Business Messi! FC Barcelona Star In A Sweat Over New T-shirts

It was supposed to be the union of the business of sport in the sky. Nike is the kit for the European champions FC Barcelona and the two share the incomes of millions of brilliant blue and burgundy shirts with the names of living legends such as Leo Messi.

Game shirts are more than a simple presentation of the fans. Specialties 'to pitch shirts "made just for the team, it is also meant to make players' lives on earth, improve performance and help them win titles.

But embarrassed officials have now admitted that Barcelona players are unhappy with the design shirt, complained that it absorbs perspiration to become a heavy skin hanging inconvenience.

The players are considering their shirts half-scale to see how much weight they gained the Spanish daily El Pais.

A shirt that weighed 200 grams at the start of a match can weigh up to two and a half later than 45 minutes.

Dress sources told El Pais said the players during a preseason tour of the United States that shirt, "weighed a ton" and "close to the body like a leech."

They hoped that the problem would not persist in their return to the more forgiving weather in Spain, but on Friday the club has called a meeting with Nike to seek solutions.

Nike said it began testing the shirt. "Team Nike product works to solve problems with FCB jersey home," a spokesman said.

"The whole product is treated with the utmost importance, and the solution is expected when all the appropriate testing has been completed."

Big clubs can sell more shirts 1m a year, and Barcelona had said that the design of this season looked set to break records.

The shirt vaunted track ecological said recycled plastic water bottles from a dozen in one garment, would have used a version of Nike Dri-FIT polyester microfiber is to help carriers stay dry and comfortable .

Nike site has the official jersey of Barcelona, ​​sells for £ 55 is "an artist of game prepared with sweat-wicking fabric for distraction-free competition."

Description does not seem to fit the pitch the players wearing the club shirts.