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Boca Juniors breaks with tradition

11/01/2013
One of Argentina’s biggest football clubs, Boca Juniors, has broken with more than a century of tradition and brought out a purple shirt. The new shirt, made by Nike, went on sale on January 11. It’s a limited-edition top that the team will wear only for a summer tournament (taking place between the two halves of the main league season to help teams get back to match fitness).

Purple is a new colour for Boca, which, since 1907, has used blue and yellow as its main colours.

Urban legend suggests the club had to give up on a previous black-and-white striped shirt because it lost a challenge match against another club for the right to keep that colour scheme. Members of the Boca club held a meeting overlooking the River Plate to discuss which colours they should change to and decided that the colours on the flag of the next ship to sail past, which happened to be Swedish, would hold sway.

Players will wear the new purple shirt for the first time in a match against Racing Club on January 13. Nike confirmed that the new kit is made 100% from polyester from post-consumer recycled plastic bottles.

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