Oh, the problems of modern football. Red Bull Salzburg played a Champions League qualifier against Latvian champs FK Liepaja and defender Andreas Ulmer was caught wearing a Red Bull Leipzig shirt. If you’re wondering how this could go unnoticed before it ended up on Ulmer’s back, let’s compare the two shirts.
RB Salzburg:
And RB Leipzig:
Clearly corporate uniformity takes precedent over individual identity with the Red Bull family of European clubs.
The mistake is being attributed to kitmaker Nike, who apparently slipped a shirt or two in the wrong shipment, but it’s hard to blame them given the similarity.
How can a corporation justify to the stockholders/board two graphics design expenditures for a football kit? I mean they can’t! It’s impossible!
How about the one from New York?