AS Velasca with the Le Coq Sportif uniform inspired by Yves Klein’s blue

AS Velasca with the Le Coq Sportif uniform inspired by Yves Klein’s blue

Over the years, Velasca has gone beyond conventional boundaries, uniting two apparently distant worlds such as art and football and has demonstrated with all possible ways and means that football is a form of art especially if it is taken at its roots. In its small way, Velasca has built impossible bridges, closed of circles, woven of unusual bonds. The latest of these ties is with a prestigious French professional team, OGC Nice.

Despite OGC Nice playing in Ligue 1, eight categories behind Velasca on a football scale, and over 350 kilometers apart geographically, there is an element that unites them: they both have the same technical sponsor, Le Coq Sportif. But there is more: art. Nice is a renowned city of art, Nice is Fluxus, an artistic movement often associated with Velasca, but it is also the city of the famous artist Yves Klein and his blue, a source of inspiration for the club’s third shirt. On April 28, for the last official match of the Third Category championship, which also coincides with the day of Yves Klein’s birth, Velasca wore the third official uniform of OGC Nice.

To complete the homage to Klein, the French-Korean artist duo 75070, who recently created Velasca’s kits, was invited to hand-paint with gold-based silk-screen paint the numbers of the amateur footballers who were called up for this latest match. All the shirts have been marked with a golden lenticular stamp that features the eagle, symbol of Nice.