Sporting Clube de Portugal 2006/07 Home Shirt

Sporting's first Puma shirt of the modern era belongs to one of the cruellest seasons in the club's history. With Paulo Bento on the bench and a team full of Academy kids, from Moutinho to Nani, Veloso and Rui Patrício, Sporting fought for the title to the very end and lost it by a single point to FC Porto, in a season forever tied to the infamous Ronny handball game against Paços de Ferreira. Consolation came at the Jamor, with the Taça de Portugal won 1-0 against Belenenses. This shirt carries the name of Marco Caneira, an Academy raised centre back who returned on loan from Valencia and chose number 12, a number that became part of his bond with the fans. That season he scored one of the club's goals of the year, the only one in the Champions League win over Inter Milan, the very club that had once owned his registration. With bwin LIGA patches on the number, this is the domestic league version, from a season when the Lions came within one point of everything.

Here at Hoopster this shirt keeps one of sportinguismo's worst healed wounds: the title lost by a point in the year of Ronny's handball. Caneira's 12 wears the proof that the lion's memory has no statute of limitations.