Not everyone knows that Cagliari's home shirt was white. The team started wearing the doctors' coat adapted to a tunic. This is because the first president was the surgeon Gaetano Fichera.

The rossoblù colors arrived for the first time seven months after the foundation, in January 1921 when the team took part in the Sardinia tournament: the shirt was completely red and the trousers completely blue to also recall the colors of the municipal banner.

We have to think of very different shirts from the ones we know: no quarter shirt, no shield with the four Moors on the chest: simply a red shirt, blue pants, it's a round coat of arms with the wording Cagliari Football Club, CFB.

In 1922 he changed shirt again: shirt with narrow vertical stripes and completely white trousers. A turning point came in 1924 when the shirts became black and blue following the merger of Cagliari with the Italian Sports Society. Cagliari also changed its name to Club Sportivo Cagliari.

To definitively return to the rossoblù colors we had to wait for the end of 1927 and the beginning of 28 when the president Costa Marras decided to return to the classic rossoblù colors with a quarter-final shirt that never changed again.

This is the "Cagliari Calcio Storie" column edited by the sports editorial offices of Unione Sarda, Videolina and Radiolina.

(Unioneonline)

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