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Sports Features of Friday, 23 January 2015

Source: rediff.com

Cameroon's most Bizarre and Horrendous football kits!

The African football carnival started on January 17 and will go on for a month in Equatorial Guinea.

The best players and squads come together and provide us with the greatest goals and displays of football.

Of course, we watch the African Cup of Nations for the football, but we also look out for the funny hairstyles, fashion and most importantly, the kits.

There are some stunning efforts to the downright bland, some absolute horror shows and Cameroon rules the roost.

At the African Nations Cup in 2004, Cameroon sported what could reasonably be called a onesie. Cameroon's decision to wear a one-piece football kit at the Cup of Nations in Tunisia in 2004 did help them win the Cap but they were later punished by FIFA.

Football's world governing body was angered by Cameroon's decision to wear their one-piece strip in the knock-out stages of the Nations Cup despite a warning that the kit should only be worn in the group stages of the competition.

Cameroon football federation Fecafoot was fined US $154,000 for using the kit while the Indomitable Lions were docked six qualifying points from their World Cup group.

Sportswear manufacturer Puma defended the controversial one-piece kit saying that the one-piece kit did not actually contravene any of the Laws of the Game.

The points were later restored as common sense kicked in.

The sleeveless shirt was less spectacular but unfortunately Cameroon were the last national team to wear vests with FIFA stepping in and banning them just three months before the 2002 World Cup finals.

According to the regulations of the FIFA the national teams have to wear a FFIA badge on the sleeves. For that reason later, Puma added a black sleeve.

On the Cameroon players it was almost invisible and still looked sleeveless while the badge could be worn at the same time.