1996-97 Italy Nike Home Shirt - 9/10 - (L)

Official Nike Italy home shirt from the 1996-97 season, worn as Cesare Maldini's Azzurri began their qualification campaign for the 1998 World Cup in France following the painful group stage exit at Euro 96 in England, a squad of extraordinary individual talent including Roberto Baggio, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Del Piero and Gianfranco Zola that was rebuilding its collective identity and purpose under a new manager in pursuit of the World Cup redemption that would ultimately arrive in France where Italy reached the quarter-finals before another agonising penalty shootout exit against the host nation. A beautifully crafted mid-90s Nike design in the iconic azzurro of the Italian national team, from the early years of the partnership between Italy and Nike that would produce some of the most celebrated and collectible international shirts of the modern era, garments whose design quality, material excellence and historical significance have made them among the most passionately sought after pieces of vintage football memorabilia in the entire collector's market. A large size Italy home shirt from this era in near perfect condition is a wonderfully attractive and increasingly scarce piece of Azzurri history from a period of rebuilding and renewed determination for one of the sport's most historically significant and globally admired international teams. A one of one original — when it's gone, it's gone forever.

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Product Size: L

Condition: Excellent