Sliding Shorts for Men
Sliding shorts protect your hips during a sliding tackle.
What are the benefits?
Sliding shorts prevent your bare skin from scraping along the ground during a slide. This prevents painful grazes on your thighs. A slide on artificial turf especially, which is particularly rough, can hurt a lot and cause nasty grazes. Besides preventing grazes, sliding shorts have a number of other benefits. For example, sliding shorts protect you against the cold. Some sliding shorts are also compression shorts. In that case, the shorts have a supportive function for the muscles. Blood circulation improves and muscle vibration is reduced. You get tired less quickly and can keep playing football for longer.
You wear sliding shorts underneath your football shorts. The sliding shorts may only show below the football shorts if both pairs are the same colour. If the sliding shorts are a different colour than the football shorts, the sliding shorts must be shorter than the football shorts. It's not strictly enforced, but officially no shorts of a different colour may show below the football shorts.
Washing instructions
To prevent sweat from soaking into your sliding shorts, we recommend washing them soon after the match or training session. Wash the shorts according to the washing instructions, which can be found on the label on the inside of the sliding shorts. Don't use fabric softener. It can damage the technical fabrics of the shorts. Don't put the shorts in the dryer, but hang them on a drying rack instead.
Tip
When trying on the sliding shorts, also put on your football shorts. This way you can properly check whether the sliding shorts fit well.
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