Scudetto
Thescudetto(Italian:[skuˈdetto];Italianfor 'little shield') is a decoration having the colors of theflag of Italywhich is sewn onto the jersey of the Italian sports clubs that won the highest level championship of their respective sport in the previous season. Thescudettowas created in the 1920s to honour thewinnerof the national association football league (in 1929 rebranded asSerie A) and the first team to wear it wasGenoain 1924. Later, it was adopted by the teams of other sports.
The wordscudettoisalso used to indicatethe Serie A trophy; "winning thescudetto"is a synonym of" winning Serie A ".
Origin[edit]
Sources generally agree that the inventor of thescudettowas the Italian poet and playwrightGabriele D'Annunzio.In his youth, D'Annunzio was a keen follower of football and in 1887 he bought a leather ball inLondonfrom the same manufacturer that supplied theFootball League[1]and would play football with his friends on the beach of his nativePescara.[1]
In 1920, the former Austro-Hungarian city ofFiume(now theCroatianRijeka) was annexed to Italy, and D'Annunzio proposed that the local football team acknowledge supporting the Italian sovereignty over the city with atricoloredshield ofgreen,whiteandredon their jerseys.[1][2]
In 1924, theItalian Football Federationapproved the decision to honour the defending champions allowing them to wear thescudettoon their jerseys. The Italianrugby union championshipwhich started in 1928 became the second league to adopt thescudettoon a team's jersey to indicate a title-holding team. Since then, thescudettohas become the symbol of the defending champions of every sports league in Italy.
Other countries including Portugal and Turkey also have their reigning champions wear a national symbol on their chests.
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References[edit]
- ^abcPierangelo, Paolo (8 April 2013)."150 anni di D'Annunzio, l'ideatore dello scudetto sulle maglie da gioco"[D'Annunzio's 150th Birthday: He Was the Inventor of thescudettoon Sports Jerseys].la Gazzetta dello Sport(in Italian).Milan.Retrieved9 December2016.
- ^Graziosi, Roberto (25 April 2016)."Chi ha inventato lo Scudetto?"[Who Invented thescudetto?].Focus.Retrieved9 December2016.
