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Cape Town - Adidas on Wednesday launched the South African national football team’s away jersey which they will wear during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

The jersey will be worn for the first time when Bafana Bafana play Namibia at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Wednesday evening. Kick-off is at 20:30.

“The new away kit, which features a unique new mixture of Twilight and Forrest Green will further identify the hosts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Like the current yellow home jersey, this green jersey is without doubt one of the most important and iconic that adidas, as the national team’s official technical sponsor has ever designed,” says Zobuzwe Ngobese, the PR Manager at adidas South Africa

The green away jersey design was also influenced by the diversity of our country and its 11 main communities and languages spoken – all of which will be unified behind our country and team during the World Cup. The jersey incorporates 11 threads that symbolise this diversity in unity and modern interpretations of traditional South African artwork. It celebrates the pride of our host nation by displaying the centre of the national flag on its front.

The jersey design was also completed with African art print on the collar in order to be consistent with the home jersey.

“We are excited about the final product that adidas has delivered to us following numerous consultations about the design of the jersey. The design of the change strip is consistent with the one seen on the home jersey. Our team now has a complete set of home and away jerseys and we will use both strips with pride during the World Cup,” says Leslie Sedibe, the chief executive officer of SAFA.