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Nobody designed this shirt: everybody did. G Sport took the club's children's doodles and printed them exactly as they came out, crooked goals, stands full of stick figures, crests copied by hand, hearts with the badge inside, fantasy tactics boards and, somewhere in the middle, the sentence that sums it all up: football is more than a game. At the neck, the work's title, Geração em Geração, from generation to generation, and above everything the green stripe scribbled in crayon, like a signature. The TNCD lawyers on the chest and the municipal support on the sleeves pay for the ink.

It is not a one off in this house: two years earlier, for the 40th anniversary, Varziela had printed its supporters' faces on the away shirt. Few clubs anywhere turn their shirts into a family album this naturally.

Here at Hoopster this piece matters for what no designer can imitate: green hoops drawn by hands still learning to write, and already certain of exactly whom they belong to.