English soccer powerhouses Manchester Metropolis are marking the upcoming Lunar New Yr with a brand new equipment and attire assortment celebrating the Yr of the Wooden Dragon.
Metropolis and their equipment producer Puma unveiled the gathering on their web site and social media channels on Thursday, January 18. The centerpiece is the jersey, which is white and options tonal “hand-drawn, wood-carved illustrations that artfully intertwine the strength of the Wood Dragon with the architectural splendour of [Etihad Stadium’s] iconic turrets” on the entrance and sleeves. The Metropolis crest, the Puma emblem and the brand of sponsor Etihad Airways seem on the entrance of the shirt in one-color black.
It’s greater than a jersey; it’s an emblem of progress, success, and auspicious beginnings, igniting a ardour for Cityzens in every single place.
On the again collar, a white dragon is wrapped across the Manchester Metropolis crest. The again of the jersey is strong white to permit for title and quantity legibility
Manchester Metropolis’s ladies’s workforce will put on the Yr of the Wooden Dragons kits once they tackle Manchester United of their Continental Cup group stage match on Wednesday, January 24. No point out was made on when the lads’s workforce would possibly don the kits, however they could be used as pre-match tops for video games main as much as the Lunar New Yr.
To associate with the shirt, Metropolis have additionally created a bespoke font for printing names and numbers on the again. It’s impressed with the Wooden Dragon and solely accessible by Metropolis’s workforce shops and on-line store.
Together with the jersey, Metropolis additionally launched a T-shirt, jacket and monitor pants as a part of the Yr of the Wooden Dragon assortment. The shirt and jacket additionally characteristic the Metropolis crest with the dragon wrapped round it.
The Lunar New Yr is arising on Saturday, February 10. The Chinese language zodiac calendar not solely comprises 12 animals, but in addition 5 parts — wooden, hearth, earth, metallic and water — which mix to outline the important thing traits of these born in that 12 months.
In line with the web site of Bendigo Joss House Temple, a Chinese language temple in Australia, these born in 2024 are believed to be fortunate, versatile, eccentric, imaginative, creative, religious and charismatic because of the dragon, in addition to being exceptionally gifted, idealists and planners because of the wooden ingredient.
