Tarper national football team
Shirt badge/Association crest | |||
Nickname(s) | The Lions The Mint-Blues | ||
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Association | Tarperti Football Federation | ||
Confederation | UFAC | ||
Head coach | Gerhardt Watt | ||
Captain | Ivan Allan | ||
Most caps | Jean-Charles Crisp (150) | ||
Top scorer | Laurence Yates (71) | ||
Home stadium | Federal Olympic Stadium | ||
Code | TAR | ||
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First international | |||
Skerieyvos 5–3 Tarper (Based, Skerieyvos; 5 April 1908) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Tarper 16–0 Eastern Kingdom (Indsnia, Indsniastan; 1 July 1912) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Froiston 9–0 Tarper (Wackford, Froiston; 13 March 1909) | |||
Covenant Championship | |||
Appearances | 13 (first in 1972) | ||
Best result | Champions (1972, 1980, 1996) | ||
The Tarper national football team represents Tarper in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the Tarperti Football Federation (TFF), founded in 1900.
History
Team image
Kits
The national team's home kit has been traditionally a white and blue shirt, black shorts, and white socks. The colors were derived from the flag of the United Kingdoms of Tarper and the Kingdom of Astra. The home kit has had its share of derivations. The first kit was a white shirt with navy shorts and socks. Later on, the team would adopt the blue and white shirt but with white shorts and socks. After the communist takeover, the kit would switch to a gold trimmed crimson shirt with navy blue shorts and socks. The current kit colors were chosen in 2004 as the TFF revised its image after the Second Civil War.
The away colors have remained even more constant than the home colors. The team did not have away colors until 1905, the colors of a black shirt with white trim and white shorts and socks were appropriated from Terraum Olympic, as that was the stadium that the national team was playing on and needed to borrow uniforms from. The communist era would invert the away colors, opting for a black trimmed white shirt with black shorts and white socks. In 2004, the national team would revert to the original colors of a black shirt with white trim and white shorts but choosing to wear blue socks as to resemble the current Flag of Tarper.