Fiamma Sangiovannese 2005/06 Home Shirt

Long sleeves for the bay's damp winters, green hoops with navy trim, and instead of a crest, the name written out in full: Fiamma Sangiovannese, across the chest beside the Zeus logo, because in neighbourhood clubs identity needs no heraldry. The sponsor is in the business of building the periphery, Matra Costruzioni, and on the back the three dimensional navy 8 carries beneath it the lightning stamp of Zeus Sport, the Torre Annunziata brand born in 1999 at the foot of Vesuvius to dress precisely this: the amateur football of Campania, before growing all the way to Serie A. It is the shirt of a central midfielder from San Giovanni a Teduccio, of the Neapolitan football played ten minutes from the Maradona but a world away, and it carries the best possible slogan sewn into its spirit: Zeus dresses the gods, and in Naples even the neighbourhood leagues are entitled to one.