The Zaire team during World Cup Qualification - this time with white shorts!
Zaire's green and yellow strip is one of the iconic kits from the 1970s World Cups. They actually wore different variations of the colours for each of their games in West Germany. For the opener against Scotland they sported yellow shirts with green shorts, whilst in the second ill-fated match against Yugoslavia they wore all-green. For the final game against Brazil, the green shirts remained but were accompanied this time by yellow shorts, matching their opponents' equally striking kit.
Both the yellow and green shirts featured a huge picture of a leopard attacking a football, although the green shirts used in West Germany were slightly different to those used in the qualification games in that they sported a yellow rather than a red leopard. Retro versions of Zaire's World Cup shirts are still available and extremely popular today.
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