Today is a crucial day in the history of Sardinia, for 230 years. On the occasion of “Sardinian People’s Day” – established by the Regional Council of Sardinia with Regional Law 14 September 1993, n. 44 – Cagliari Calcio remembers the events of the “Sarda Rivolutzione” (in Italian: “Sardinian revolutionary movements” or “Sardinian Vespers”) by presenting the Special Edition Match Shirt created by the technical sponsor EYE Sport, which will be worn in the next match to be played in Sardinia, May 5th against Lecce. An initiative in collaboration with the technical sponsor EYE Sport and which is also part of the partnership withTourism Department of the Sardinia Regionto honor the history of Sardinia and its people by celebrating their cultural identity and unity in that precise historical moment.
The shirt, characterized bypixel effect (with chromaticity that recall Giuseppe Sciuti’s work “Entrance of Giovanni Maria Angioy in Sassari”) also proposed on the side part of the shorts and on the back of the socks, it has in the three texts in Sardinian language which appear in different points of the playing uniform its distinctive elements: the name of the party, “Sa Die de sa Sardigna”, visible horizontally on the back of the shirt and vertically on the back of the socks; the date “Su 28 de Abrili” inside the crew neck; the phrase “Nara Cixiri” internally on the lower part of the shirt, to reiterate and remember the phonetic formula with which, according to legend, it was easy to identify “the foreigner”. The Piedmontese were blocked by seeing the request “Nara cixiri” (translation: pronounce the word “chickpea”) formulated, who could not pronounce this word well (“cixiri” in Sardinian means “chickpea”) was not “casteddaio” and was therefore destined to be boarded and sent away.
SOURCE: Cagliari Calcio Press Office
