Barcelona presents its third kit, which will debut tonight in the friendly against City. The light tone generates a stir among the culé fans
The controversy is served after the official announcement of Barcelona’s third shirt for this season, completely in pearl gray combined with two blaugrana stripes, one vertical and one horizontal, which cross the chest in cross shape. The blaugrana club has decided that it will premiere tonight in the friendly match that Xavi Hernández’s team will play against Manchester City at the Camp Nou and whose funds will go entirely to the fight against ALS. The model is identical to the one that had already been leaked, although with a slight variation. Although in the original the background color was completely white, the pressure to avoid the color that represents its greatest sports enemy, the Real Madrid, has led designers to vary the tone slightly towards a soft gray. So soft that the difference is hardly noticeable but with the Pantone in hand it can be shown that it is not the same color that Ancelotti’s team wears.
Barcelona’s intention with the design is to commemorate the granting of the Saint George’s Cross 30 years ago. This award is one of the highest recognitions that a person or entity can receive from the Government of Catalonia. The distinction was created in 1981 in order to distinguish natural or legal persons who, due to their merits, have provided outstanding services to Catalonia. Any citizen, group of citizens or entity can request that this award be granted to any person, whether physical or legal. The Barcelona The new shirt will alternate with the second kit, in purple, which he wore last Sunday at the Reale Arena against Real Sociedad.
Tonight we will premiere the third kit in the match against Manchester City at the Spotify Camp Nou.
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Keep in mind that this kit began to be designed under the mandate of Joseph Maria Bartomeu, since the companies that manufacture the shirts (in the case of Barcelona, Nike) start to do so two seasons in advance. The American multinational presented a groundbreaking and completely unexpected design with white and the cross as the main elements. The former president was not able to validate the proposal in the face of the avalanche of complaints that he knew he was going to report to him. An unnecessary controversy in a mandate already controversial in itself. The proposal was parked but the arrival of The door to the presidency he reactivated it. Then it was even leaked that Barcelona could recover the white color with which he played until the end of the 70s but that he was banished because of his relationship with Real Madrid. Johan Cruyff He came to wear this shirt and the Catalan club thus won a Latin Cup against Nice in 1952.
White disappeared from the scene without anyone being able to explain the exact moment in which it became a forbidden color despite the fact that Samitier, Kubala or Cruyff had worn it in the past. In the 1992 Kappa jersey a white stripe on the sleeves where the logo of the aforementioned brand appeared generated a heated controversy among the fans and since then white has been banned. We will have to see the reaction tonight Camp Nou. The fans will decide.
