why does India wear a blue jersey in all sports when the colors in its flag are saffron, white and green>?
601072
to do away with our blues!!!
1125591
I thought Hinduism was the dominant religion there... if you are talking about the sport... back in the day India was a British colony... cricket is a British sport... makes sense to me.
518036
The Italian national team wear blue because it is the colour of Savoia, the ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until the end of the second world war, the Italian flag always had the Savoy coat of arms in the centre, and it was only after the family were overthrown,and the Italian Republic established in 1946, that the plain \ntricolor was adopted as the national flag."
1004424
azzuri is called only the national team of italy because of their color blue .azzuro is blue of the sea in italian
1096002
The laws of the game require goalkeepers to wear colors that are different from the other players and the referees. This is so they are easily identifiable so that the referee does not call handball infractions on the goalkeeper by mistake.  It is a very easy mistake to make if the goalkeeper is not distinct from the other players.
341214
It's the official color of their football (soccer) jersey.
888078
Well Aswin, I will say INDIA bcoz,\n\nIndian team is an international cricket team which represents INDIA governed by BCCI.It started in ENGLAND as a test cricket before many years.In the starting INDIA played well.But in the middle,they struggled a lot by giving the reasons that bowling is not good,pitch is not good,batting is not good....Now-a-days,INDIA is doing well in home as well as outside.Our top batting order is very strong.Current status of Indian cricket is very good. Now the dependency of the team on Sachin has reduced. Every player is equally participating in the victory of the team from top order to a middle order to number 11 player.Now we are winning many matches by building good partnership.Before,we lacked consistency much.If one player falls,all falls immediately.But now we have developed that.We are also able to be consistent.Bowlers are also doing great.Our current status is shown by the cricket ratings.Still we can develop a lot if we does not bring cricket as a politics(which goes on the underneath of the selection procedure.).Coach Greg Chappel has played a vital role in changing the face of Indian cricket team.They work hard to bring their talents out.. Our indian team does its best in every test and moreover they are managed by good team captain and the coach.Captainship under rahul dravid is simply awesome as it can b seen frm de way de team had performed all these days!!greg chappel is shaping a perfect combination in indian cricket team with mix of youth and experience.Although the team needs to improve on some fronts chappel is sure to raise the team to heights that were unknown to many indian fans.The present bunch has everything to make a world cup winner!!!
222181
The Olympics is open to every country in the world so way back when they had chosent the colors for the Olympic flag, they wanted to unite the world. The Olympic flag's colors represent the World united since at least one color on the flag is in any one nation's own flag.
1159315
Because that is the color of the National Team, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
406808
for the same reason they engage in football or cricket or any sports - to show off!! :-)
25005
so as to match up with their camouflage uniform!! its colors differs on the kind of uniform
1148551
Azzurro is sky-blue in Italian. The color of their jerseys.\nSingular male is Azzurro. \nIt turns into Azzurri for plural male.\nThat's why the team is called the Azzurri and one player Azzurro.
1132653
Their jersey's are blue because their team name is Azzurri meaning "The blues" in Italian, hence the blue jerseys.FORZA ITALIA!!
724289
Because God has painted it in blue color.\nCheers !
1048155
Because that is the color of the National Team, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.\n\nNOTE: the Italian flag is green - white - red and NOT red - white -green
1123636
it all depends on who created the uniform, in this case someone who liked blue color.... anyways the Italian team have been always known as "azzurri" that means blue so i dont think they will change it soon
675869
mainly because of media. media has given so much importance to cricket .no other sport in india get better coverage than cricket. also it is the only in which india stands firm with rest of the world unlike football and hockey in  which indian team is far behind than rest of the world