After Atlético announced on its website that from the 24-25 season it will recover its classic shield, a follower in Spain of Union Berlin congratulated the rojiblanca fans on his Twitter account. The image was a drawing with two players from the rojiblanco team, one of them a goalkeeper, raising the shield to the chest of a game shirt. The return to the heart of the only emblem that recognizes the club’s fans.
A congratulation that is more than that, it is the recognition of the triumph of football as always, of the one who only understands passions and not business. And if there is a club that understands that, it is Union Berlin. A club in which the fans are the center of everything. During one of the renovations of the stadium, the Alten Försterei, in the 2008/2009 season, more than 2,300 fans worked as volunteers. And during the 2014 World Cup, the last one Germany won, the club allowed its fans to take their sofas out onto the pitch so they could turn the stadium into a large hall to watch their team’s matches on the big screen.
The Atlético fans have recovered the importance of that feeling in the binding vote to choose between the classic or modern shield. And the classic has won by an overwhelming majority. 77,690 of the 138,881 members that the entity has participated in the vote. 68,894 members voted to recover the old one, according to the statement issued by the club. And only 8,796 preferred to keep the latest version.
«In response to this majority manifestation of our members, as of July 1, 2024 the previous shield will once again be the official one of our club. It is a complex, massive and expensive process, but one that has the commitment of the Board of Directors,” says the Atlético statement.
«The club will take the necessary steps so that the agreed crest can be displayed from next July 1, 2024 on physical supports (stadium, Academy venues, signage), virtual environments, social networks, applications and website, licensees (millions of products of more than 4,000 references) and on third-party media (televisions around the world, competitions, video games), as well as with our technical sponsor, Nike, so that the shield can appear on the kits for the 2024-25 season, despite the fact that they are already in the manufacturing process. The design of the first kit, the rojiblanca, was already approved by the Social Commission in one of its first meetings », he adds.
The vote was celebrated by the rojiblanca fans. «Congratulations to all the mattresses who have kept the faith in defending the symbols that unite us. And united they have managed to reorganize the rojiblanca will to begin to recover them. This tastes of title, against everything and against everyone. Thank you very much for making us see that dedicating our lives to this was not a useless act and wishing that the achievement achieved by the Atlético de Madrid fans helps guide the course of Atleti and other clubs, “says the Señales de Humo association.
For the season that begins today, Atlético will maintain the latest version of the shield, which will coexist with the first in its history on the second kit that honors the club’s 120th anniversary.
2023-06-30 19:50:07
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