{"id":366196,"date":"2025-12-23T07:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366196\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:24:25","slug":"random-the-japanese-football-team-sponsored-by-nintendo-now-has-pikmin-on-its-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366196\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: The Japanese Football Team Sponsored By Nintendo Now Has Pikmin On Its Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pikmin<\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

Nintendo has a long history of sponsoring professional sports teams, and one club it’s continued to support over the years is the Japanese football side, Kyoto Sanga, which currently competes in Japan’s top-flight competition known as the J-League.<\/p>\n

Nintendo owns 16.6% of this club, and ever since it signed on in 1993<\/a>, the video game giant’s traditional 19th-century kanji logo has appeared on the back of the kit, above the player number. Now, in a slight and subtle update to the shirt for the new season, the logo is surrounded by Pikmin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, while the traditional logo might not be quite as recognisable here in the west, you can now at least impress fellow Nintendo fans (and maybe some sports ones) with these colourful Pikmin.<\/p>\n

\"Pikmin<\/a> Image: via @Genki_JPN on X \/ Nintendo
\n\"Kyoto<\/a>\"Kyoto<\/a> Images: via soccerjerseynws on X \/ Nintendo<\/p>\n

Again, while it might not be quite as easy to spot as Nintendo’s ACF Fiorentina kit featuring the company’s red (and iconic) “racetrack” logo<\/a>, any fan of Nintendo should definitely notice. As for the rest of the kit, as you can see in the images above, it features the usual purples, white and red colours \u2013 matching the club’s emblem.<\/p>\n

As Nintendo fans should know, Shigeru Miyamoto has a soft spot for Pikmin, and has previously mentioned how he considers them to be Nintendo’s most “global characters”<\/a>, so it’s no surprise they continue to pop up pretty much everywhere.<\/p>\n

On a slightly related note, Nintendo this week rolled out a new game update for Pikmin 4<\/a> on the Switch to fix multiple bugs.<\/p>\n

Do you have any cool sports shirts featuring video game logos or characters on them? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source gamereactor.eu<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Nintendo has a long history of sponsoring professional sports teams, and one club it’s continued to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,941,10844,198828,345,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-366196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-nintendo","13":"tag-pikmin","14":"tag-random","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}