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Alajuelense Cup Shirt football shirt 1988

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Alajuelense Cup Shirt football shirt 1988
Alajuelense Cup Shirt football shirt 1988

1988 Alajuelense cup shirt football shirt. Extremely rare shirt used by Alajuelense during the CONCACAF Champions Cup qualifiers and long sought after by hardcore fans.

Alajuelense used the above shirt on both Central American qualifying rounds played in Guatemala and Honduras. Alajuelense overcame Panamanian side Plaza Amador in the first knockout round (in which this shirt debuted on the return match at Alajuela) to qualify for the Guatemala group stage (alongside Salvadoran side Águila de San Miguel, Guatemalan hosts CSD Municipal, and Honduran side Marathón). Alajuelense qualified first to the second group stage at Honduras alongside Marathón, joining hosts (and Honduran powerhouse) Olimpia and Guatemalan side Aurora, also winning the group stage (albeit narrowly) and the Central American championship. Alajuelense was then supposed to face Mexican side Club Morelia in the quarterfinals, however due to the lack of permission given by the Mexican FA given that Morelia is had to fulfill cup fixtures (and some say that Hurricane Joan was a secondary reason), Alajuelense received a bye to the semifinals against Olimpia in a rematch of the group stage match. Alajuelense had switched to its actual home shirt for this fixture (played between November-December 1988) in which Olimpia proved to be the difficult rival which booted Alajuelense out of their second confederation finals in almost two years, courtesy of a late Nahúm Espinoza Olympic goal on the return match at Alajuela (Alajuelense would have qualified on the away goals rule should the match have ended 0-0 level, as the first match at Tegucigalpa ended 1-1).

The above shirt is even rarer than the one used in the CONCACAF qualifiers due to the sponsor being the Alajuelan cleaning products company Punto Rojo and being given to the Reserves. The shirt used by the first team has the same template but changed the sponsor to Jabón Fortuna, which was a soap brand that was made and distributed by Punto Rojo. This is the "home" cup shirt, the "away" one is white with three sashes (red-black-red) which predates more famous examples by Adidas worn some 4-6 years later, and also has the Jabón Fortuna sponsor in both the first team and Reserves version (the latter having small variants but both being almost the same shirt).

Shirt #16 was assigned at least in the first team to midfielder Fray Martín Montero Chinchilla, younger brother of club legend Mauricio Montero. Reservists included future club legend Javier Delgado and players such as Mario Alfonso Durán (who made the first team in 1992), goalkeeper Sergio Chávez Innecken (whose older brother José Carlos was a midfielder in the first team), Rafael Vargas, Duncan Arias and Deiver Vega, alongside others. Alajuelense eventually became national Reserves champions in 1989.

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