Brazil players unhappy about Olympic shirt change
Brazil’s Olympic team are angry over the removal of their traditional badge during the Olympic Football Tournament.
The badge (below) has five stars representing the five World Cups won by Brazil above the letters CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation).
The logo had to be removed because it doesn’t comply with Olympic rules with the quote by officials being:
“Teams are not permitted to wear national soccer federation badges.”
“This is a load of messing around,” midfielder Anderson told Brazilian media in Shenyang.
“It’s a pain to play without the symbol on the shirt because it imposes respect. We’re five times champions of the world and we carry that on our chest.”
“But it’s a political matter and something which the players don’t need to get involved in.”
The team wore shirts with the badge in their 1-0 win over Belgium in their first group game but got asked to change the badge by their own committee the COB not the IOC.
Here is a picture of the shirt worn in the latest game (blue away) against New Zealand. They may have played better without the logo having a comfortable 5-0 win over the All-Whites.
lighten up
The players are right - without the national crest, it’s just a Nkie T-shirt.
It’s not a Brasil shirt without the real Brasil badge, but they are not the only ones that have had their badge removed. All Olympic teams (in football, obviously :P) were ordered to have their federation badges removed and were replaced by their respective countries Olympic patches. Brasil are they only team that have complained(publicly, at least).
they’re not five times olympic champions of the world though. In fact, not even once.
Do they really need that badge in order to win their games? Pretty sad if that’s the case.
At first is sounds ridiculous but it makes sense as this has more to do with countries competing as opposed to federations.(could you imagine the NBA insisting that their logo be used on the men’s basketball team gear? I would think the federations and their technical sponsors would be happy as its a great excuse to launch an “olympic” shirt for the punters.
its’ true! nike et al can bring out five or six kits a year for borusia dortmund but we don’t seem to have had the olympic shirts thrust down our throats with as much vigour - they need to get on that. they need to bring out three new kits for the Olympics, plus another three or four for the qualifying, and then if they get to the final they bring out a special kit, and if they’re winning at half time they change into another new kit…well that’s the way it’s going…
They’re wrong! A football shirt isn’t a football shirt without the the logo! How would you like it if we didn’t have an England badge or Scotland! Without the badge its way to plain!
brn442, That’s not what the crest is. The crest would be like USA hockey putting their logo on the hockey jersey- not the NHL. To use your sport, it’s like USA basketball- the people who run the national team- not the NBA.
It’s not an MLS logo. It’s the logo of the national team itself- the team that it playing. To ban the national team’s logo for the biggest tournament is like (using the NHL again because of the nice clear logos on jerseys) Is like the NHL telling the Stanley cup finalists they can’t put their team logos on their uniforms.
it is not about the looks. the discipline-specific logos are not allowed to appear, only the national olimpic federation crest can. this is the rule for every olympic sport, so also for football. it is right so. i saw italy playing with the logo of the national olympic federation last days.
cptjeff, I used the NBA as an example - No one knows, who runs US basketball, including me. Technically speaking - in world football - it sounds silly but it’s the federations/associations that compete against each other - not countries per se, hence the tolerance of the home nations (England, Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland) and why Fifa does not allow ANY meddling by government in their federations’ affairs. The 3 lions is the crest of the F.A not England the country (that would be the St George’s Cross.) According to them an Olympic team should be a separate entity. Personally, I don’t know why the Olympic committee would risk offending the federations ( who oversee the team setups & whose help they need to secure over-aged players) with such a request, I’m just trying to explain their “logic.”
Makes perfect sense. they aren’t competing with the CBF but with the Brazilian Olympic committee. Therefore, their shirts should have that logo. Every other country has done it, and the other countries that had to change haven’t complained. Or they could have been like a few smart countries, like Australia, that had that all fixed up before the tournament!
And it’s the same for every sport. Eg, the hockey teams won’t have their hockey federation logo on their shirts, the swimmers don’t have the swimming federation logo, etc etc. So it’s not just for one sport