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PIC: Radical change is afoot for Barcelona's next jersey

Barcelona's home and away shirts have undergone a few changes here and there over the past few ye...
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14.31 2 Dec 2014


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PIC: Radical change is afoot for Barcelona's next jersey

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14.31 2 Dec 2014


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Barcelona's home and away shirts have undergone a few changes here and there over the past few years.

Shirt sponsors have made their way onto the front of the jersey since 2006, with charities and aid organisations like UNICEF, Qatar Foundation and Qatar Airways featured.

In terms of design for example, the 2008/09 kit saw one large vertical block of blue next to one in red, while the 2012/13 jersey featured one red vertical section down the middle of the shirt.

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But next season's home kit could mark the most radical change of all. Instead of the red and blue vertical stripes they have tended to wear during their 115 year history, Catalan newspaper Sport claim that a shirt featuring red horizontal stripes has been approved for next season.

While changes to the vertical design have been fairly common, moving to horizontal stripes is a ‘Revolution in the new shirt’ as Sport claim.

Of course, financial motives have been mooted with Sport saying that Nike believe shirt sales drop year on year if new designs are too similar to the jerseys from the previous campaign.

Here's what Sport claim the jersey will look like this season...

 


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