Cádiz (EFE)- Brian Ocampo (Florida, Uruguay) is the image of the special poster dedicated to the famous Cádiz Carnival that illustrates this Sunday’s match against Rayo Vallecano. Cádiz CF also launches a special ‘ad hoc’ shirt.
Original design, with a salmon-colored background, truffled with details of the exterior of the great Falla theater, where the Official Contest of Carnival Groups is held. It includes light blue tints that give a clarity profile, which accompanies the monochromatic color that the shield will have. Cinema for sale. Collectors buy it on the web for 78 euros.
The Carnival of Cádiz runs from February 16 to 26. And against Rayo Vallecano he will leave his traditional yellow shirt one day. The one that went around the world in its day with the Salvadoran Mágico González. The salmon tone takes center stage dressing Chris Ramos or Álvaro Negredo. Under the motto ‘Cádiz, CF, We are Province’, the club pays homage to the great Cadiz party.
In an interview with EFE, the vice president of Cádiz CF, Rafael Contreras, explains that “the intention of the club is to always be linked to its land and its traditions.”
In previous years, the Cádiz club had already made other exclusive kits with different reasons, but “we were missing Carnival,” the leader added.
The club’s marketing and new business team had been working on “something special” to accompany the Cádiz party for some time, so this season “we have not missed that opportunity.”
The acceptance of this initiative has been “total and a total success,” said Contreras, and with it they have sought to achieve an “impact” with the debut held a few days ago at the Gran Teatro Falla to “bring football and Carnival”.
In just two days, the season ticket holders had already exhausted all the stocks in the official store of the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium and in the club’s web commerce, so a second order has been placed with the supplier to be able to meet all the requests from fans who “ they want it and they couldn’t buy it”, anticipated the vice president.
These requests “far exceed” the thousand, which for Rafael Contreras means having exceeded “all expectations.”
The requests received have been “of all kinds”, from cadistas who are scattered around the world to fans or collectors who “have fallen in love” with the jacket.
In this way, the Cádiz Carnival shirt of the yellow outfit “will travel through Europe, South America and even Asia,” Contreras highlighted.
The growth of the Cádiz CF brand is national and international. “Today we reach three quarters of the world speaking in fourteen different languages,” said the vice president of the entity.
“There are schools and projects in all kinds of countries. It is a growth that has no ceiling and that will continue to take leaps and bounds in the coming months,” Contreras ventured.
The Carnival of Cádiz, declared of International Tourist Interest and of Cultural Tourist Interest, is a genuine party whose roots date back to the 17th century. It is a party with a great capacity for criticism, in which groups of citizens in disguise express current events with satire.
After the celebration of the Official Contest of Carnival Groups, which ended at the Gran Teatro Falla last Friday, these days the people of Cádiz take to the streets and dozens of groups display their ingenious repertoires through the urban streets of Cádiz, to the delight of citizens and visitors.
In the 2020 edition, the last one held under normal conditions before the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cádiz Hospitality Federation (Horeca) estimated the number of visitors who attended the festivities at around 400,000, which generated between five and ten million of euros in specialized stores in Cádiz.
Hotel occupancy exceeded ninety percent, not only in Cádiz but in other surrounding towns, such as El Puerto de Santa María, Chiclana de la Frontera, San Fernando and Jerez.
