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Joma hoops with a V neck and a chest with no sponsor at all, only the essentials: the circular crest with Elorrieta's Casa Grande drawn over a football pitch, the building and the rectangle that founded it all in 1983, the Basque name running around them. The sleeves complete the statement of identity: the ikurriña on one side, the red initial E on the other, and not a word of Spanish anywhere on the shirt.

It is the 2024/25 piece of a Bilbao neighbourhood club that raises kids for Athletic's network, the collection's second Basque chapter after Eibar: on one side the town that reached La Liga against all logic, on the other the neighbourhood that once bartered with hens for the right to a pitch.

Here at Hoopster, the same hoops serve both stories, and that is what they are for.