2025 · Special

Brazil's greatest champion spent a century in plain green, and when it finally chose hoops it produced an instant collector's piece: the 2025 Camisa Avanti, exclusive to club members, with horizontal stripes the club itself presented as a first, an old style polo collar, an embossed crest topped by the lone red star of 1951 and a line of the anthem, Quando surge o Alviverde, at the nape. This example dresses like a matchday night: Cimed on the shoulders, Sil on the sleeves, Fictor on the back, the 2025 Libertadores and Brasileirão patches on the arms and, above a 9 that hides the crest inside the number, the name of Vitor Roque, the Tigrinho who arrived from Barcelona in one of the most expensive signings in Brazilian football history and put goals back in the Verdão attack in the year of the near misses.

Here at Hoopster we celebrate the irony with gratitude: all it took was a set of hoops for the green giant to finally earn its place in this collection.