Sporting Clube Ideal 2019/20 Home Shirt

A match worn shirt with waves inside. In 2019/20 Ideal were playing the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth year of their national era, and this Kelme was there: the 3 on the back belongs to a defender who made the crossing between the islands and the mainland in a season the pandemic would cut short. The chest is a tourism campaign in fabric: Ribeira Grande, Capital do Surf, with a surfboard for a coat of arms and the word Azores up its length, a postcard of São Miguel's north coast where Atlantic waves hold championships.

On the back, the Açores with the hydrangea in the O this collection knows from the Lusitânia shirt; on the crest, the town's bridge and star; on the hem, the municipality's website. Island football playing the nationals with the whole homeland on its back.

Here at Hoopster, of all the archive's Azorean shirts, this is the one that sweated.