Barcelona to drop unicef logo

Barcelona plans to drop the UNICEF logo from the front of its first-team shirts from July and replace it with the name of its new Qatari sponsor, a vice-president of the La Liga club said on Tuesday.

The Spanish champion is one of the few clubs in world soccer not to have a corporate logo on its shirts, instead displaying the name of the United Nations Children's Fund, for which it pays the organization 1.5 million euros ($2.05 million) a year.

However, it last month agreed a record five-year sponsorship deal with Qatar Sports Investment worth 30 million euros a season and will have "Qatar Foundation" emblazoned on its shirt fronts from July 1.