Andrea Russotto #21 (Italy vs Cameroon, 13 Aug 2008, TJ Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin)

Andrea Russotto is an attacking midfielder. He's now pursuing his football career in U. S. Catanzaro 1929. This shirt was purchased from mauriz1972ml9q claiming that it's a match-worn shirt. Nevertheless, Azzurri only wore away shirt in the game against Cameroon and Russotto spent all the time on the bench... anyway, it's a special shirt that's worth collecting as this was the first Olympic Games hosted by my mother country.

Famous layering style again by Puma with a small Italy flag, nice!

#21, Andrea Russotto

FIGC badge was not used because Olympic Football Team is not under FIGC. Therefore, a special Italia badge was adopted instead. The design is special and looks like a 'barcode'. It covers the embroidered Puma logo.

Plastic Puma logo beneath Italia badge to replace the masked, embroidered one.

From interior you can see the masked Puma logo very clearly.

Some stain on right chest... but I reckon it should be a match-issued shirt rather than a match-worn one, and of course the price was not a 'match-worn' one :)

'Italia' is missing at the back of the collar, and there is no tiny pores on the nameset (whereas player namesets should have)... maybe the format of Olympics shirts is less stringent than that of FIGC.

A comfortable-to-wear shirt with silky texture

Interior label of washing instructions

Seamless technology by Puma

Andrea Russotto... I could not found the photos or videos of him wearing this shirt, so here provides you with some supplementary photos instead.

From this photo you can know how vigorous the match was.