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Wide hoops with a trimmed V neck and the Trikot Böckmann label on the collar, a German custom kit supplier, with energy giant EnBW on the chest and SC Pöcking arched over the 4 on the back. Plus an extra that came with the piece: a pen signature on the front, still unidentified, joining the archive's other undeciphered autographs.

It is the 2011/12 shirt of Upper Bavaria's district leagues, worn on the shores of Lake Starnberg, in the village of Possenhofen Castle where Empress Sissi was a girl: the most aristocratic Kreisklasse football this archive knows.

Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt of Sissi's village: not every hoop needs trophies when the scenery is already royal.