France 2006 Away White Shirt - Zidane No.10 (M)

📐 Flat measurements

Note: this mid-2000s M is longer and wider than a current M. Lay flat a shirt that fits you well and compare these two measurements.

Twenty years on, this white shirt is faultless: no yellowing at the collar or underarms, the woven vertical-stripe fabric is intact, the blue and red trims perfectly crisp. The ZIDANE No.10 printing and both sleeve patches show no cracking at all. No holes, no stains, no pilling. This is the best condition I have seen this model in.

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✦ Authenticity guaranteed for life

Item checked by hand in my authentication workshop. If an item bought from me is ever identified as a unofficial piece, I refund it in full. Guarantee with no expiry date.

• Original adidas label with product code 740125, reference AZB001 and production date 03/06 (photo 4) — March 2006, i.e. the batch made for the World Cup. This is the detail unofficial pieces nearly always get wrong
• FFF rooster embroidered in gold thread with raised black feathers and the 1998 star set separately above (photo 3) — dense embroidery, no loose threads
• FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 patch stitched in the correct position, coloured weave matching the tournament specification
• Full method: authentication guide

📖 2006: Zidane's last summer

Few shirts tell a story this clearly. The 2006 white with blue-white-red trims, with the No.10 of Zinédine Zidane on the back, is the shirt of the final campaign of a player who had announced his retirement before the tournament even kicked off.

🏆 9 July 2006, Berlin. France against Italy in the final. Zidane opens the scoring with a panenka over Buffon in the 7th minute. Then comes the 110th minute, Materazzi, the headbutt, the red card. The last match of a career, all of it in this white shirt.

⭐ Why white and not blue. With Italy playing in blue, France had to switch to their away shirt for the final. That is why the 2006 white — often thought of as the « second » shirt — is in fact the one from the most watched match in Les Bleus' history.

🗓️ The date on the label. 03/06: March 2006. This shirt comes from the batch produced for the tournament, not from a later re-release. For a collector, that is the whole difference between a period piece and a remake.

👑 Zinédine Zidane — born in Marseille in 1972, 1998 world champion and Euro 2000 winner, 1998 Ballon d'Or, three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. Bordeaux, Juventus, Real Madrid. Named best player of the 2006 World Cup despite the final.

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