Stars That Do Not Signify Particular Titles
American club Philadelphia Union has 13 stars that represent the 13 original colonies of the United States.
The badge of Peñarol of Uruguay has 11 stars for the 11 players, and a twelfth is to be added for the supporters, the "12th Man".
Manchester City's badge has three stars to give it a "more continental feel". The 3 stars do not represent titles or trophies. Sivasspor of Turkey also has three stars on their badge. They do not represent any championships either.
The badge of Panathinaikos Athens of Greece, has 3 stars, one gold representing the team's presence at the 1971 European Cup Final, and 2 white stars representing the team's participation at the 1985 European Cup semi-finals & the 1996 UEFA Champions League semi-finals respectively. Because none of these stars represent titles or trophies, opposition fans in Greece mock this.
The United States Soccer Federation has 3 stars inside its badge, which is worn by all U.S. national teams, including the senior men's and women's teams. These stars are taken to recall the flag of the United States, and are not intended to symbolize championship titles.
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Famous quotes containing the words stars that, stars, signify and/or titles:
“If the stars that move together as one, disband,
Flying like insects of fire in a cavern of night,
Pipperoo, pippera, pipperum . . . The rest is rot.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The nature of women’s oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children—we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)