Macau

Macao, a former Portuguese territory on the southern coast of China, shares more with Lisbon than a language: it shares colours too. Sporting Clube de Macau was founded in the image of Sporting CP, adopting the green-and-white stripes as a mark of identity and a link to a clubbing tradition that crossed oceans. This collection holds one shirt representing that thread of continuity between the old metropolis and the territory, one of the more remote examples of how a familiar pattern travelled and took root elsewhere. Small in number, significant in reach.