LOSC Lille unveiled their new residence package for the 2025/26 season, and whereas a number of of the membership’s gamers have been available to mannequin the design at launch, it was a huge canine that stole the present.
The Ligue 1 facet revealed their newest New Stability-manufactured strip by means of a photoshoot outdoors their ‘Domaine de Luchin’ coaching floor – a location that additionally homes the membership’s iconic bronze mastiff statue, a nod to Lille’s nickname “Les Dogues” (The Mastiffs).
However the statue wasn’t the one canine on obligation. An actual-life canine – presumably a mastiff – additionally featured within the shoot.
Towering at what seemed to be over 4ft tall, the canine stood proudly in entrance of a bunch of Lille gamers together with Ethan Mbappé, Lucas Chevalier, André Gomes, and Bafodé Diakité, in addition to girls’s crew stars Jamila Hamidou and Céleste Delcroix.
Behind-the-scenes footage additionally confirmed the canine receiving loads of consideration and affection from the squad, fortunately absorbing the limelight.
As for the package itself – which you will have understandably neglected amid all of the canine chaos – it options the membership’s trademark purple, overlaid with a daring, all-over geometric print.
The membership say the design is impressed by the architectural work of Vauban from the seventeenth century. The interlocking strains reference the geometric constructions of Lille’s historic buildings, whereas additionally nodding to the membership’s pentagonal crest, which, fittingly, includes a mastiff.
A hanging package, a inventive idea – and an excellent boy to prime all of it off.
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