English singer Ed Sheeran is the brand new shirt sponsor for third-division soccer membership Ipswich.
The longtime Ipswich fan, recognized for songs resembling ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Perfect,’ signed a one-year deal Thursday to sponsor the boys’s and girls’s shirts subsequent season.
“The football club is a big part of the local community and this is my way of showing my support,” mentioned the 30-year-old musician, who grew up within the space. “I have always enjoyed my trips to Portman Road and I’m looking forward to going back there as soon as supporters are allowed into stadiums again.”
Ipswich is in the course of the standings in League One with two video games remaining, whereas the ladies’s workforce performs within the fourth division.
An American consortium just lately purchased the membership and has pledged to speculate with the intention to earn promotion to the second division.
“With the new owners from the US coming in, there are sure to be exciting times ahead for Ipswich fans, including myself,” Sheeran mentioned.
The brand new emblem options mathematical symbols and the phrase ‘TOUR.’ His albums use mathematical symbols as names.
England captain Harry Kane is the shirt sponsor of fourth-division membership Leyton Orient, his former membership. The shirts carry messages of due to frontline employees battling the coronavirus pandemic. The Tottenham striker introduced Thursday that Leyton Orient’s residence shirt subsequent season will honour a charity for the nation’s navy veterans.
