Where we have already seen the fourth Juventus jersey

These are hot weeks, both for the Scudetto fight and for new releases. After AC Milan presented their new fourth jersey in collaboration with Nemen and PUMA, a week later came the Juventus jersey designed by street artist Kobra and produced by adidas. And it is precisely the latter jersey that has attracted particular attention, not only because of the unprecedented collaboration that has seen football and art fused together but also because it is very similar to one created by Hummel in 2019 for V-Varen Nagasaki, a Japanese football club from Nagasaki, formed in 2005 from the merger of 2 clubs, the Ariake Football Club and the Kunimi Football Club. The old jersey of the Japanese team is identical both in colour - both blue and orange are present - and in design. The shirt, designed by Hummel just three years ago, has more or less the same rectangles and diamond shapes as the kit Juventus wore in the last-second equaliser against Bologna, when Vlahovic scored a goal.

Clearly the Juventus jersey is not a plagiarism, as we have written, the Brazilian artist has designed a vibrant jersey just like his works, only this time transferring all his art from the walls to a jersey, full of rectangles and diamond shapes in different shades of blue and yellow, both on the front and on the sleeves. Kobra is in fact very well known for his kaleidoscopic murals, he has painted over 3,000 on all continents all more or less in the same style and the shirt designed ad hoc for Juventus is consistent and in line with what he has done so far. Hummel has not issued any statement or criticism, a sign that although the shirts are similar, the intention of the street artist was not to be inspired by something that already exists but to create something unique, intersecting two worlds that are apparently distant but close.