The composition here inverts the usual pattern: jackets form the largest single category, ahead of away shirts and then home shirts.
So if the red and white striped home shirt is what you are after, it accounts for well under a fifth of the listings. Third shirts make up the remainder of the main groups. The range reaches back to the mid-1990s, and that older material surfaces infrequently.
Athletic Club, based in Bilbao, are known as Lehoiak — the Lions — because their stadium was built beside a church named for Saint Mammes, an early Christian thrown to the lions by the Romans. They play at San Mamés in red and white stripes with black shorts.
Athletic are the fourth most successful club in La Liga with eight titles. What sustains international demand, though, is the club’s policy of fielding only players developed in the Basque Country — a restriction no other major European club imposes on itself, and one that gives its shirts a following far beyond Spain.
Condition is graded 1-10 for wear. Spanish sizing from the 1990s is generally closer fitting than British equivalents of the same nominal size, so check the measurement rather than the letter.
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