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Solid green long sleeves, broken only by fine horizontal white lines, a cream collar with the repeated Joma pattern, and on the chest the sponsor Klimaitalia, the Italian air conditioning chain, with its circular logo. The crest shows the two children sheltered beneath the shell, with the name A.P.D. Real Noci spelled out around it. On the back, a large clean 5, the classic centre back's number, applied with the visible wear of someone who played the 2015/16 Puglia Eccellenza, the tier in which the town had raised the competition's very first regional trophy 24 years earlier. It is a shirt with no adornments, no contrast sleeve fabric, no special edition detail, and it is precisely that simplicity that makes it honest: worn to play, not to sell. Among the collection's many Italian shirts, this is the one that most resembles an ordinary working day on a dusty Murgia pitch.

Here at Hoopster, it is the shirt of an ordinary working day: a number 5 worn down in the Puglian Eccellenza and the honesty of a shirt made to play in, not to sell.