The Blues prevent the Red Devils from playing with their Tintin jersey

EURO 2024 – The Red Devils have had their colour stolen. The players of the Belgian football team will not be able to wear their new jersey in homage to Hergé during the match against France for the round of 16 of Euro 2024, this Monday, July 1 at 6 p.m. in Düsseldorf.

Worn only once since the start of the competition against Ukraine, this new reserve jersey is blue with a white collar, a nod to Tintin’s outfit. But since the French team is the host of this match, according to UEFA rules, Didier Deschamps’ players had the advantage of being able to choose their outfit. And they logically wanted to stay in blue, reports The Team.

Domenico Tedesco’s players will therefore have to (once again) wear their first dark red jersey. A slight disappointment for Roger Vangénéberg, one of the managing directors of the Hergé museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, who initiated this tribute. It’s just a shame that the Devils are playing in red on Monday,” he tells the sports daily. Even if he specifies that“Hergé was not a big fan of sport in general.”

Paying tribute to Belgian culture

Tintin, on the other hand, practiced “many disciplines in his adventures”underlines the official website dedicated to Tintin, which lists: “Equestrian sport in “Tintin in America”, Swedish gymnastics in “The Broken Ear”, swimming rescue in “The Blue Lotus”, yoga in “Tintin and the Picaros”…” Above all, the young reporter was depicted as a sportsman in numerous issues of Journal Tintin, in particular as a cyclist in July 1953 during the Tour de France.

The Royal Belgian Football Association has regularly paid tribute to “ to something or someone that has roots in Belgium, and is recognized and celebrated throughout the world “. Before him, it was Belgian cycling which was celebrated on the jerseys of the Belgian team for Euro 2016. More recently, the fireworks at Tomorrowland, a prestigious music festival organized in Boom, had inspired the team’s away jersey for the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

Done for the first time in March 2023 during a match against Ireland, the sky blue and white jersey will be worn throughout the year by the Red Devils… provided that their opponents dressed in blue allow them to wear it. possibility.

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