I hear you. We played “Chelsea” this year, didn’t see anything related to Chelsea other than 2 year old kits. My oldest has a lot of kits, my friends bring him kits from all the places they go for work travel - always tell them to bring back smaller club teams they see. I think my kid gets a bigger kick when someone from the city/town hits him up about where he got the kit.
Every weekend I see teams playing in Santa Ana wearing fake Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Puma and others.....affiliated?
Yeah but the reason they wear knockoff gear? The jersey isn’t important. They just want to all look the same as a team. Sporting $75-120 buck jerseys to play in is cuckoo. My kid ‘s friends play in Sunday leagues and he joins them often. Usually a MX national team or Liga Mx team, etc. Yep, always knockoffs so they can lose the gear and it’s not a big deal. Some teams have started to print their gear with local sponsors. We all know $300 for kits is nonsense and ways for clubs to make money. I don’t knock whatever kids are wearing. A little different when they show up to school in the gear as kids will rip on one another - some kids can’t take the ribbing.. My kid use to order knockoffs of oddball clubs - he didn’t care it was off a little. End of the day whatever gets kids playing and enjoying themselves - as long as they aren’t being taken advantage of.
My kid has all the big club authentication and his number one worn jersey is a $20 Thai Leverkusen jersey
I tried to buy my wife's dad (from Guatemala) a knock off Maradona jersey for his 50th bday back in 97, the year we got married. She took one look at that tag and said, "hell no, he would never forgive you for that." I kept it and my wife found the real one that was 10x more
Lol, like the time I took my kid to play indoor soccer at the Anaheim Indoor and my wife was “never again”. Think the drunk dudes peeing in the corner by the fields and half the fields with no carpet might have been the deal breakers. Although she was down with the fruit vendor across the street in front of the Sports Complex.I don't mind the characters & dispensaries next door but regular OC soccer mom's might not enjoy the ambiance
Ones my kid was getting looked like legit Nike and Adidas gear - seemed like legit Shirts with slightly off logos or missing patches. Hell artists have knocked off own products for hundreds of years - just so they get paid. They figure if anyone is going to make extra money, it might as well be them.
No idea if that lawsuit would have merit, but I’m sure that someone filing a lawsuit would name anyone and everyone they could. And hope that the deepest pockets pays up.
Motherships 100% always looking to mitigate any liability. Don’t know what the contract look like but I’m sure LAG covered their ass. That doesn’t mean they aren’t also trying to mitigate any bad press. Even if they are only affiliates, the pro club is always going to try to avoid news leaks of things like: coaches sleeping with players parents, poor treatment of coaches, poor treatment of players, snake oil salesman rep and worse. Most Motherships get calls and emails from parents about stuff going on. So when they pull affiliations it is usually because they know affiliates are not good for their business/brand. Otherwise they would just keep using the affiliates to keep selling tickets and merch.
