South Africa World Cup Mystic Football Team Uniform Begins In June 11Th.

Richard Smith (RichardSmith) plans to sell the soccer team uniform of the most mysterious and totalitarian country in the world before the World Cup June 11th.

But he is not optimistic about it.

It is a proud thing for Smith to sell the uniform of all 32 teams in this year's World Cup in South Africa.

Smith is the general manager of Subside SportsLtd., clothing company of Exeter, England (Exeter).

To achieve this goal, Smith and his partners must find the uniform of the North Korean football team.

They have launched an action similar to Easter egg hunting around the world to contact garment manufacturers from all over the world from Mexico to China.

According to the past situation, Korean soccer is not expected to be great in this world cup.

Most of the mystical Democratic People's Republic of Korea players have played in their isolated local league, and the fans know little about the league.

The North Korean team will face the first battle in June 15th.

Adidas (Adidas AG) and Nike Inc. (Nike) have made many matches for many national teams, but the task of making uniforms for those unknown national teams sometimes falls on some small companies.

China's Hongxing Erke Group has made a jersey for Korean athletes in recent years, but the Korean team's team uniform was not made by the company.

Some vendors have speculated that Mexico's Pirma is willing to take up the task.

In March 17th this year, in the warm-up match between Mexico City and Mexico, the Korean team quickly provided them with a battle jacket due to the delay of their luggage.

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Julio Villalobos Villalobos, head of Pirma apparel accessories department, said shortly after that, the company began negotiations with North Korea on the provision of the world cup jerseys. (Julio)

But he said the two sides failed to reach an agreement: "they have repeatedly lowered prices, so we finally said," we can't make a deal. "

The DPRK did not respond to our request for comment through its mission to the United Nations.

In a recent warm-up match between North Korea and Greece, the North Korean team wore a Jersey made by Astore, a Spanish clothing company.

But Michel Gogniat, head of Astore's sales department, said the company had not signed a formal contract with North Korea, Michael Gore Ritt.

On the contrary, he said that Astore, without knowing it, sold the shirt with no national logo to a Chinese middleman, and the middleman sold the shirts to the North Korean football team.

After months of hard work, Smith finally found some answers in early May.

An Asian friend told him that the North Korean football team had signed a contract with Italian company LegeaSRL.

However, Smith is still not sure whether his company can order the shirts before the World Cup begins.

Legea Sales Manager Lorenzo Grimaldi (Lorenzo Grimaldi) confirmed that the company signed a contract with the Korean football team.

Grimaldi said the contract was signed in early February of this year in Italy, Pompei, before the negotiations between Pirma and North Korea.

Legea hopes that the jersey with the company logo will appear in front of TV audiences around the world, so they will bear the cost of making Korean soccer team uniform and other official costumes.

Facts have proved that it is very difficult for the DPRK team uniform to be put into the market by the east wind of the world cup.

The North Korean football team wants the uniforms to have a personalized design, including the use of "no fabric on the product catalog," Grimaldi recalls.

Legea in order to explain some details, the design memo is plated into Korean, for example, how big the Korean flag and Legea logo should be in order to meet the world cup standard.

"This really slows down the pace of our work," Grimaldi said.

The North Korean Jersey has not yet been sold on any website.

Legea's price for the jacket is 45 euros (US $56) per piece to 50 euros (US $62).

No one can tell why the business of Korean team uniforms is so difficult, said Jim Noonan, marketing vice president of Sports Endeavors Inc., Hillsborough, North Carolina.

"I don't think DPRK is trying to cause trouble," he said. "They may just be ill prepared."

Finding the jersey of the North Korean national team is just one of the many challenges that businesses who want to sell Korean goods face.

Considering the unpopularity of the North Korean government and the fact that North Korea's closed door policy has prevented businessmen from reaching out to local consumers, vendors including South Korea have no high expectations for the sales of fresh souvenirs in the world cup's biggest upset team.

So far, Korean souvenirs such as "I love Korean soccer" have sold only 0.025% of the souvenir sales of North Korea's World Cup.

The selling price of the baby's clothing is 12.99 dollars.

As to whether it is moral to earn money by Kim Jong-il's favorite football team, retailers say they are not worried.

"We are a football company," Smith said.

"We are not political judges.

We operate textiles. "

"I have soccer teams in Iran, Venezuela and all the evil axis countries," says Philip, an art designer in Michigan, Ben Phillip.

He is selling a T-shirt from the North Korean football team.

"I don't think it's a big deal."

Even if the seller can't get the North Korean football team's uniforms this year, they can still count on a set of Jerseys: that is the retro version of the Jersey.

Subside sells shirts from national teams from 2008 to 1966, while another England company ToffsLtd. also sells the 1966 style.

Alan Finch Finch, Toffs co owner and chief executive, said that no matter how controversial the shirt was, his company would normally meet the demands of customers, and they would not hesitate to produce the retro version of the Korean national football team in.

Finch was only 18 when he hosted the world cup in England in 1966.

He recalled the preference for the North Korean football team at that time, when the undesirable team accidentally beat Italy and entered the 1/4 finals.

"At that time, they were a favorite big upset," he said.