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A working Puma with a crest that says it all: GREENBUSH Soccer Club, a ball at the centre, two stars and the founding 1972. The 9 on the back is big and nameless, in the style of clubs where shirts pass from squad to squad, and the worn logos on the shoulders tell of the serious Saturday mornings this piece has lived.

It served around 2019 at a club that is half a century of volunteers, minivans and kids at Phillips Road. The American game that today fills MLS stadiums and hosts World Cups begins exactly here, at clubs that measure success in children formed rather than trophies won, and where a shirt like this works until it can work no more.

Here at Hoopster it pairs with Portland's T2: the same America seen from the bottom and the top of the pyramid, with the same green hoops tying the two ends together.