South Sudan 3

 

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vs. Djibouti (1:0) | AFCON Qualifier | 2021 in South Sudan

Once upon a time, South Sudan shirts used to be the holy grail - impossible to find, really. But then, AMS came to the rescue and started to produce their shirts. I got two of those. But what used to be a perfect solution for a collection issue, became a bit of a moral dilemma, when the owner of AMS, Luke W, used his new won skills in the football shirt market to become one of the largest counterfeit dealer globally. His illegal business is now mostly known as "Global Jerseys", though his counterfeits are also traded under a dozen other names by him and a bunch of resellers from around the world. That clouded my love for AMS a lot. Obviously, I do not want to support a guy who is making collecting harder and more treacherous by flooding the world with more fakes than anyone else.

That said, I needed a new South Sudan shirt and thus was very pleased when Macron did not just take over equipping them, but started to sell their shirts, too. They came for about 50€, initially, which is why I only got one version of it, but they were available, at least. It is a bit of a boring first attempt and the later Macron designs were a tad nicer, but I will settle with this one for now, I guess.