Santa Clara Sporting Club 2016 Home Shirt

Santa Clara Sporting Club, a Californian club with deep Portuguese roots, wore this Puma home shirt during the 2016 season. The horizontal green and white stripes are the defining feature of the club's visual identity, a deliberate nod to Iberian footballing tradition carried across the Atlantic. Puma's cut feels contemporary while keeping the classic stripe intact, a balance that's harder to pull off than it looks. As a collector's piece, it captures something specific: the intersection of American semi-professional football and the Portuguese diaspora on the West Coast.