Spanish football giants Barcelona have officially presented their new home kit for next season – and its safe to say the offering that will be worn by Lionel Messi and Co. has met with a mixed response online.
The mighty Blaugrana revealed the kit on Twitter, proudly showing off a new design featuring “checkerboard print” for the first time in the clubs illustrious history – dispensing with the traditional horizontal stripes in various forms.
The kit is made by US sportswear giant Nike and will be donned by mens stars such as Messi, Luis Suarez and Gerard Pique, but also have the same look for the clubs womens team as well as basketball, handball and futsal teams.
Unveiling the new design, the club ran with the tagline “Talent Takes Different Shapes.”
“The new design takes its inspiration from the city of Barcelona by incorporating the characteristic blocks of its Eixample district, home to some of the most emblematic buildings designed by the great architect Antoni Gaudí,” the club explained on its website.
But the Twitterati – and football fans in particular – can be a fastidious bunch, and many did not hold back in giving the club a dressing-down for dispensing with what was a widely loved previous style.
Some accused the club of “destroying a historic kit,” while others simply branded the offering “embarrassing.”
Destroying a historic kit
— Adrian (@Adrian____29) June 3, 2019
Use me as a dislike button
— Youssef Benamar (@Youssefbanana) June 3, 2019
This is unacceptable. This is embarrassment.
— Jano (@Janoblansaer) June 3, 2019
It also unleashed a meme frenzy from fans desperate for the club to reverse the seemingly irreversible and replace the kit with anRead More – Source
Spanish football giants Barcelona have officially presented their new home kit for next season – and its safe to say the offering that will be worn by Lionel Messi and Co. has met with a mixed response online.
The mighty Blaugrana revealed the kit on Twitter, proudly showing off a new design featuring “checkerboard print” for the first time in the clubs illustrious history – dispensing with the traditional horizontal stripes in various forms.
The kit is made by US sportswear giant Nike and will be donned by mens stars such as Messi, Luis Suarez and Gerard Pique, but also have the same look for the clubs womens team as well as basketball, handball and futsal teams.
Unveiling the new design, the club ran with the tagline “Talent Takes Different Shapes.”
“The new design takes its inspiration from the city of Barcelona by incorporating the characteristic blocks of its Eixample district, home to some of the most emblematic buildings designed by the great architect Antoni Gaudí,” the club explained on its website.
But the Twitterati – and football fans in particular – can be a fastidious bunch, and many did not hold back in giving the club a dressing-down for dispensing with what was a widely loved previous style.
Some accused the club of “destroying a historic kit,” while others simply branded the offering “embarrassing.”
Destroying a historic kit
— Adrian (@Adrian____29) June 3, 2019
Use me as a dislike button
— Youssef Benamar (@Youssefbanana) June 3, 2019
This is unacceptable. This is embarrassment.
— Jano (@Janoblansaer) June 3, 2019
It also unleashed a meme frenzy from fans desperate for the club to reverse the seemingly irreversible and replace the kit with anRead More – Source
