The Portland Thorns held an event on Wednesday night to announce their custom Nike home and away jerseys for the upcoming 2019 season and invited some lucky fans and media along to get a first glimpse at what the 2019 Thorns would look like on the field. Well, not the first glimpse exactly—the jerseys had been leaked in low-res images in the weeks before the event and generated much discussion online, but there’s no doubting they look better in person than they did in those first few hints.
The home shirt features a black bar pattern (modelled on the pattern of the flag of Portland) overlaid on a photograph of the famous red smoke released by the Riveters for goal celebrations, with black shorts to match.
