Serie A’s SS Lazio Mark 125th Anniversary With Special Kits

Italian Serie A side SS Lazio is honouring its past this week with a special anniversary jersey.

The club based in the Italian capital of Rome celebrated the 125th anniversary of its founding on Thursday, January 9, by unveiling a special kit that they’ll wear in their next Serie A match on Friday, January 10, against Como 1907.

The shirt is predominantly white, with the focal point being a retro club crest on the left chest that Lazio used in the late 1970s. “The Lazio logo, a stylised eagle with two large wings, between which the head of the imperial symbol stands out, stands out on the right of the new shirt at heart level,” the club’s announcement reads (translated to English by Google). The eagle crest is navy blue — as is the logo of manufacturer Mizuno on the opposite side — and has a navy blue outline.

The shirt also features stripes of different shades of blue across the shoulders and in the sleeve cuffs, which Lazio says is a throwback to kits the club wore in the 1980s. “Difficult years for Lazio from a sporting and corporate point of view, but which have forged the white and blue fan creating an indissoluble bond with these colors. The shirt as a second skin, the eagle and its pride as a way of being of the white and blue people.”

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An embossed geometric pattern covers the front of the shirt. Printed on the back collar is the date “9 GENNAIO 1900” (9 January 1900), the exact date of Lazio’s founding.

The white shirt will be paired with navy blue shorts and white socks with stripes matching the shoulders of the jersey.

The goalkeeper’s kit also released on Thursday has a light blue base with light blue logos on the chest and slightly different shades of blue on the shoulders.

Lazio also released a new navy blue walkout jacket to go along with the jersey. It has the same embossed geometric pattern as the shirt and gold logos.

It was on January 9, 1900, that nine young athletes gathered in the Plaza della Libertà in Rome to found a sporting society “that would be accessible to the youth of the people and that would pass on the moral and ethical values of sport.”

They chose the Eagle as their symbol, emblem of the Roman Empire, a proud animal synonymous with power, victory and prosperity, and the colors white and light blue, in honor of Greece, the homeland of the Olympics. And finally the name, Lazio.
— SSLazio.it (translated to English by Google)

Kickoff between SS Lazio and Como 1907 is at 2:45 p.m. ET at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. The game will stream on Paramount+ in the United States and on FuboTV in Canada.