Borussia Mönchengladbach 2013/14 Home Shirt

Kappa debuted in Mönchengladbach with a beautiful idea: dissolving stripes, green and black fading down the chest as if the shirt were being drawn in real time. The 2013/14 season consolidated Lucien Favre's Gladbach, sixth place and a return to the Europa League, with Max Kruse newly arrived and the team playing the patient football that became a reference. But this shirt above all holds two farewells with grand destinations. It was Marc-André ter Stegen's last season in the Foals' goal before leaving for Barcelona, the homegrown kid exiting through the door only the best get to use. And it was in these colours that Christoph Kramer, on loan from Leverkusen, produced the season that took him to the World Cup in Brazil, where months later he would play the final with the whole world watching, so concussed he asked the referee whether it really was the final. A world champion while a Gladbach player: things that only happen to the right shirts. Faded stripes, memories that never fade.

Here at Hoopster we love shirts that say goodbye without knowing it: in these dissolving hoops ter Stegen played his last season before Barcelona. Some departures stay drawn into the cloth itself.