Tu felix Austria. While others are struggling exhaustively, Austria already in Maria Theresa's time liked to choose short official channels as a means of maintaining power, not excluding personal closeness, acquaintance, marriage. They seem to remain true to themselves to this day when the Chancellor personally sends text messages to officials from the Vienna headquarters, such as: “You can get everything you want anyway”, which are answered with: “I love my Chancellor.” Also the Austrian Football Association seems to love its chancellor. At least that is what ball sports fans have been suspicious of since Austria did not appear in the well-known red and white dress for this year's European Championship for the first game, according to the national colors, but in the surprising color combination black and turquoise. The outcry was appropriate.
Color and meaning
It is true that those who had to get used to the color won against the bright white North Macedonians. But the Couleurs scandal was in the world, and from then on there was speculation between Salzburg and Neusiedler See about color and meaning as otherwise only about the ongoing investigations into the Ibiza affair. In order not to risk another committee of inquiry - you never know - the ÖFB quickly re-dressed its men for the second game against the Dutch - the footballers now appeared all in black. Since they can be expected to wear the home shirt for the third game, Franco Foda's team already deserves first place in terms of trend change. The question is justified why the outfits were recolored in November 2019 of all places,two months after Sebastian Kurz's Turquoise team won the National Council elections. It was he who gave his ÖVP, the blacks, the turquoise in the first place. The ÖFB never tires of emphasizing that one thing has nothing to do with the other, the "Basti version" with the mint green shorts.
Meanwhile, the fact that Twitter says: "This turquoise bites completely with the green of the lawn" is what election researchers mean as a qualified statement about the Vienna coalition. Austrian history itself would offer relief if one only pointed out that mint green, as the color of clarity and creativity, was the fashion trend of the turn of the century, which is why Klimt liked to use this tone for his large-format portraits. In the Middle Ages, of course, the color, together with yellow, was a sign of the outcasts. Anyone who engages in a play of colors, that much is clear, is at risk of interpretation. Because the classic red jersey of the Austrians is the color of power not only common to many European Championship winners such as Denmark, Spain or Portugal. Red is traditionally also the color of the SPÖ.Which brings us back to the beginning by the next Austrian game at the latest.