The German national soccer team's jersey is stirring controversy over the number "4" on its design. People say it looks like a lightning bolt from the SS, a Nazi unit in World War II. Adidas said ...

Adidas has banned football fans from customizing the German national shirt with the number 44 due to its similarity to a symbol used by Nazi SS units during World War II. pic.twitter.com ...

A sports jersey is one way for fans to show national pride — but German soccer fans have been banned from customizing theirs with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the lightning bolts ...

The moves to withdraw shirts with number 44 came ... the German Football Association recently announced that Nike would be replacing Adidas as the official kit supplier of its national teams ...

The German Football Association (DFB) said Monday it would change the typeface used on its shirts after one of the kit numbers drew comparisons to a Nazi symbol. The number four worn by national ...

Screenshot: Courtesy of Michael König Adidas has banned fans from personalizing the German national team jersey with the number “44” after ... out that the German Football Association ...

The German football team has ... an alternative design for the number 4 and coordinate it with UEFA.' Adidas had earlier said that they would remove the number 44 from their range of customisation ...

Nike executives, who recently signed a $100 million deal to equip the German national football team ... Adidas-made German team jersey with the number 44 could become popular in the far-right ...

BERLIN — The German Football ... Before the number 44 controversy, a number of terms linked to the Nazis were already prohibited by the personalization service. Germany’s national shirts ...

German sportswear giant Adidas announced on Monday that it would cease the online sales of the German national team jersey bearing the number 44 due to its inadvertent resemblance to a ...

Presumably, for a laugh, they’d like to order a German football top with the 44/SS on the back with the ... Dassler (hence “Adi-Das) joined the National Socialist Party in 1933, the year ...