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What happened to Casemiro's shirt during the Madrid derby

Coincidences with Cruijff 's story at the 1974 World Cup? Not at all

What happened to Casemiro's shirt during the Madrid derby   Coincidences with Cruijff 's story at the 1974 World Cup? Not at all

During the derby drawn against Real Madrid, a singular fact popped up: Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro played the first half with a shirt different from the second. In fact, as the website FootyHeadlines pointed out, the three pink stripes of adidas were missing for all the first forty-five minutes of the game, and this has been the case ever since, after the La Liga er, the two teams took off their sweatshirts and showed off the race jerseys. But the difference in Casemiro's shirt (which, by the way, had scored in the first-leg derby ended 2-0) went unnoticed. 

Casemiro was the only Real player without the three pink stripes along his hips only to return to the field after half-time with the galacticos' correct playing jersey. Many immediately thought that it could be some particular case in Real Madrid, between sponsors and personal contracts of the players, but in reality, the solution could be much easier. In fact, adidas may have simply made a mistake in printing the jersey models for that match, and so, among them, a shirt came out without the pink stripes. Normal also that given the tension for the game and the concentration all aimed at the field, no one in the Blancos dressing room noticed the difference of Casemiro's jersey with the other almost twenty uniforms of the players on the pitch and on the bench. 

To some, the words stripes, adidas and differences will immediately make you think about the case of Johan Cruijff of the 1974 World Cup, when the Dutch ace claimed to play with a shirt with two stripes. The world number 14 had won the Ballon d'Or in 1971 with PUMA and at that time it continued to be sponsored by the German brand, while in the national team, the technical partner was adidas. So Cruijff, for the 1974 World Cup, made it possible to play with a shirt that did not create conflict between PUMA and adidas - the two companies were in full historical rivalry for family reasons - and wanted to continue dressing his brand without problems. Therefore, Crujiff had a custom jersey made with two stripes instead of three.