The famous football club «Heerenveen» from the Netherlands presented a new a set of uniforms for the upcoming season, in the colors of which the Russian flag is clearly visible on the sleeves. Fans rioted on social media, demanding the team's management urgently change the color scheme of their favorite club's jersey. However, Heerenveen did not see anything wrong with the situation.
«I want an explanation right now» At the end of the last season, «Heerenveen» finished eighth, and the club's best achievement in more than a century of history is the second place in the national championship. Despite the absence of the title of the Dutch champion, the team regularly finished high and often played in European competitions, including the Champions League.
Heerenveen has received such famous players as Jon Dahl Tomasson, Georgios Samaras, Bas Dost, Denzel Dumfries , Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Martin Odegaard, Afonso Alves. By the way, Russian Igor Korneev also played for the club. In general, this is a pretty strong team at the European level, so there was a certain attention to the presentation of its new kit.
When Heerenveen published pictures from the kit presentation for next season, fans immediately noticed the presence of colors very much reminiscent of the Russian flag on the sleeves of the game jersey. And then the madness began. Fans in the comments under the publication on the official pages of the club in social networks began to upload photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Someone was ironic, and someone was furious and annoyed.
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"It's just awful. What an ugly shirt! Why is there a Russian flag on the sleeve? — wrote marco_1990_nb.
«What is this, Putin's new army? How stupid the designer turned out to be,» said aukerijpkema. >»Obviously, this is the Russian flag. I demand an explanation right now,» said robschuddebeurs.
«And I love Putin,» admitted milann1802.
«Prepare for the fact that this form will be canceled» , — said jg0561.
«Heerenveen» will not change formHowever, no one in the club is going to change anything in the design of the new form. Moreover, Martin Koopman, commercial director of Heerenveen, said that he was annoyed by the hype on social networks around a T-shirt whose sleeve colors remind someone of the Russian flag.
“There are people who associate with the situation in the world, which everyone would like to resist. We find it very annoying and unpleasant that they perceive it this way. But I see the sleeve with the colors of our club, and the only flag that I think of is the Frisian flag,» Koopman quotes AD. The idea of »Heerenveen» was to reflect on the form the elements of the flag of Friesland (one of the provinces of the Netherlands), where white and blue stripes run diagonally. On the white stripes of the flag, seven red egg-pod leaves are depicted, which indicate independent states united by the struggle against the Normans in the Middle Ages. But something went wrong. Perhaps the point is simply not the highest education of the club's fans, who did not recognize the colors of the flag of their native province in this uniform.