As if we didn’t have a few troubles and debates with the latest problems in football (recurring racism, hasty elections in the Federation and Rubiales’ troubles), now the issue of shirts comes to the fore. The color of the shirts. That of the new kits and designs of the teams that have fallen into the hands of stylists and merchandising and that are making the fans dizzy and producing a general schizophrenia. That one looks at the television and no longer knows which team is playing or who is wearing white merengue, grimy matchstick or very delicate pink… And, consequently, one also understands the confusion that this can create, even, among the protagonists of the game.
Suddenly they have to dress in the opponent’s colors, change the symbols, flags and insignia. And, thus, it is excusable that they make mistakes in the pass and even get upset in the different moments of the game. What the hell is it about combining fashion, elegance and tradition? Here we play football and we have some principles, some anthems and some flags. What do we do, then, with the letters: “blau-grana al vent”, “defending your colors”, “green and white is the path…”? Do we create other slogans, do we throw overboard our alirones and identity music? And the creators of this confusion are not very aesthetically inspired to receive many congratulations either. That have generated real eyesores for us: the crooked red and white stripes, the lions’ ketchup shirts or the Guijuelo hams… The parish goes to football to spend the afternoon and have fun, not to return home scared, with imaginary color blindness problems or macular degeneration, with the worry or need to go to the eye doctor the next day. A little order and coherence, gentlemen, let’s not distort the essence and history of the clubs for the four euros from the sale of the new sneakers. Colors and shields are a sporting taboo, the watchword of our hobbies. They are sacred. They don’t touch each other. They don’t touch each other.
Can you imagine what Don Santiago Bernabéu would have said if he had attended the last Real Madrid-Athletic duel, with the Madridistas in cobalt blue with pinks and the lions in stolen white? But what colors – what the hell – is this!
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2024-04-10 02:01:16
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