The Real Betis present their new kits for the 2014/15 season
Last night, Real Betis Balompié presented their new kids the 2014/15 season at the Benito Villamarín Stadium, the season that should see the team return to Liga BBVA. The event was hosted by the actor Antonio Garrido with musical accompaniment by Hugo Salazar, the first-team players Adán, José Antonio Caro, Álex Martínez and Rubén Castro posed with the new strips. The shirts have historic references to many other kits used by the club. In this way, the club wants to hold on to their most cherished symbols in order to face up to a season of high demands. The new kits can be purchased at the Macron shop in the Benito Villamarín Stadium, situated near the preferential access of door 6, close to the South Goal corner.
The first strip maintains the classic design of the green-and-white shirt. It regains the elastic used by Real Betis Balompié when they won the first Kings Cup in 1977. Just as it did back then it has a V-neck and 11 stripes on the chest with the central one in green. With this shirt the club pays another tribute to those eternal champions of the Cup.
The second strip is the classic green shirt which pays tribute to one of the historic Real Betis Balompié shirts. It was the second strip that Betis used mainly throughout most of the 1980s, with white sleeves and collar. It has a double B on the top part of the back of the shirt, an icon that is repeated next to the badge of the front. It is a nostalgic nod which reminds us of a shirt that many Betis fans would have kept from their childhood.
The third strip recovers a design first used by Real Betis Balompié after the merger between Sevilla Balompié and Real Betis FC, used at the end of 1914 until the beginning of 1915. With this shirt we commemorate the centenary of the merger between the two clubs and the concession of the royal distinction (Real) ordained by Alphonso 13th, and more specifically to the shirt used at the time. The journalists of the time referred to it as the "gold-and-black shirt".
The goalkeepers shirt pays homage to José Ramón Esnaola, the legendary goalkeeper of the thirteen-striped Club and champion of the King's Cup with the Real Betis Balompié in 1977. The black kid, modelled by the goalkeeper Antonio Adán, reminds us of the classic uniform worn for many years by the emblematic Basque goalkeeper.