Joma clears up Honduras shirt confusion
14/06/2010
Joma is the official shirt supplier to the Central American team for the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Before the tournament started, one of the Honduran Football Association officials complained about the number of shirts Joma had supplied. But the company has said the matter was a simple misunderstanding.
In the statement, the clothing company said the official who spoke out was unfamiliar with the arrangements it had made to supply shirts for the competition. “We arranged two separate deliveries that, together, constitute all the material that the team needs to prepare for the competition and to compete, with a warm-up trip to Austria and then the World Cup itself in South Africa. We received word from the federation that it wanted to cancel the delivery to Austria because it had changed its hotel arrangements at the last minute and said it would forward a new delivery address. We only learned the new address the day before the warm-up match between Honduras and Belarus at the end of May.”
It said it had managed to get more than enough shirts to the team’s training camp in Austria, meaning that the delivery to the team’s headquarters for the World Cup in South Africa could be smaller. It claimed Joma bore no responsibility for what had happened and put it down to a misunderstanding and a lack of internal communication at the federation.
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