BRUSSELS: If Kevin De Bruyne goes again to his previous haircut, he’ll make an ideal Tintin at Euro ’24 this summer time.
Belgium Soccer Affiliation unveiled new house and away kits for its women and men soccer gamers Thursday. The house equipment continues with the normal purple colour worn by the nationwide groups, whose males are nicknamed Crimson Devils and ladies Crimson Flames. The away equipment, although, is a tribute to Belgian cartoonist Hergé and the character that made his fame: Tintin, the intrepid reporter: it has a blue jersey with a white collar, brown shorts, and white socks.
In his action-packed adventures, Tintin typically wears a blue sweater over a white collared shirt paired with brown cutoff pants, white socks and brown sneakers. Tintin additionally has a trademark quiff haircut.
Through the years, Belgian media have typically pointed to the resemblance of Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne to Tintin, significantly when the Manchester Metropolis star sported a shorter haircut.
“As an enormous Tintin fan, I’m delighted that our Crimson Devils will probably be conquering Europe in a jersey primarily based on one in every of Belgium’s best heroes,” stated Piet Vandendriessche, the Belgium FA CEO.
“We’re thrilled to pay homage to a real world icon: Hergé. He not solely captured my coronary heart and my thoughts rising up, however that of so many generations. And that’s precisely what the Crimson Devils, but additionally the Crimson Flames, are attempting to attain. Hopefully, Tintin will give them the inspiration to place up nice performances, beginning this summer time in Germany.”
The brand new house jersey, which contains a burgundy shade of purple, will probably be worn by all Belgian nationwide groups from Saturday onwards, when the Crimson Devils play Eire in a pleasant as a part of their preparations for Euro 2024. The boys’s group will debut the away equipment in a pleasant towards England on March 26.
Tintin first appeared within the Brussels “Le Petit Vingtième” newspaper complement in 1929 and traveled everywhere in the globe. His adventures have offered greater than 270 million comics worldwide and have been translated into 70 languages.
Euro 2024 in Germany is scheduled from June 14-July 14.
The Belgium FA introduced in the course of the press convention on the Hergé Museum outdoors Brussels that Crimson Devils coach Domenico Tedesco prolonged his contract past the 2026 World Cup.
Belgium Soccer Affiliation unveiled new house and away kits for its women and men soccer gamers Thursday. The house equipment continues with the normal purple colour worn by the nationwide groups, whose males are nicknamed Crimson Devils and ladies Crimson Flames. The away equipment, although, is a tribute to Belgian cartoonist Hergé and the character that made his fame: Tintin, the intrepid reporter: it has a blue jersey with a white collar, brown shorts, and white socks.
In his action-packed adventures, Tintin typically wears a blue sweater over a white collared shirt paired with brown cutoff pants, white socks and brown sneakers. Tintin additionally has a trademark quiff haircut.
Through the years, Belgian media have typically pointed to the resemblance of Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne to Tintin, significantly when the Manchester Metropolis star sported a shorter haircut.
“As an enormous Tintin fan, I’m delighted that our Crimson Devils will probably be conquering Europe in a jersey primarily based on one in every of Belgium’s best heroes,” stated Piet Vandendriessche, the Belgium FA CEO.
“We’re thrilled to pay homage to a real world icon: Hergé. He not solely captured my coronary heart and my thoughts rising up, however that of so many generations. And that’s precisely what the Crimson Devils, but additionally the Crimson Flames, are attempting to attain. Hopefully, Tintin will give them the inspiration to place up nice performances, beginning this summer time in Germany.”
The brand new house jersey, which contains a burgundy shade of purple, will probably be worn by all Belgian nationwide groups from Saturday onwards, when the Crimson Devils play Eire in a pleasant as a part of their preparations for Euro 2024. The boys’s group will debut the away equipment in a pleasant towards England on March 26.
Tintin first appeared within the Brussels “Le Petit Vingtième” newspaper complement in 1929 and traveled everywhere in the globe. His adventures have offered greater than 270 million comics worldwide and have been translated into 70 languages.
Euro 2024 in Germany is scheduled from June 14-July 14.
The Belgium FA introduced in the course of the press convention on the Hergé Museum outdoors Brussels that Crimson Devils coach Domenico Tedesco prolonged his contract past the 2026 World Cup.
