New White FC Barcelona Kit Sparks Fury Online For Real Madrid Ties

The leaking of images of FC Barcelona’s alleged new white away kit for the upcoming season by Footy Headlines has sparked fury online because of the color’s association with bitter rivals Real Madrid.

Barca’s first choice shirt usually comes in their traditional Blaugrana colors and nothing will change in that respect next term when they will be defending La Liga champions.

Each season, however, the colors vary for the second, third and fourth shirts. In the 2022/2034 campaign, Barca went for a gold design which has a map of the city engraved into into its background, plus a grey effort with blaugrana crosses. The fourth shirt comes in Catalana ‘senyera’ colors of red and yellow.

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Images of Barca’s home shirt for 2023/2024 were revealed online some time ago. On Thursday, however, the same source as usual, Footy Headlines, leaked pictures of an alleged new white second shirt which will be used on the road when the host team’s colors clash with Barca’s usual attire.

Mundo Deportivo pointed out that FC Barcelona often wore white in the 1910s, and in fact a jersey in this shade was their main shirt until 1913. Additionally, the color was also used in European competitions in the 50s, 60s and 70s which has led to an image of club legend Johan Cruyff resurfacing and donning it.

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Online, though, there was backlash with the newspaper’s columnist and common detractor of president Joan Laporta, Marcal Lorente, leading the criticism.

“Barça will wear white,” Lorente tweeted. “As much as they wore it in some specific matches in the past, white is not the identity color and is associated with the eternal rival.

“I can’t imagine Madrid dressed in blaugrana. Symbols cannot be sold for Marketing and money,” Lorente added.

“The current vice-president, Elena Fort, called it ‘sh*t’ that the advertising letters on the Barca shirt were white in 2013. Today, with her at the club, it will seem fine to her that white is the color of the entire Barça shirt. They are multiplying x 1000 what they criticized,” he concluded.

“I do not like this at all. What an embarrassment,” commented a Barca fan on Lorente’s twitter post.

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“Regrettable!!!” lamented another, as someone else said that while they liked the shirt, they “wouldn’t wear white”.

Looking on the bright side of life, many Twitter users joked that Barca might finally have things go their way with the referees if they wear white moving forward.