Why does the Italian soccer team wear blue jerseys when their flag colors are green, white, and red?

Answer 1

it all depends on who created the uniform, in this case someone who liked blue color.... anyways the Italian team have been always known as "azzurri" that means blue so i dont think they will change it soon

Answer 2

Every team use two type of jersey, one when there are playing as home team and it is known as the official color, and the other when they play as the visiting team and its known as the reserve color.
These colors have been presented and aprove many years ago, so each country now uses those colors for there games. Normaly it should be the colors of the country's flag, but with so many countries with the same colors, it was necesary to define a distribute the colors between the countries, some had the luck to get there color and others had to settle for a different color ...
but the diferent options were presented by the own country.
The reserve color was created, because the official color of two countries playing a match, looked a like.

For Italy the Oficial color is White Jersey and the Reserve Color is Blue jersey.
For USA the oficial color is white jersey with stripe and the reserve color is blue jersey with stripe.

Because US was playing as the home team, he could choose to use the white jersey, and Italy had to use the reserve color. If the official color of US was blue, then Italy would had had to play in white.

Answer 3

Their jerseys are traditionally white and/or blue. Many countries do not wear the colors of their flag.

Answer 4

i have always wonder the same way.. its just like Netherlands wearing orange their colors are red white and blue

Answer 5

Italy has always had blue as the primary colour of its jersey. for all sports.

Answer 6

cz the others are used colors. not too many teams wear blue-blue

Answer 7

They still look HOT*** in them!

Answer 8

because they know you are color blind