World Cup 2026: this team forced to... change its shirts 😱 | OneFootball

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·11 June 2026

World Cup 2026: this team forced to... change its shirts 😱

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The blunder.

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A real mess has hit the Haiti national team, drawn in Group C alongside Brazil, Morocco, and Scotland, just one day before the kickoff of the 2026 World Cup!


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Indeed, Haiti was forced by FIFA to urgently change its World Cup kits. The ones originally planned featured an illustration considered a political message by the governing body.

The bad news was announced by Saeta, the team’s equipment supplier.

The reason? The original home and away shirts featured an illustration of the Battle of Vertières, which marked the end of the Haitian War of Independence.

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Result: the new kits will be identical... just without that illustration.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.


📸 CHANDAN KHANNA - AFP or licensors

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