2016-17 Italy Puma Home Shirt - 9/10 - (XL)

Official Puma Italy home shirt from the 2016-17 season, worn as Giampiero Ventura's Azzurri competed in 2018 World Cup qualifying during a period of significant transition and growing anxiety for Italian football that would culminate in the most shocking and traumatic result in the national team's entire history, the failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia representing an unimaginable and catastrophic low point for a nation that had won four World Cups and considered automatic qualification for the tournament's final stages as an absolute and unchallengeable given. This shirt covers the build up to that devastating qualification campaign, a squad still featuring genuine world class talent including Buffon, Bonucci, Chiellini and Insigne that carried the weight of enormous expectation from a nation that had no concept of the heartbreak that was approaching, making this shirt a deeply poignant and historically significant piece of Italian football memorabilia from the final season of false confidence before everything fell apart in the most dramatic and painful fashion imaginable. A large size Italy home shirt from this era in near perfect condition is a compelling and collectible piece of Azzurri history from the last chapter before the most shocking qualification failure in the history of one of the sport's most celebrated and decorated international teams. A one of one original — when it's gone, it's gone forever.

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Product Size: XL

Condition: Excellent