1997-98 Italy Nike Away Shirt - 6/10 - (S)

Official Nike Italy away shirt from the 1997-98 season, worn as Cesare Maldini's Azzurri competed in 1998 World Cup qualifying and the tournament itself in France where Italy reached the quarter-finals before a penalty shootout exit to the host nation in one of the most tense and agonising shootouts the competition has ever witnessed, Luigi Di Biagio's missed penalty against the crossbar in Paris bringing down the curtain on a campaign that had promised so much from a squad featuring some of the finest Italian talent of the modern era including Roberto Baggio, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Del Piero and Gianfranco Zola. A classic late 90s Nike design in the striking away colours of the Azzurri from the era when Nike were producing some of the most visually distinctive and collectible international shirts in the history of the sport, garments whose aesthetic boldness and creative ambition have made them among the most passionately sought after pieces in the vintage football shirt market as appreciation for 90s kit design has reached its absolute peak among collectors worldwide. A small size Italy away shirt from this iconic era in wearable condition is an attractive and characterful piece of Azzurri history from one of the most celebrated and visually memorable periods of Italian international football kit design. A one of one original — when it's gone, it's gone forever.

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Product Size: S

Condition: Very Good

Defects - Clear bobbles on the shirt