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Thought it might be fun to see whether it looks like teams borrowed any inspiration from their real life counterparts in the same region, or if they just totally went off and did their own thing.
AC Romana
Both the logo and the kit are quite different from designs used for big football teams in Rome. AS Roma has a logo that features the Capitoline Wolf on a gold and red shield, their kit featuring a nice deep red and gold. SS Lazio's logo is a blue and white shield being carried by a gold eagle, with their kit mostly being a light blue and white. No purple to be found, although did briefly wonder if the Kolkata Knight Riders cricket team had any influence on the design here.
CA Buenos Aires
This logo departs quite a bit from teams in Buenos Aires. Boca Juniors have a yellow and blue shield with stars. CA River Plate are also quite different with a red stripe on a white shield. However, it seems possible River Plate's kit provided some inspiration for Buenos Aires as they've both got the diagonal stripe on the front and similar stripey shoulders.
CF Catalunya
Think the best regional comparison here is maybe FC Barcelona, whose logo features a mishmash of colour in a shield with what looks more like a volleyball in the bottom half. Barcelona doesn't appear to have had any influence on Catalunya, unless having a stripey kit counts but even that looks different. This one actually made me think a bit of Calgary Cavalry FC more than anything (but obviously still quite different).
Hollywood Football Club
This club looks basically nothing like Los Angeles FC or Hollywood United FC, who both have logos and kits featuring black and gold. However, it does look like (the probably more popular) LA Galaxy may have had some influence on the design here (if only in colour and some details in the kit).
Reykjavik United
Today I learned Reykjavik really does have a football team (besides just the national team), established way back in 1899 with a hard to spell name: Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur. Their logo and kit look absolutely nothing like Reykjavik United, but it was cool to find out they exist. The Icelandic national team doesn't have any similarities either, but the logo is super cool in its own right.
Schwärzwalder
Think the closest regional comparison we can probably get here is either SC Freiburg or VfB Stuttgart. Freiburg has a black and white logo with an angry birb, some lettering, and red sometimes. Stuttgart also features some red and black in their logo and kit. The only similarity Schwärzwalder has to either team might be their third kit (but even that's a bit of a stretch unless you replace that dark green colouring with black).
Tokyo SC
Safe to say Tokyo SC has also just gone off and done their own thing. In real life, Tokyo FC's logo is a fairly simple blue and red stripey shield with white text. Tokyo SC by contrast has a much more detailed logo with pink, speckled, and pride kit options. I know the Japan national team has had special pink kits so it's possible that served as some inspiration for the primary.. but they could have also just picked this because cherry blossoms.
União São Paulo
This team is fairly comparable to its real life counterparts, São Paulo FC and União FC. Both teams have shield-type logos with red as a primary colour. While still quite different, União São Paulo's logo is probably more comparable to SPFC (mostly because of colouring), while their secondary kit has some resemblance to that used by União FC.
AC RomanaBoth the logo and the kit are quite different from designs used for big football teams in Rome. AS Roma has a logo that features the Capitoline Wolf on a gold and red shield, their kit featuring a nice deep red and gold. SS Lazio's logo is a blue and white shield being carried by a gold eagle, with their kit mostly being a light blue and white. No purple to be found, although did briefly wonder if the Kolkata Knight Riders cricket team had any influence on the design here.
CA Buenos AiresThis logo departs quite a bit from teams in Buenos Aires. Boca Juniors have a yellow and blue shield with stars. CA River Plate are also quite different with a red stripe on a white shield. However, it seems possible River Plate's kit provided some inspiration for Buenos Aires as they've both got the diagonal stripe on the front and similar stripey shoulders.
CF CatalunyaThink the best regional comparison here is maybe FC Barcelona, whose logo features a mishmash of colour in a shield with what looks more like a volleyball in the bottom half. Barcelona doesn't appear to have had any influence on Catalunya, unless having a stripey kit counts but even that looks different. This one actually made me think a bit of Calgary Cavalry FC more than anything (but obviously still quite different).
Hollywood Football ClubThis club looks basically nothing like Los Angeles FC or Hollywood United FC, who both have logos and kits featuring black and gold. However, it does look like (the probably more popular) LA Galaxy may have had some influence on the design here (if only in colour and some details in the kit).
Reykjavik UnitedToday I learned Reykjavik really does have a football team (besides just the national team), established way back in 1899 with a hard to spell name: Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur. Their logo and kit look absolutely nothing like Reykjavik United, but it was cool to find out they exist. The Icelandic national team doesn't have any similarities either, but the logo is super cool in its own right.
SchwärzwalderThink the closest regional comparison we can probably get here is either SC Freiburg or VfB Stuttgart. Freiburg has a black and white logo with an angry birb, some lettering, and red sometimes. Stuttgart also features some red and black in their logo and kit. The only similarity Schwärzwalder has to either team might be their third kit (but even that's a bit of a stretch unless you replace that dark green colouring with black).
Tokyo SCSafe to say Tokyo SC has also just gone off and done their own thing. In real life, Tokyo FC's logo is a fairly simple blue and red stripey shield with white text. Tokyo SC by contrast has a much more detailed logo with pink, speckled, and pride kit options. I know the Japan national team has had special pink kits so it's possible that served as some inspiration for the primary.. but they could have also just picked this because cherry blossoms.
União São PauloThis team is fairly comparable to its real life counterparts, São Paulo FC and União FC. Both teams have shield-type logos with red as a primary colour. While still quite different, União São Paulo's logo is probably more comparable to SPFC (mostly because of colouring), while their secondary kit has some resemblance to that used by União FC.
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