In sports, bib numbers may not just be a simple number that indicates who an athlete is, they may have a deeper content. Historically, many professionals choose their numbers for personal reasons, because of affinity with other athletes or because they are mythical in their discipline.
In the case of football, the number 10 is the most precious and is usually worn by great players, or for example in basketball there are numbers that have become historic, such as number 23, due to the great stars who have worn them. In each sport the use of bibs is different and not all cover the same range of numbers.
Why is the number 0 used in basketball and not in football?
Within football, each league establishes its own regulations: in Spain, for example, the numbers assigned to a professional squad range from 1 to 25, and from 26 to 50 are for youth players, but in other leagues players can choose any number from 1 to 99, like in the Italian league.
What is very unusual in football is the use of the number 0 or 00, something that is not the same in basketball. The influence of the NBA, a league in which the use of these numbers is allowed, has ended up making FIBA basketball also accept their use, when in the past it was not possible.
This is a legacy of American university basketball, where the use of the 0 has always been the order of the day, and the insistence of many players to keep their number when they reach the best league in the world caused it to become commonplace in the professional basketball.
2023-08-23 21:52:39
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