The Third Kit - Vintage Style | OneFootball

If you want the full story of Inter’s shirts, we recommend the excellent book published by Giunti in June 2025, featuring every kit worn throughout the Club’s history. Today, though, the focus is on the new Third Kit – the perfect occasion to take a look back at the designs that came before it.

n. f. A passion, sometimes tinged with nostalgia, for things from the past that have fallen out of fashion. That is how Treccani defines retromania, a term added as a neologism in 2018. Passion, yes. Nostalgia too. The past, certainly. But out of fashion? Not a chance. If there is one item of clothing enjoying a real golden age in the 2020s, it is the football shirt. Once largely confined to local pitches, PE lessons or, at a push, the stands, it has now become a genuine fashion piece. Seeing musicians perform on stage in football shirts or NBA players arrive at the arena wearing vintage kits has become completely normal. And the rarer and more distinctive the shirt, the more valuable it becomes, as the prices on vintage clothing platforms make abundantly clear. Try buying a friend an original Ronaldo or Cantona shirt from back in the day and you will soon find out for yourself. A Third Kit, meanwhile, can be almost any colour.

It was green, blue and silver when Gabigol scored his only goal for Inter, away to Bologna. It was black with vivid flashes of color when Lautaro struck at Anfield, sealing victory over Liverpool and taking the Nerazzurri to the brink of a famous comeback. It was yellow when Inter booked their place in the Euroderby after two epic nights in Portugal. And it was gray and blue when Adriano reinvented the fandango, Valencia’s traditional dance.

That design, in turn, paid tribute to arguably the most iconic Third Kit in Inter history: the one worn in Europe in 1998, when Ronaldo, so often at his best at the Parc des Princes, led the Nerazzurri to European glory. He sent Marchegiani the wrong way with a succession of feints, without even touching the ball. Pure magic.

The most sought-after shirts are still those that channel the spirit of the 1990s, an era whose music and visual identity continue to shape contemporary culture. Nike’s latest creation is very much part of that tradition, with an unmistakably Nineties look and color palette. Made for roaring the team on from the stands at San Siro, but just as at home at a sunset DJ set on the final night of summer.