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Olympique Sidi Bouzid shirt from the 2015/16 season, the first in the club's history in the Tunisian Ligue 1, closed with a surprising 7th place finish among 16 teams. Green and white hoops by One Kampio in the purest North African style: every inch counts, with Délice, Danone, Coca-Cola and Hayet mineral water on the front, Tunisie Telecom above the number 18 and further Arabic advertising across the lower back. A shirt that is both a sporting record and a showcase of the local economy, worn five years after Sidi Bouzid lit the spark of the Arab Spring.

Here at Hoopster this shirt weighs more than its cloth: it comes from Sidi Bouzid, the city where in December 2010 the desperate act of a street vendor lit the Arab Spring, and it tells of the day when, five years later, that same land had top flight football for the first time. Some hoops carry universal history.