Barcelona May 19 (IANS) Barcelona on Saturday presented its new kit for the 2018-19 season featuring a jersey with 10 vertical stripes representing Barcelona s 10 districts.
Barça is to debut the new kit on Sunday while hosting Real Sociedad the last match of the current La Liga season reports Efe.
The 2018/19 jersey returns to the vertical blue and garnet-colored stripes across the entire jersey replacing the current season s design of narrow lines concentrated in the center.
The Catalan club s president Josep Maria Bartomeu and Barcelona s mayor Ada Colau attended the presentation ceremony.
Bartomeu pointed out that Barça owes a lot to the city and the new kit is intended to honorthat special bond while Colau said it was a matter of pride that Barcelona wants to further strengthen its links to the city with their new jersey.

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