NZ women swap white shorts for blue over period anxieties
The HinduThe New Zealand women’s football team will swap their home kit’s white shorts for teal blue to ease players’ period anxieties, the country’s football association said on Monday. “The absence of white shorts now is fantastic for women with any kind of period anxiety,” New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson said. “We can feel comfortable when sometimes we might not have been if it’s your time in the month, so it’s great to move away from white shorts to not having that worry,” added Hemp, a forward for Manchester City, who have also done away with white shorts. New Zealand’s chief executive Andrew Pragnell said that as an organisation, “New Zealand Football wholeheartedly supports the shift away from white shorts for our women’s international players.”
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