Players happy that FC Edmonton has abandoned its black home kit By Steven Sandor Posted on March 13, 2014 1 0 636 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Lance Parker and Albert Watson model the new FCE kits. On Wednesday, FC Edmonton players learned learned that they’ll be playing on football-line-free Clarke Stadium turf come July. On Thursday, they learned that their black home kits will be no more. The team unveiled their new home and away kits for the 2014 season. The Adidas kits sees the team go back to a blue and white design, with only flashes of black. For the players, not having to wear black kits on hot, sunny Sunday afternoons is good news indeed. “It just gives that little more of an edge,” said FCE captain Albert Watson. “You’d play, it would be 30 degrees outside, and then you’d have to play in an all-black kit.” The black kits absorb sun and actually cause the players to be more uncomfortable in hot temperatures, and I’d lost count of the number of players who didn’t have great things to say about wearing black at home in 2013. In fact, in the early part of the season, FCE maxed out the dispensations they had from the league to wear the road kits at home. Coach Colin Miller made the call to wear white at home as much as possible. But, a team can only ask NASL office so many times to wear its designated road kit at home; and, in the second half of the season, the Eddies were stuck with black kits at Clarke. Yes, they looked sharp, but they weren’t practical. Now, going back to the traditional blue colour scheme, with white striping, will show us that everything old is new again — and not to fix something that isn’t broken.
