Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel contorting himself for a sophisticated Twister position. Some, however, recognize it as a celebratory pose for the Danish national team's surprising victory at the 1992 European Championship.



  Style icons among themselves: German national goalkeeper Andreas Köpke deliberately chose a cyan-coloured dress for his meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at the EURO 1996, which harmonized with the monarch's hat in Veronese green. Meanwhile, world footballer Jürgen Klinsmann translates the conversation into the lingua franca of the international fashion world: Swabian.


 
Royal blue shell suit: “King Otto” Rehhagel surprisingly won the EURO 2004 title for Greece. In return, the man who was rumored to have been born in a tracksuit was inducted into the sporting Olympics in Hellas as Rehakles I.



 
Iceland has roughly the same population as Bielefeld, but far more interesting headgear than East Westphalia. Consequently, the island nation played successfully at the EURO 2016, while Arminia Bielefeld recently managed to avoid relegation to the Regionalliga by the skin of its teeth.