Barcelona to put on Drake emblem for El Clasico vs. Actual Madrid

Barcelona will put on the emblem of Canadian rapper and singer Drake on the entrance of their jersey in Sunday’s LaLiga El Clasico at Actual Madrid, to have a good time the very fact he’s the primary artist to get to 50 billion Spotify streams.

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The membership welcomed Spotify onboard as their precept sponsor in March and have been selling numerous artists since then through promoting boards inside Camp Nou, although Drake is the primary to make it onto the precise shirt itself.

As soon as famed for his or her ideological aversion to shirt sponsors, Barca will now put on Drake’s emblem on the entrance of their jerseys for a restricted time — which whereas celebrating the hip-hop star’s streaming achievements, additionally offers the Catalan giants an odd whiff of the Sheffield Wednesday’s outdated crest.

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Drake’s owl image will seem on the most important stage in Spanish soccer with Barcelona confirming that the restricted version shirt might be worn for the primary time in opposition to Actual Madrid on the Bernabeu in El Clasico on Sunday.

“This does not really feel actual however it’s,” the 35-year-old wrote on Instagram.

Drake has publicly sported Barca colors earlier than when a photograph of him carrying the shirt was shared on his social media accounts final summer time. Certainly, the picture precipitated Dutch winger Memphis Depay — himself a budding hip-hop artiste — to undergo a minor meltdown within the sheer pleasure of all of it.

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After all, this is not the primary time {that a} headline musician has collaborated with a soccer membership with many pop, rock and hip-hop stars discovering their marques on shirts prior to now.

The Rolling Stones have their very own line of particular Paris Saint-Germain merchandise which incorporates soccer shirts in addition to weird choices similar to sneakers, moped helmets and skateboards.

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Bob Marley has graced a number of kits with each Ajax Amsterdam and Northern Irish facet Bohemians releasing tributes to the Jamaican reggae legend prior to now few years.

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Seattle Sounders FC created a fittingly psychedelic salute to guitar hero Jimi Hendrix, one of many metropolis’s most well-known sons, with their hazy purple 2021 away equipment.

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Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris is understood to be an enormous fan of West Ham United and frequently performs stay reveals with a signature guitar bearing the crest of his beloved membership.

He has additionally collaborated with the Hammers to supply a few particular restricted version West Ham x Iron Maiden duplicate shirts and coaching strains.

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Ipswich City have buddied up with native superstar fan Ed Sheeran numerous occasions, together with a few consecutive residence kits (which all characteristic the singer-songwriter’s trademark mathematical symbols) and this season’s extremely widespread “blackout” third strip.