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A West German cotton Hummel: the label still reads BRD, which places it before 1990, and the design is the brand’s 1980s look, green with thin double white pinstripes, block sleeves, white V-neck and the arrowed Hummel logo on the chest. Below it, a small 7 and the sponsor in blue letters: Ali’s Sportladen & Modeecke, the village sports and fashion shop, which probably dressed the whole team. On the back, the full name, SC Spiegelau e.V., above a large 7.

It is a leisure team shirt from a ski club, not a football club, which makes it rare by nature: nobody keeps these, they are worn at the summer tournament and end up at the bottom of a drawer. This one survived four decades.

Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt of those who swapped skis for a ball when the snow melted.