An editorial from FI holds as much weight as an elephant in space
These paragraphs make a good point:
Europe’s grandest football clubs have an identity and tradition which, for example, no NFL team could hope to match. Soccer can never hope to compete with the glamour of the Super Bowl, but equally the Dallas Cowboys will never have the tradition of Real Madrid. Just this year, Manchester City returned to a more traditional crest, looking to emphasise 120 years of history rather than the nouveau riche image of the club today.
Juve, by contrast, were proud to announce that the new logo will applied to “the brand’s physical and digital effects from July 2017”. The brand. Not the club, not the team. The brand. From something identifiably Italian and Torinese, the badge has become something as processed as McDonald’s, as blandly universal as a U2 song. All this despite that fact that football-obsessed children the world over can surely already identify the Bianconeri’s logo. There’s a reason Nike don’t bother changing the Swoosh.
Complaining about the commercialisation of football is akin to spitting in the wind, and the truth is that the naked corporatism might be slightly less nauseating if the damn thing weren’t so UGLY.
