This doesn’t happen every week - let’s face it, it doesn’t happen most weeks - but it could be argued that the 377th stage of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) tasked the DF members with replacing a very good crest.
That said, when the Football Federation of Kosovo (Federata e Futbollit e Kosovës) unveiled their current identity two years ago, there was some pushback, so why not? So: we did.
Whatever you think of the incumbent, there’s certainly enough talent in these challenge stages to create some wonderful badges, and the Kosovo national team were the recipients - perhaps without knowing it - of some crackers.
Like the adidas Telstar-themed offering from Tombot. Did you know that the adidas Telstar predates the discovery of the Buckminsterfullerene? Mindblowing.
Anyway, Tombot replaced a pentagon panel with a rendering of the landmass of Kosovo - a nod to the look of the national flag - and that got us wondering if it was somehow possible to make a Telstar-like football with all the hexagon panels replaced with the shape of metropolitan France, l'Hexagone. A qualified maybe.
Utskiboo repeated the trick, choosing the Dardanian sun instead of the landmass, bagging a proverbial bronze medal, and that symbol was the centrepiece for both Monarch of the Roundels Aegon and eventual winner Corinth’s roundels.
The voting tells the full story of the classification but the podium outlined above is certainly a powerful one. Each medalist delivering an improvement of what’s already in place? We couldn’t possibly opine.
