Soccer club Real Madrid removes cross from logo to appease UAE bank

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

If spreading religious intolerance is the goal, a Middle Eastern bank has scored by prompting Real Madrid to alter its world-famous logo so that a small cross does not appear on an officially-licensed credit card.

 

The Spanish soccer giant unveiled the adjusted logo that will adorn a new credit card issued by the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, reported The Algemeiner. The new logo looks exactly like the club's 83-year-old trademark, except for the absence of a tiny Christian cross that normally sits at the top.

 

The logo change was agreed to by the world’s wealthiest sports team, valued at nearly $3.5 billion, in order to avoid offending Muslim sensibilities as the team and the bank enter a three-year “strategic alliance," according to Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez.

 

"I know that the local people experience every match in a special way and that our links with the UAE are constantly growing stronger," Perez said recently. "This agreement will help the club to keep conquering the hearts of followers in the United Arab Emirates.”

 

Noted Spanish soccer website Marca: “from the looks of things, the club is willing to compromise on aspects of its identity in pursuit of these new fans.”

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Seems the strategy might have backfired...

 

[Pepper]

One of the comments states that the next stop for the Moslems will be Madrid itself.