The most iconic five captain's armbands Models and meanings of the first sign of recognition of a leader

The date of appearance of the first captain's armband isn't known, although the captain's role is always present in football. In time, the role of the leader of a club has been remarked more and more, identifying it clearly as the responsible, a motivator, a guide into the pitch. We can talk forever about captain's armbands, talking about how they become a vehicle of specific messages or about some facts related - for example, do you know that the Arsenal's captain is the one who decides for everyone if the sleeves of the jerseys for the matches will be long or short? - or even about its crucial importance for who worn them and how they become protagonists of sporty stories that occupy for weeks the front pages of newspapers, as we saw with the recent Icardi case, who finished on the outs with Inter after being deprived of his dear armband and of all it meant for him. However, nowadays the discussion theme that more involve them is their process of rarefaction: after the Premier League and the UEFA and FIFA competitions, Serie A has started this season with a single captain's armband for all the teams - exception made for extraordinary cases like the one of Fiorentina which obtained a special exemption for wearing a personalized band in honor of Davide Astori - and for the future, the way seems the same for the other leagues. Until today we have seen captain's armbands of all types, from the more sober models to the more weirdoes and those ones subject of collaborations, all with the aim of representing a club around the arm of its captain but, as we said, even of idealizing an idea, a sentiment or a memory. Today we see five armbands among the most unforgettable.