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Aldyr Garcia Schlee may not be known to the vast majority of football supporters but his design certainly is. He is the man responsible for one of the most noted creations in sport – the yellow football shirts with a green collar and cuffs of the Brazilian national football team.  He nicknamed the new shirt as The Little Canary.

The 2-1 home defeat to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup final hit Brazil extremey hard. Losing to near neighbours on home turf was regarded a national embarrasment with the teams goalkeeper Moacir Barbosa being vilified for what was deemed a culpable performance. The playing kit was also seen as not sufficiently patriotic with its white body and blue collars.  This was because it did not reflect every colour on the national flag.

As the decade progressed Brazil still suffered from the ignominy of the Uruguayan defeat and a competition was held to design a new home football shirt that encompassed all the colors contained in the national flag – yellow, green, blue and white.

Near to the Uruguayan border, in a small town named Pelotas, lived 19 year old Aldyr Garcia Schlee. He worked as a newspaper illustrator and entered the competition with a classically uncomplicated design. A yellow shirt with green collar and cuffs, blue shorts with white upright stripe and white socks. In December 1953 he was declared the winner and Brazil wore his kit for the first time in March 1954.

The 1970 World Cup was the first to be shown on colour television and the superb Brazilian team of Pele, Rivelino, Jairzinho and teammates brought the tournament to vivid, memorable life. The yellow football shirts became a romantic symbol of the beautiful game and that team in that tournament wearing that shirt hold a mythical status in the world of football.

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