FC Bihor, 15th out of 22 teams in League 2 in football, launched a special shirt, with stylized elements from Bihor folklore and the architecture of the city of Oradea.
The t-shirts of the people of Oradea PHOTO Facebook FC Bihor Oradea
The FC Bihor club, which recently installed former international Claudiu Keșeru as sports director, officially launched a unique game shirt of the football team on Thursday.
The launch event took place in the conference room of the Țării Crișurilor Museum (MTC), in the presence of the director of the MTC, Gabriel Moisa – great football enthusiast, and the museographer dr. Simona Bala, from the Ethnography Section. On behalf of FC Bihor, the president of the club, George Tătar, three footballers and other staff members were present.
The new equipment is inspired by the traditional folklore of Bihor, with stylized elements, as well as by the beauty of the Art Nouveau buildings in Oradea, schematically represented especially in the lower part of the shirt. The jersey sleeves and numbers on the jersey are decorated with specific solar motifs intended to “helps the players mentally and identity”to bring “abundance, success and divine protection“.
The unusual design for a football kit is, according to the second division club’s president, George Tatar, “the connection between past and present, between rural and urban, between tradition and performance“.
A T-shirt costs 240 lei
The idea of this special equipment belongs to Tătar, who saw it at a team in Italy. Together with his friend, the former judo world champion Florin Lascău, the project took shape on two napkins, at a tea party, where the former sportsman had penciled the Church with the Moon and the Oradea Citadel.
“It all started from there. And now, we have arrived here to launch it. I want to thank all our partners and collaborators who were involved in this project, from Visit Oradea, Utopium, Mrs. Anca Banda from the Beiuș Culture House, Mr. Mayor Gabriel Popa, from Beiuș, the Folkloric Ensemble from the Beiuș House of Culture and, of course, the main partner, the Museum of the Country of the Crișulirs“, said the president of the club.
Museographer Simona Bala mentioned that, in addition to the fact that clothes protect the human body, “they display a status and even a pragmatic motivation to attract wealth and favor”.
The new equipment was presented by the players Ioan Filip, Andrei Moga and the Dutchman Desley Ubbink, who arrived this winter. Several supporters present at the launch had the opportunity to purchase their new t-shirts, at the price of 240 lei, simple, without sponsor inscriptions, or for 290 lei, with the logos of the supporting companies.
