The orange color of the Dutch team and its fans dates back to six centuries ago, specifically during the 16th century when the Netherlands led a revolt against Spanish rule in search of independence. After independence, the Dutch rebel group decided to adopt the color orange in the flag in honor of Prince William who was appointed governor of the Netherlands in Japan's national teams wear the color blue, even though the Japanese flag has no blue in it.
In fact, this color turned into an amulet of luck in Japan after the Japanese football team first wore it in during the Olympic Games, and defeated the Swedish team Ever since, the Japanese sports teams started wearing blue.
Everyone, especially football fans living in the Asian continent know that the Australian sports teams, the newcomers to the yellow continent, wear the yellow color despite the fact it is not present on the Australian flag.
The yellow color represents the Acacia pycnantha, which is Australia's national flower found in the continent which is considered a national symbol during the independence process and the unification before There is a huge controversy over why the Venezuelan teams wear dark red.
One explanation is that when blending the three colors that make up the Venezuelan flag, blue, yellow and red its product is dark red but this interpretation is not really true because when mixing these these colors it throws up purple. There are those who say that the dark red color was the color of the Venezuelan army, and the third explanation, which is the most logical, says that the Venezuelan federation wanted to distinguish the colors of the Venezuelan team from that of Colombia and Ecuador.
This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. I'm not sure what the correct answer was but the choices were: - A The colours don't clash with any other domestic Italian football team probably not true as several have blue in their strips. B It's the colour of the Italian Royal Family. C It's the colour of the sea. Rufus, Bristol UK Italian sports teams play in blue shirts rather than the colours of their national flag in a custom dating back to the country's pre-republican days.
Blue was the official colour of the Royal House of Savoy and this tribute to the Italian monarchy survives today. Max Wurr, Stanmore UK Italy are not alone in playing in colours which do not reflect the national flag: Germany white and black and the Netherland orange are the most prominent. Eventually it was decided that Italy should play in blue and the new shirts were sported for the first time in against Hungary after a couple of games in white. Blue was a natural choice, stemming from the Savoy blue or Savoy azure used by the House of Savoy from the 11th century.
From reasonably humble beginnings, the House of Savoy grew to become absolute rulers of Sicily and later, through the Savoy-Carignano branch of the family, absolute rulers of Italy until the declaration of the Italian Republic in Also called azzurro Savoia in Italian , the colour game its name to the national side shortly after Italy adopted its blue shirts.
Like many nations, Italy have occasionally veered away from their traditional strip. A short-lived experiment with black was ordered by Benito Mussolini and Italy played France in a friendly in and again at the in the all-black strip preferred by the Italian dictator although blue was worn at the Olympic Games in Hitler's Germany.
Italy's standard away strip is white but they have occasionally worn a green shirt , first used during a friendly against Argentina. The story goes that as Italy's senior side wears blue, those going through the junior international sides would be required to wear the green "apprentice" shirts before being ceremoniously awarded their azzurro Savoia.
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