Red Devils’ new away shirt pays tribute to Magritte and surrealism
The Belgian football team’s new away kit pays tribute to artist René Magritte and Belgian surrealism. Unveiled on Friday by the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) and Adidas, the kit will be worn for the first time during a friendly against the USA on 28 March in Atlanta ahead of this summer’s World Cup.
Featuring a graphic print in “the purest surrealist style” as a nod to Magritte’s work, the light blue and pink shirt combines elements of the RBFA crest with football references. The design includes the inscription “This is not a shirt” on the collar, in reference to Magritte’s The Treachery of Images.
This is the Red Devils’ fourth recent away shirt to pay homage to Belgian icons, following designs celebrating cycling, music festival Tomorrowland and cartoonist Hergé and his creation Tintin.
Football magazine FourFourTwo called it “one of the most eye-catching shirts we’ve seen at a tournament”. “Blue and pink but still with the feel of a classic, this might just be the most ambitious of Adidas’s shirts this time around,” it writes. “We expect nothing less from the Belgians, to be honest.”
Belgium open their World Cup campaign against Egypt on 15 June in Seattle, before facing Iran and New Zealand.
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