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00:00 Why Are Football Shirts So Expensive?
00:37 The Origins of Football Shirts
02:58 The Surprising Truth about the Prices
05:42 How Much Do Clubs and Brands Actually Earn?
09:36 Today’s Video Sponsor: NordVPN!
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👕 What do you think, are football shirt prices too damn high?
Manchester shirts are like 28 euro💀
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Buy your jerseys from China, They are so much cheaper. The places I go to are DH gate and AliExpress
who paid you off to make this video
Nike and addidas destroy football jersey market …. people like us can't effort football jersey …
In india original jersey price is 4000 rs minimum and my salary is 35 000 ….its not worth it to pay extra money to America company
Its better too buy first copy jersey
Ali express be like 18 bucks
guys it is greedy owners and capitalists, he lied
I got this store in my area that sells jerseys for 10$ with the shorts
here in bangladesh i wear a 3 dollar football jersey for 1 years atleast. cant tell the difference but what i wear is not bad
I dont know why people complain about buying football shirts for $80 with production being $8 while other brands like Gucci has products made for $10 but sell it for $2000
I buy my football shirts for 30 reais I live in Brazil I have Santos, Flamengo, Corinthians, Brazil and Sergipe
I buy my football shirts for 30 reais I live in Brazil I have Santos, Flamengo, Corinthians, Brazil and Sergipe
Because humans are gullible when they see a brand. #Facts
Your inflation reasoning for the football shirt pricing is wrong. During those 30 years, production also moved to cheap locations; production costs are the same/lower than 30 years ago, because they're made in Vietnam/China/Sri Lanka etc.
I live in Iraq and i bought an authentic player issue Barca shirt for 20$. At first i thought no way this is actually authentic but it has the same exact details. Quality. Printing style and materials as the one i bought online from Barca store for 140 Euros. It made me regret buying the later😂
FOOTBALL SHIRTS ARE EXPENSIVE BECAUSE IN CAPITALIST SOCIETIES WITH FREE MARKETS THE PRICE IS SUBJECTIVE AND NOT OBJECTIVE AND THAT IS THE WAY IT HAPPENS WITH EVERYTHING.
Once you buy an authentic version, you can never go back to the replica version
Profits have to made, that much i can understand but if something is costing less than a few quid to make, theres no reason it should be selling for well over 60 or 70 quid
Football shirts prices are obscene expensive… I'm from Barcelona and this year's replica is about 99€ and the player shirt 120 f@#£& euros!! Price for tourists
I have over 300 shirts in my collection get mine directly from Indonesia for 30 dollars including shipping, they look amazing
The voice in this video is so soothing. great work Athletic Interest
Come to Bangladesh! 😂 Here it is Jersey price 3$–5$ Xd!
Bro du bist safe Deutsch das merkt man😂
The replica market from Asia where you can buy a shirt for €15-€20 is where I am gonna stick for now. Haven't bought a shirt in ages and ordered 2 which will cost me €35 for both.
Inflation doesn’t match the difference cause there more people buying jersey so mass sell off should make it even cheaper and productivity of jersey making if pretty much monopoly adidas Nike puma
in our country Afghanistan, the replica shirts are 4$ even less sometimes. and one of my friends gifted me an authentic version of the Barcelona shirt. there is not much difference between the two.
damn between 0:00 n' 0:01 he sounded like kurzgesagt's narrator
£100 for a football shirt. Crazy. Just buy a fake
You can come in Kosovo and you have all shirts only for 15 euro
It´s still ridiculous, a normal t-shirt without the logo can be as cheap as like 4 euro, so shirts with a logo shouldn´t cost much more than that
https://youtu.be/f58EHzzzikA how football shirts have changed btw
Well then people who buy baseketball jerseys must look very foolish. For example a Curry jersey that is made by Nike costs around $270. Kobe Bryant 8/24 reversible is almost $700!
you forgot about materials pre-production. they dont't appear out of thin air-
it's a shame the sponsor logo is so huge. i want to buy the team's name on the shirt, not the sponsor
Let me guess… This video was sponsored by Adidas.🤔
cause barça needs money
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250$ for Lucas 🐐 let’s goooo
Because production cost is not the only cost that matters lol
in my country they are 600 denars like 10 euros
Please use currencies that exist around the 70s 80s 90s, there was no euro, so your examples could be easily misunderstood as selfcreated with no research intended
If you really want to save just wait for the new release and get the older model…a 90 dollar shirt will go for 30-60 dollars
laugh in Thailand fake replica jersey
YOU TALKED ABOUT PALERMO MY TEAM💗🖤
I don't like the logic used for the retailer. Does that mean all t-shirts are meant to cost 40 euros?
Hmmm…in my experience they’ve always been pretty expensive. At least in the US. It was hard to get jerseys because there was no real market and demand was limited to those small soccer loving populations, so everything was imported. I’m talking since the mid 90’s. Even after the US World Cup.
And soccer specialty stores were limited. Being of Mexican descent I grew up watching the Mexican league and again, those jerseys were imported and were always between $70 and $90 USD. MLS eventually emerged and they were also in the same range. I recall my parents not being able to afford them and if I ever did jet a jersey I would feel guilty. I got a Mexico ABA Sport jersey from 1996, right before the legendary 98 jersey. I regret not getting that 98 one now. But like I mentioned, the imports were expensive and so were the MLS ones. I also didn’t get the first LA Galaxy jersey because of the price.
Eventually the market for soccer in the US grew and you would eventually have the chance of getting a previous season’s kit for $45 USD.
Either way the story of soccer jerseys around the world is interesting. Awesome video.
Not convinced
Its not called original or replica. They are called player version and regular version. Replicas are what you buy of aliexpress for fraction of money.