2018/19 · Away

Hummel dressed the comeback with the whole of Texas: the state repeated as a pattern inside the hoops, a football playing the flower in the middle of the map, the brand's chevrons running down the long sleeves and the MASL patch on the arm. The crest needs no words: it is Texas itself with a ball inside.

It served the 2018/19 season, the one of the restart: after a year in the dark to reorganise the house, the Sidekicks returned to the MASL with new owners, among them an executive from MLS, and had a modest nine win season at the Allen Event Center. But in Dallas, indoor soccer was never measured only in tables: this is the city where a Brazilian named Tatu taught America to love the arena game by throwing shirts into the crowd, one per goal, until the bench ran out.

Here at Hoopster this piece is almost a manifesto: it comes from the club whose greatest idol spent a career giving shirts away. We simply walk the path in reverse, and keep them.