Hoopster was born from a simple passion: football shirts with green and white horizontal hoops.

But over time, it became about much more than shirts.

It is about memory. About clubs that carry neighbourhoods, cities, countries and unlikely stories. About kits that travel through eras, brands, sponsors, stadiums, victories, relegations, comebacks and Sunday afternoons. About that tiny detail almost no one notices, but that means everything to someone.

My connection to green and white hoops begins, inevitably, with Sporting. That is where this obsession first took shape. First as a supporter, then as a collector, and later as someone who realised there was an entire world hidden inside the same pattern.

Hoops are everywhere. In giant clubs and small teams. In historic shirts and almost forgotten pieces. Wherever someone wears green and white in horizontal lines.

• Scotland
• Portugal
• Brazil
• South Africa
• Germany
• Japan

Hoopster is my living archive of that search.

Every shirt here has a reason to exist. Some arrived because of their beauty. Others because of their rarity. Others because of their connection to Sporting. Others because they tell a story that deserved not to be lost in a drawer, an old listing or a blurred photograph.

I do not collect only fabric, brands or seasons. I collect symbols. I collect clues. I collect the way football can turn a shirt into a place where identity, belonging and emotion all come together.

This project is personal. It was not created to be perfect. It was created to be true.

It is my way of preserving, organising and sharing an obsession that keeps growing shirt by shirt, story by story, hoop by hoop.