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| The Liverpool Shirts Museum 2006-2007 Home Champions League Player Shirt |
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| Liverpool was once sponsored by Adidas from 1985 to 1996. Starting from season 2006-2007 onwards, Liverpool has signed a sponsorship contract with Adidas again, and this is the first home player shirt under the "New Adidas" era. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Featured Alvaro Arbeloa wearing his short sleeved home shirt against Barca in the Champions League home-leg at Anfield on 7 March 2007. | Featured Alvaro Arbeloa wearing his short sleeved home shirt against Barca in the Champions League home-leg at Anfield on 7 March 2007. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Liverpool 2006-2007 Champions League Home Player Shirt - This is a match supplied spare shirt of Alvaro Arbeloa at Anfield home-leg against Barca on 7 March 2007. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Adidas 2006-2007 players shirts are characterised by using the formotion seamless design. As expected, there is a climacool tag on the replica (left) and white formotion tag is only found on player shirt (right). |
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| There is a peanut shape adidas laser-hologram (left) on the front bottom side of the replica (on the opposite side of the climacool tag). However, such laser-hologram is absent on the player shirt (right). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From the inner side of the replica, you can see the uncovered sewn-on club crest and adidas motif. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The so-called "formotion" is a texture-breakthrough called "seamless design" (just like Nike shirts from 2005-06 era). Upon a comparison, you can see replica shirt (left) has no air-tex spores on the upper-bound of the slanted inner-front shoulder diagonal. For the player shirt (right), you can see that air-tex spores are present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From the inner side of the player shirt, the sewn-on club crest and adidas motif are covered by a thin layer of protective semi-transparent velveteen. The purpose is to prevent rubbing of players' body if they don't wear a tee beneath the soccer shirt. |
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| Upon a closer look, we can see there are no signs of "seamless design" on the replica (left). Seamless means the joints are not stitched up but instead glued up. If you compare with the player shirt (right), you can roughly see shadowed-shinny portion along the joints - not stitched by threads but in fact glued up by glue. This is what Adidas call "seamless design". |
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| Back to 2000s Player Shirts Episode IV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||