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Distinctive jerseys. Dutch membership pays tribute to Poles

The newly minted Eredivisie crew offered their kits for the upcoming season. The Dutch membership determined to honor on T-shirts the Polish Armored Division commanded by Normal Stanisław Maczek, which liberated Breda from the Nazi occupiers in 1944.

On October 29 this yr, it is going to be precisely 80 years because the liberation of Breda by Polish troopers. NAC celebrated the upcoming anniversary in a singular manner.

The T-shirts characteristic, amongst others, the names and pictures of troopers, the badge of the first Armored Division and graphics impressed by the Polish emblem. We will additionally see inscriptions in Polish on the outfits: “Polska x Breda” and “NAC Breda Thanks”.

Breda was liberated through the assault in direction of the mouth of the Meuse. In the course of the preventing for town, 151 troopers of the first Armoured Division died and several other hundred had been wounded. The Poles had been enthusiastically welcomed by the Dutch. Residents hung “Thanks!” indicators of their home windows and store home windows, and town authorities honoured Normal Maczek’s troopers with medals and honorary citizenship of Breda. The final himself, on the request of over 40 thousand residents, obtained honorary citizenship of the Netherlands after the struggle. After his loss of life in 1994, he was buried within the native cemetery subsequent to his troopers.

Final season, NAC Breda took eighth place within the Eerste Divisie, because of which it superior to the Eredivisie play-offs. There, in two matches, she defeated higher-ranked rivals: Roda Kerkrade (3:1, 5:0), FC Emmen (1:1, 3:0) and Excelsior Rotterdam (6:2, 1:4) and thus reached the very best degree competitors within the Netherlands.

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