{"id":55818,"date":"2014-01-31T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/?p=55818"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:20:50","slug":"fc-barcelona-add-chinese-new-year-symbol-to-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/31\/fc-barcelona-add-chinese-new-year-symbol-to-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona Add Chinese New Year Symbol to Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona have modified their 2013\/14 Nike home kit and released a video featuring players Neymar, Piqu\u00e9, Pedro and Sergi Roberto in celebration of the Chinese New Year which is on January 31st.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7404\/12245285335_1fb1f8de2c_k.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"Lionel Messi in the FC Barcelona 2014 Chinese New Year Home Soccer Jersey, Camiseta\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7404\/12245285335_27abd13b95.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Barca website: This Saturday, for the league match between Bar\u00e7a and Valencia, the first team players will be wearing the letter symbolising the horse in Chinese tradition. That is the animal of the New Chinese Year, which begins on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>This single-edition shirt will also be worn on a day when the 16.00 kick-off is especially convenient for Asian viewers. In fact, Beijing TV will be showing the game live at 23.00 for the whole of China. Fox Asia will be broadcasting the game in India and Indonesia, as will RS Sports in Thailand and WOWOW in Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P4I_OI3GmyQ?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The symbol of the horse is FC Barcelona\u2019s way of commemorating this important occasion in China. The first team players have also appeared in a special video in which they send their Chinese fans their best wishes for the New Year. Neymar, Piqu\u00e9, Pedro and Sergi Roberto appear in the short film addressing supporters in Mandarin, for which they all specially learned how to say certain phrases in the language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3819\/12245462543_0743b3cdb0_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"Lionel Messi in the FC Barcelona 2014 Chinese New Year Home Soccer Jersey, Camiseta\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3819\/12245462543_0743b3cdb0.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, FC Barcelona also celebrated the coming of the Chinese New Year in the build-up to the game with Getafe on February 10. Both captains walked onto the pitch with children wearing commemorative T-shirts, and the team posed for a photo with a special message for their Chinese fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/category\/201314-kits-jerseys\/\">See our Kits and Jerseys section for more of the latest football shirt releases<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJuZ3T0T9Ho?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/track.webgains.com\/click.html?wgcampaignid=127099&amp;wgprogramid=6373&amp;wgtarget=http:\/\/www.nike.com\/gb\/en_gb\/c\/fcbarcelona?cp=EUNS_AFF_FCB_WG_GB_127099\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7378\/12289036404_7933828c2c_z.jpg\" width=\"622\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"http:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/30\/barcelona-sc-2014-marathon-home-and-away-jerseys\/\" data-num-posts=\"20\" data-width=\"500\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona have modified their 2013\/14 Nike home kit and released a video featuring players Neymar, Piqu\u00e9, Pedro and Sergi Roberto in celebration of the Chinese New Year which is on January 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1934,2431,27,37],"tags":[2763,2432,583,2736,2742],"class_list":["post-55818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201213-kits-jerseys","category-2014-15-kits-jerseys","category-nike","category-spanish-la-liga","tag-201314-kits-jerseys","tag-201415-kits-jerseys","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-nike","tag-spanish-la-liga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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