2017/18 · Away

This is the 2017/18 away kit, not the home one: Nike dressed Werder in white with thin horizontal green pinstripes and lime green details on the cuffs and collar, the reverse of the home shirt's deep dark green. It is Nike's last season in Bremen before the switch to Umbro, with Wiesenhof, the German poultry company, on the chest since 2013.

Here at Hoopster, this is Werder's quiet half: while the dark green gets the posters, this white alternate quietly repeats, in thin stripes, the same old promise under different light.