Why Italian teams dress in blue?
Talking about “home” and “away” uniforms is kind of misleading nowadays, because the teams don’t wear different uniforms when they play home and away; they have a main one, which is worn almost always, and then one or two others that can be used when the opposing team wears the same colors. So yours is a very interesting question, because Italy’s main uniform is, like you said, the blue one, and it has become so important in the identity of italian sport that the italian athletes are called “azzurri” and the national teams are called “squadra azzurra” (blue team). In fact, the answer is very simple: like in the Netherlands, the blue was chosen because it was the colour of the royal house. It happened in 1911, when Italy used to play in white. There was a football match against Hungary, who also played in white, and so the italians thought that it was their duty as hosts to wear a different uniform so that the teams wouldn’t play in the same colours. They chose the blue colour because i
