10 kits that defined MLS' aesthetic Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the US soccer league

Tonight, at BBVA Compass Stadium in Huston, the American professional championship - MLS - will reach a memorable date: 25 years of history. It is a championship that is still young, but which, in its short path, has built its own aesthetic envelope. A still niche reality - it is the 66th championship in the FIFA world ranking - capable of sinking its roots in one of the most beautiful aesthetic periods of football, the nineties, and for this reason, its tradition of jerseys is inspired by that period.  

In 1996, when MLS was founded at The Palladium in New York, the fluorescent jerseys of Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, went crazy, and very few years have passed since the USA '94 World Cup - a fundamental event in the evolution of football in the United States; the MLS jerseys of those years were inspired precisely by the trends of imaginative templates seen in Europe, with the result that the championship, season after season, has matured both in the structures, and (slowly) in the technical level and in the construction of its own culture. 

To celebrate mls birthday, here are the 10 most iconic jerseys in its history, chosen from the many exhibited in these twenty-five years by the thirty teams that participated in the tournament. 

1- Colorado Rapids - 2000

The uniform with which DC United debuted in MLS (that, in 2017, also hosted Wayne Rooney's talent with Washington's team for a few months), is aesthetically linked to the technical sponsor adidas, which provided the kits to all clubs. On a black-based template, in fact, stand out the three adidas stripes that run horizontally on the chest and also wrap the logo of the Washington team. The uniform was completed very well with the shorts, in a red-black coupling that, despite a reshuffle of the pattern (the stripes were removed from the first floor of the uniforms in 2005), remained iconic of the DC uniform.