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Of this team we know exactly what the shirt chose to tell, not one line more. It is called UVA, or at least that is what the back shouts. It plays, or played, somewhere called Santurce, which could be the port town of Santurtzi on the edge of Bilbao or a dirt pitch only its own players remember. The sponsor, one Sadab International of Ecuador, with a golden globe and rising buildings, suggests emigration: the weekend leagues of the Ecuadorian communities on the Nervión's left bank are full of teams like this, founded between work shifts and dressed from a catalogue.

And where century old clubs place lions, crowns and founding dates, UVA placed a cannabis leaf. No crest on earth states its intentions faster: eleven friends, one ball, zero solemnity.

Here at Hoopster, this is the archive's pet mystery: if anyone ever recognises the UVA of Santurce, this page is waiting.