{"id":448272,"date":"2026-03-20T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/20\/belgio-surrealista-ai-mondiali-di-calcio-la-seconda-maglia-un-omaggio-a-magritte\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:05:12","slug":"belgiums-surrealist-world-cup-kit-the-away-kit-pays-tribute-to-magritte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/20\/belgiums-surrealist-world-cup-kit-the-away-kit-pays-tribute-to-magritte\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium\u2019s “surrealist” World Cup kit: the away kit pays tribute to Magritte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 “Ceci n’est pas un maillot.” This is not a match shirt. For this summer\u2019s World Cup, Belgium has produced a brand-new and very special kit: a tribute to Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/strong>, the Belgian painter and one of the leading figures of Surrealism. With a black collar and cuffs framing a colour combination of sky blue and pink, the new shirt features elements of the Royal Belgian Football Association<\/a> (RBFA) crest and, through the hemispheres woven into the fabric, references to the famous apple used by Magritte in his famous painting “The son of man<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

“In keeping with the surrealist theme, its striking graphic print will stimulate the imagination” of the observer, claims the RBFA as it unveils the new kit to the public, continuing the well-established tradition of drawing inspiration for the national team\u2019s away kits from elements typical of Belgian identity. 
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At the 2016 European Championships, a jersey was unveiled that drew inspiration from cycling teams, as a tribute to Eddy Merckx<\/b><\/a> and the country\u2019s cycling heritage. The kit dedicated to Magritte will be worn <\/b>by the players for the first time during the friendly match against the United States on 28 March<\/strong> in Atlanta,<\/span> ahead of this summer\u2019s World Cup, where Belgium will face Egypt, Iran, and New Zealand in the group stage.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Belgian national team has unveiled the away kit it will wear at the World Cup, which kicks off in June. Inspired by the world-renowned artist, the team will wear it for the first time in a friendly match on 28 March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":448246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25713,25717],"tags":[28039,25801,33474,26053,33475,30219],"class_list":["post-448272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-sports","tag-arte-en","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-magritte","tag-calcium-en","tag-surrealismo","tag-coppa-del-mondo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448273,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448272\/revisions\/448273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}