This very latest addition to the collection represents US
Hostert, a recent name to have emerged on the Euro-radar, currently resident in
the second tier of Luxembourg’s domestic soccer pyramid, to whence they
returned after a single-season sojourn in the top flight in 2011-12, having
finished firmly in last place with an admirably ‘heroic’ low total of 8 points,
accrued from two wins & two draws, from 26 matches, accompanied by a goal-difference
of -60 (to which 1 – 9, 1 – 6 & 0 -6 home defeats made a not inconsiderable contribution).
The second & third levels have very been much been
Hostert’s natural habitat, since promotion to the latter from the fourth tier
in 2001-02, before which they had spent their time oscillating between third
& fourth.
The badge itself is a contemporary object, thus lacking any of
the usual desirable vintage aspect, yet it provides the perfect vehicle for the
club’s crest, which is of fine if idiosyncratic design: the green & white
colour combination is obviously an attraction, as is the figure of the
footballer, drawn by a sequence of elegant curves that yet somehow coalesce
into the suggestion of a certain unathletically chubbily stiff clumsiness
(contrast this with the angular dynamism of the graphic player representing
Timok Zaječar on that club’s badge) - as might befit a lower division player,
perhaps - & his head described by the ‘O’ of ‘Hostert’, all rather
irresistible & something to be sported with a particular pride.
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