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The worst World Cup jerseys of all time

Originally Published: March 9, 2010
By Roger Bennett | Special to ESPN.com

My first World Cup, the delirious spectacle of Argentina 1978, was played in the consumer dark ages. Sports manufacturers had yet to wise up to the fact that impressionable 7-year-olds like me would pay good coin to cloak ourselves in the garb of our idols. To diffuse my frustration, my mother purchased an orange nylon phys ed shirt, and used a sewing needle to emblazon the breast pocket with the words "Dutch Power" in crude, white cotton stitching. By the time my Dutch heroes had fallen in the ...

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