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Kappa's first Gladbach shirt after years of Lotto is white, as club tradition demands, but the thin black and green hoops fading down the chest gave it a look supporters still ask to have back. Green V-neck, Postbank in yellow across the chest, two gold stars above the crest and ""Fohlenelf"" on the neck, the name the Foals' team has carried since the 1970s. On the sleeves, the Bundesliga's 50th anniversary patch.

On the back it carries the 7 of Patrick Herrmann, the academy winger who never wore another club's shirt, from 2010 until his retirement in 2023. It was the shirt of Lucien Favre's sixth-place finish, with Gladbach third at the halfway mark and qualified for the Europa League, but also of an early cup exit, beaten on penalties by Darmstadt in the very first round. It was also Marc-André ter Stegen's last season before Barcelona.

Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt that opened the Kappa era at Gladbach and brought the club into the archive: thin stripes fading into a white that never fades.