What are the two Argentine football shirts included among the 33 best in history?

The well-known English magazine Four Four Two He is used to making those rankings that captivate football fans, especially on dates when there isn’t much to see, and this time he has surprised with one that will cause discussion.

He is the same one who ranked Lionel Messi and Diego Armando Maradona, in that order, as the best footballers in history and who excluded Lionel Scaloni from the Top 100 coaches. Now he has chosen the 33 best t-shirts of all time, between clubs and national teams.

It’s subjective, of course, which is why the English media warned: “Choosing the best football shirts of all time has never been an easy task. To make it easier, we decided to keep it within the parameters of just field jerseys and in the end we got a good mix of clubs.”

This list, which leads that of the Dutch team champions of Europe in 1988, with Marco Van Basten as figure and scorer, Includes in seventh place the one used by the Argentina national team in the 86′ World Cup in Mexico.

Between that orange jersey, with which those led by Rinus Michels won the most important title in their history, and the one that Maradona used to dribble the Englishman and give Argentina its second world championship, there are four other national teams (Denmark1986; Nigeria2018; France, 1984; and what he used West Germany between 1988 and 1990).

Furthermore, the Ajax substitute from the 1989-90 season is in third place. And the Dutch team appears twice more in this ranking: in 17th place with the third shirt of the 2020-21 season and in 26th with the starter used in 1993-94.

Further down, precisely in position 31, there is the only one from an Argentine football team. And that’s what Boca Juniors from the 1985-86 season, with its classic design and without the large Adidas print.

“Boca Juniors’ distinctive blue and yellow shirt hasn’t changed much over the years, but in the mid-1980s it was spectacular. The thick yellow stripe, Adidas Trefoil logo and collar combine here to create a striking effect,” they wrote to justify the choice of this Xeneize design.

Four Four Two had drawn up a ranking of the 50 best shirts of 2019 and also included that of Boca, but on that occasion it was the one that Maradona used in 1981, when Xeneize became champion of the Campionato Metropolitano, the only title of the Ten with the club from the bank of river.

On this occasion, two more from South American teams are added: 1970 world champion Brazil is in 22nd place and Peru, winner of the 78th World Cup, in 29th place.

The complete list

1) Netherlands (1988)

2) Denmark (1986)

3) Ajax (substitute, 1989-90)

4) Nigeria (2018)

5) France (1984)

6) Germany (1990)

7) Argentina (1986)

8) Arsenal (substitute 1991-1993)

9) England (third shirt, 1990)

10) Mexico (1998)

11) Milan (1992-93)

12) Manchester United (1990-92)

13-Liverpool (1989-91)

14) Scotland (1996)

15) Holland (1974)

16) Newcastle (1995-1997)

17) Ajax (third shirt 2020-21)

18) Arsenale (1995-96)

19) England (1982)

20) Barcelona (substitute, 1995-97)

21) Borussia Dortmund (1996-97)

22) Brazil (1970)

23) Borussia Mönchengladbach (1974-75)

24) Barcelona (1995-97)

25) Belgium (1984)

26) Ajax (1993-94)

27) America (1990-91)

28) Fiorentina (third shirt, 1998/99)

29) Peru (1978)

30) Tottenham (1985-1987)

31) Boca Juniors (1985-86)

32) United States (alternate, 1994)

33) England (1966)