--- title: 2014 World Cup Jerseys Already Discounted Big Time description: The "upside" for World Cup soccer fans whose dreams have been crushed is that they can now buy gear featuring the team that broke their hearts for a lot less money. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2014-06-23T17:16:00.000Z' modified: '2014-06-23T17:16:00.000Z' section: Shopping tags: - 2014 World Cup - england - fan gear - fanatics - Fans - Football - Soccer - souvenirs - Spain - Sports - sports gear - sports jerseys - sports merchandise - Three Lions - Wayne Rooney - World Cup word_count: 451 canonical: https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![140623_EM_WCJerseysDiscounted_2](https://img.money.com/2014/06/140623_em_wcjerseysdiscounted_21.jpg) Fans can probably guess the national colors featured on the World Cup gear that's being discounted more than two weeks before the tournament comes to an end. They're those of Spain and England, arguably the 2014 World Cup's two most disappointing teams. Both of the seemingly promising squads were eliminated early on in the tournament, crushing the hopes of home fans—and simultaneously killing the consumer demand for team merchandise. At the FIFA online store, [Spain's Away black-and-green jersey](http://store.fifa.com/39821.html) is marked down to $59.99 (originally $89.99). Ditto that discounted price for Spain's red home jersey as well. At sports gear specialist [Fanatics.com](http://www.fanatics.com/Soccer_2014_World_Soccer/Spain_adidas_2014_World_Soccer_Replica_Home_Jersey_-_Red), Spain's home jersey, originally priced at $89.95, has been marked down to a sale price of $79.99, and then discounted an extra 30% during a special Monday sale, lowering the price to $55.99. Similarly, a neon green [Spain training jersey](http://www.fanatics.com/Soccer_Spain/Spain_adidas_2014_World_Soccer_Training_Jersey_%E2%80%93_Neon_Green) is on sale for $23.79 (originally $44.95). It's hard to tell whether Spain or England has been more of a disappointment to home fans. [Spain's loss to Chile](http://soccer.si.com/soccer/planet-futbol/2014/06/18/spain-out-world-cup-chile-brazil), which eliminated the defending 2010 World Cup champion from the current tournament, came as a complete shock to most of the soccer world, and to fans in Spain in particular. England has a long history of breaking the hearts of its supporters, but the team's performance was so poor, and its exit was so quick, that it left some of the world's most rabid soccer fans utterly depressed. The [*Daily Mail*](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2662751/10-000-England-fans-descend-Sao-Paulo-critical-Uruguay-World-Cup-clash-drizzle-overcast-skies-home-away-home.html) noted last week that after Costa Rica upset Italy, thereby eliminating England from the tournament after only two matches, folks in England were too bummed to get out of bed. There was reportedly a 20% increase nationally in workers calling in sick. "Sick calls began at around 11pm on Thursday night as England fans began licking their wounds," the *Daily Mail* article stated. England jerseys and other gear appear to still be selling at full price in the U.S. market, but things are different back home for the Three Lions. By this past weekend, stores all over England had slashed prices on a wide range of World Cup team merchandise and souvenirs. Coffee mugs, water bottles, napkins, Teddy bears, rubber duckies, and more featuring Team England have been marked down by 70% in supermarkets and other stores in the UK, according to the [*Mirror*](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/world-cup-souvenirs-hit-rock-3747373). Even so, it'll be a hard sell to convince disappointed fans that the prices on any of this merchandise are enough to make them buy. "I for one won't be buying any of that stuff," one fan in a Leeds store told the *Mirror*. "We are out. What's done is done and I won't be waving my England flag around -- even if it is half price." ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Shopping", "item": "https://money.com/shopping/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Apparel", "item": "https://money.com/apparel/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "2014 World Cup Jerseys Already Discounted Big Time" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/", "name": "2014 World Cup Jerseys Already Discounted Big Time", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2014-06-23T17:16:00.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2014-06-23T17:16:00.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "2014 World Cup Jerseys Already Discounted Big Time", "articleSection": "Shopping", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2014/06/140623_em_wcjerseysdiscounted_21.jpg", "width": 5212, "height": 3468, "caption": "140623_EM_WCJerseysDiscounted_2" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2014-06-23T17:16:00.000Z", "description": "The \"upside\" for World Cup soccer fans whose dreams have been crushed is that they can now buy gear featuring the team that broke their hearts for a lot less money.", "abstract": "The \"upside\" for World Cup soccer fans whose dreams have been crushed is that they can now buy gear featuring the team that broke their hearts for a lot less money.", "@id": "https://money.com/2014-world-cup-jerseys-gear-discounts/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2014-06-23T17:16:00.000Z", "wordCount": 451, "keywords": [ "2014 World Cup", "england", "fan gear", "fanatics", "Fans", "Football", "Soccer", "souvenirs", "Spain", "Sports", "sports gear", "sports jerseys", "sports merchandise", "Three Lions", "Wayne Rooney", "World Cup" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Shopping", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Clothing", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing" ] } ] } ] } ```