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Adidas teamwear from the miTeam programme, green and white hoops with the three stripes on the sides and TSV's triangular crest on the chest. The sponsor is a phone repair shop, smartphone repair GmbH, with www.handy24.repair printed across the chest in perfectly legible type: advertising by someone playing ten minutes from the customer.

On the back, a squad number 16 and, above it, the statement that needs no footnote: Wir sind Burgdorf, wir sind die TSV. We are Burgdorf, we are the TSV. The 2018/19 season was played on Hannover's district pitches, far from any spotlight and close to everyone.

Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt of the sibling who stayed home: TSV handball fills Bundesliga arenas while the football still plays next door, wearing hoops.