Barcelona Retro Shirts

The list of legendry players who have worn the famous Barcelona shirt over the years seems endless: Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Stoichkov, Laudrup, Figo, Thuram, Overmars, Hagi, Koeman, Messi, Davids.

The famous scarlet and blue striped shirt worn by the above players has remained largely unchanged for the last 100 years. The club is widely known as the ‘Blaugrana’ in reference to the names of these colours in the Catalan language. The origins of the shirt design still remain some what of a mystery, it is possible that the colours for the shirt were taken from Crosby’s Merchant Taylor’s School in Merseyside. One of Barcelona’s first players was Englishman Arthur Witty who had been a pupil at the school which used the colours for it’s sports teams.

The Barça shirt has gone on to become one of the most recognisable football shirt designs of all time. It’s also worth noting that FC Barcelona have resisted putting commercial sponsorship on the shirt, instead they display the logo of the charity UNICEF and donate time and money to support the organizations work around the world.

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