France’s prime nationwide soccer league, Ligue 1 Uber Eats, is attempting out a brand new solution to acknowledge the league’s prime scorer each matchday.
Beginning this weekend, the league will place a particular gold badge on the shirt of the participant with probably the most objectives throughout every weekend’s matches. The badge is a gold hexagon with a white “S” and a gold “1” emblem inside, and is positioned on the again of the shirt, above the participant’s identify.
The primary recipient of the badge was Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappé, who obtained a particular shirt with the badge forward of PSG’s match towards AS Monaco on Friday, November 24. Mbappé scored 13 objectives within the build-up to the match.
The S1 is greater than only a badge, it’s a actual design object created by Tyrsa, an artist who has made a reputation for himself a number of instances, in collaboration with prestigious manufacturers resembling Dior, Louis Vuitton and Moncler, and with artists resembling FKA Twigs and Infantile Gambino .
The S1 badge symbolizes the assembly of the letter ‘S’ for ‘Scoreor’ and the quantity ‘1’, joined collectively on a observe illustrating the race between the scorers. On nearer inspection you too can see the 34 traces that type the background, just like the 34 rounds of the Ligue 1 Uber Eats marketing campaign. All in gold, to represent excellence and the very best place within the rankings.
— Ligue1.com
The badge shall be positioned on the chief’s jersey of the scorecard prior to every Ligue 1 matchday. On the finish of the season, the highest scorer receives a trophy for being the highest scorer of the competitors.
It’s totally doable that the badge will stay with Mbappé for the rest of the Ligue 1 season. Heading into Friday’s match towards Monaco, he led the goalscoring race by a large margin, with Montpellier HSC’s Akor Adams a distant second with seven objectives.
