What is the “symbolic” story of the yellow shirt for the Brazilians?
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Many football fans around the world track the distinguished enthusiastic performance that was associated with the Brazilian yellow shirt.
This shirt is a global symbol of joy, as it calls for pictures of the greatest players in this beautiful game they play in the best ways.
The shirt became synonymous with the glory of the Brazilian football, its charm and its pleasure, as players like Pele, Jerzinho, Zico and Socrates, who moved the football world to a new level in the second half of the twentieth century.
Carlos Alberto, the Brazilian captain at the time of winning the World Cup in 1970, says that the yellow national team shirt is “sacred to the Brazilians”, stressing that he feels proud when he wore it, “but he pays his wearing a sense of responsibility to inspire and delight the fans.”
The Brazilian shirt became one of the most prominent shirts of the game, as the players wears a yellow shirt with green edges, a bluish blue pants with white lines, and a pair of white socks, which are distinctive colors that cannot be mixed with the colors of any other team.
If you walk on a street in one of the major cities in the world, you are likely to meet a person wearing the Brazilian national team, and often holds the number ten. On his back.
However, many people do not often know how Brazil wore this yellow color, and if it wore others at any time earlier.
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Insulting Brazil
This story is due to the defeat of the Brazil team at home to Uruguay 2-1 in the 1950 World Cup final, which was held in Brazil.
This moment is a turning point in the history of Brazilian football. The feelings of discontent were severe, and the colors of the team’s shirt were not prevented.
With the launch of the Uruguay striker, Alasedis Gigia, to celebrate his goal against Brazil, he noticed that the new Maracana Stadium suddenly silence.
“Three people managed to make the Marakana Stadium silent: they are Frank Sinatra, the Pope, and I.”
The Brazilian national team was wearing white shirts, blue, white short pants and white socks, which are not expressive of the country’s national spirit. It also does not reflect the Brazilian flag in which the green color represents the vast areas of the forests, and the yellow color represents the raw wealth of the country, and the blue color represents the globe and white stars the sky of Rio de Janeiro at night.
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new beginning
This was the right moment for a new start. In 1953, the Corio da Manha newspaper announced a competition to design a new shirt for the Brazil team, and the main base in it was the use of the four Brazilian flag colors, and the winning design will wear the team in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland.
The then -Garcia Shelli was 18 years old when he participated in that competition, and he was working in a newspaper.
Among his small town Pelotas in Rio Grande de Sol, close to the border with Uruguay, drew 100 different design colors in a different way. Try the green and yellow circles on the shirt, with blue pants. He also tried the seven -seven pens and designs.
“In the end, I realized that the shirt must be yellow green collar, and it is consistent with the blue color, and socks can be white,” she said.
Among the 401 roses for the competition, this design attracted the rulers’ look of its simplicity and the consistency of its colors. Another simple design came with a green shirt, white pants and yellow socks.
The Brazilian national team played the new shirts for the first time in March 1954, when he defeated Chile at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. In the next World Cup, four years later, Brazil won the World Cup for the first time after the Swedish team was defeated in Stockholm.
The irony was that the Brazilian team won the cup for the first time wearing blue shirts, as Sweden was wearing yellow.
“We did not have alternative shirts, and the Brazilian Football Association refused to wear white again. So, they bought 22 blue shirts when we arrived in Stockholm, and they set the codes on it,” says Carlos Alberto.
In 1962, Brazil held the World Cup for the first time wearing the yellow shirt.
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Distinguished performance … in colors
The media coverage of this event remained in black and white. Football fans could not see this yellow shirt until 1970 in Mexico, in the first championship broadcast on color TV.
The fans watched a team playing football in an unprecedented way, whose players wear shirts that reflect sunlight, and they are delighted to millions.
“Pele was the best player I saw in my life. This was the best team ever, and it could not be compared to today’s team,” says Alberto.
Alberto added that the 1982 team, with its players Zico and Socrates, had approached the cup, but he did not win it that year.
The Italian player Alessandor Del Piero, who played 91 games for his country and achieved the 2006 World Cup victory, told the BBC that he grew up with the passion in a way that played the Brazilians.
He added: “Italy won the World Cup in 1982, but the Brazilian national team was the team that captured the imagination of everyone. As a child, the yellow shirts were distinctive, as were the way they played captivating. From that moment, I always feel a link towards them that they are close to my heart.”
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“Don’t feel proud”
But how did the case end with the designer of this shirt? Shelli is now 79 years old, and he still lives in Bilotas with his wife Marilyn. He had moved for a while to work in the newspaper that announced the competition in Rio de Janeiro.
At some point, he decided to live with Brazil players, but Rio’s life was not suitable for the shy southern young man. The use of alcohol and women controlled the lives of the players, so he moved away.
Although the shirt designed by Sheley became a money machine, he did not change anything from his lifestyle.
In 1996, Nike signed a deal with a hundred million pounds with the Brazilian Football Association,To be a resource for the play team and a co -sponsor of the Brazilian national team. At that time, that was the largest deal in history that included a government party.
However, Shelli says that he does not feel proud of what he accomplished, commenting: “In fact, it was not so important to me. Maybe I feel a little guilt because I made something that is no longer pure as it was before. Something became materially material.”
The Brazilian people will not forget what Shelli gave them, and although there may be anger and indifference towards this year’s competition, the Brazilians still appreciate the shirt.
Brazil did not win the World Cup until it wore the yellow color. Since 1953, Brazil won the cup five times, so will they achieve this for the sixth time?
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