Crest and Colours
When GVAV was reformed as FC Groningen in 1971 a competition was subscriped to come up with a new crest. The winning design was created by Reint Rozema. It showed a rather abstract character G, referring to Groningen. The "simple but strong shape of the crest" (as it was described by Rozema) had to symbolize the nature of the people of Groningen. The crest's form was inspired by the truncated icosahedron pattern of a football. In 1993 the mythical flying horse Pegasus was added to the crest. The supporters resisted against this alternation and the crest was restored to its original form in 1996.
FC Groningen's official colours are the city's green and white. However the crest was green and white from the beginning, the team's first ever home kit was blue. After the club's first season, the purple kit was exchanged for a green and white one. FC Groningen have played in these colours ever since. The design of the shirt has differed until 1991, when a kit with two vertical stripes was adopted as FC Groningen's standard. Since 2006 the colour purple has been revived as the team's third colour and is used in the away kits.
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Famous quotes containing the words crest and/or colours:
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)