My favourite Sampdoria shirt | Stephen Kasiewicz

We caught up with Sampdoria fan Stephen Kasiewicz to talk about his love of the 1990 home shirt, saving up pocket money to go to Greaves Sports - remember them - and Diego Maradona scoring worldies.  

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What was your football shirt?

It sounds terrible but I can’t remember exactly which shirt was my first.

It was probably a Scotland shirt. My first Italian shirt was Milan.  I was a big fan of Milan’s great Dutch trio of Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

I saved up my pocket money to buy it. Long before online shopping I recall going to Greaves Sports in Sauchiehall Street, the Intersport shop on Great George Street and another that sold football shirts in Victoria Road, all in Glasgow. I bought it at one of those shops. They are all, sadly, long gone.

I remember wearing the Rossoneri shirt on a big trip to America in 1990.  A Milan fan noticed the red and black colours and commented on it when we were in the main bus station in Buffalo, New York.  After that it was Sampdoria all the way.

What is your favourite football shirt?

The 1990-1991 Sampdoria shirt is my all-time favourite.

It’s a classic, the combination of the four colours with the shield of St. George in the centre and the club badge on the sleeve. An instantly recognizable kit not only for the design and colour scheme but the players that wore it.

The Blucerchiati won the Serie A title for the first time in the club’s history while wearing the Asics produced kit.

Samp had an incredible team featuring Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, Atillio Lombardo, Pietro Vierchowod, Moreno Mannini and Gianluca Pagliuca. All wore the blue shirt with the white, red and black horizontal stripes with distinction.

Browse our collection of authentic Sampdoria shirts here.

What is your favourite football moment?

Diego Maradona’s magnificent second goal for Argentina as they defeated England in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

It was the first World Cup I can remember watching on television and still the greatest goal in the history of the competition.

Words hardly do it justice. An audacious goal for its spectacular fusion of speed, skill, technique and composure. I have fairly vivid memories of watching in awe as the incomparable Diego left the English defence for dust to score from inside his own half. Phenomenal.

I’m not alone in thinking that Diego is the greatest of all time despite the rather baffling idea that two modern day players should be placed in a higher bracket than everyone else.