2009-10 Nantes Kappa Away Shirt DARCHVILLE #9 - 8/10 - (L)

Official Kappa Nantes away shirt from the 2009-10 season, printed with the name and number of Jean-Claude Darcheville, the French-Guianese striker whose most celebrated chapter had come just two seasons earlier at Rangers where he scored the crucial away goal against Fiorentina in the UEFA Cup semi-final that helped send Walter Smith's side to the Manchester final, before returning to French football and joining the Canaries for a spell that brought him back to the country of his formation. This shirt covers a difficult period for one of French football's most historically significant and romantically cherished clubs, Nantes competing in Ligue 2 having suffered the indignity of relegation from the top flight, a painful chapter for a proud institution whose free-flowing passing philosophy and legendary academy had produced some of the finest French talent of the modern era including Didier Deschamps, Marcel Desailly and Claude Makélélé. A named and numbered Darcheville Nantes away shirt is a wonderfully unusual and deeply characterful piece of French football memorabilia bearing the name of a player whose greatest moment of glory had come in Glasgow rather than his homeland, making this an intriguing and collectible find for any serious student of the game's more unexpected stories. A one of one original — when it's gone, it's gone forever.

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Product Size: L

Condition: Great