THE GREAT INTERNET ODYSSEY
Do you shout ‘¡Viva la furia roja!’ but are furious when you can’t find the latest Spain football shirt? Or are you simply unable to find the latest football shirt that your team has released?
This is exactly the problem that my brother and I had when we were searching for two Spain 2011 home jerseys (with the Official World Cup winners’ badge) in our sizes. After searching in South African stores for hours, and enduring our parents’ exasperated comments when we said we were going to try ‘just one more shop', we decided that we were only going to be able to find these shirts on the Internet.
Our first stop on the great Internet odyssey was the Spain-based ‘La Liga shop’, where they had what we wanted, but the only remaining shirts were in small men’s sizes. Which was fine for me, but the idea of forking out R700 for a piece of clothing that would look like a dress on him did not appeal to my brother Xavi. We then found that most of the American stores had the shirts we wanted/needed (depending on whose side of the argument you take.) but didn’t deliver to SA. We thought to ourselves, ‘these Americans are just plain selfish, and couldn’t care less about us‘.
After this heartbreaking disappointment, we came across UK soccershop, where we found not only the shirts we wanted/needed, but good prices, and on top of all this luxury/necessity they also delivered to SA. We then purchased one David Silva #21 and one Andres Iniesta #6 shirts, with the gold World Cup winners badge! (Sorry, I simply have to boast!) Our only worry was whether or not the South African Post Office would something scary to them! But despite our concerns the shirts arrived on the 14th of June, only seven days after ordering them, and just three days after the anniversary of that historic night in Johannesburg!
So, in a nutshell, if you're looking to buy shirts overseas, I thoroughly recommend UK soccershop.
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