Chievo Verona Home Shirt 2009/10 – Andrea Mantovani – No. 4 – Player Issued – Givova – Serie A

Andrea Mantovani's Player Issued jersey: Chievo Verona's first kit in Serie A 2009/10

The first official AC ChievoVerona jersey for the 2009/2010 season in Player Issued version is an authentic relic from one of the most intense seasons experienced by the Scaliger club in top-tier Italian football. Made by technical sponsor Givova — a Campania-based brand that was building its identity in professional Italian football during those years — the yellow and blue kit stands out for its classic yellow body with blue sleeves and a polo collar with a yellow trim, in full respect of the traditional colors of the club founded in Chievo in 1929. The front features the Merkur-Win logo as main sponsor, with the characteristic black circular sunburst symbol above the text, and the ChievoVerona emblem embroidered on the right chest with the Givova logo on the left chest. The official "Lega Calcio Serie A TIM" patch is applied to the left sleeve. The back bears the surname MANTOVANI and the number 4 in blue, with the stylized figure of Cangrande della Scala printed at the bottom. The jersey is preserved in Excellent condition, with fabric and colors perfectly intact almost twenty years after its production.

The player: Andrea Mantovani

Andrea Mantovani (Turin, June 22, 1984) is a left-footed central defender who linked a large part of his professional career to AC ChievoVerona, becoming one of the pillars of the Scaliger defense for almost a decade. Raised in the Torino youth academy, he made his Serie A debut with the Granata before joining Juventus, from which Chievo permanently acquired him in 2006. With the Veronese club, he experienced the most significant seasons of his career: relegation to Serie B in 2007, winning the cadet championship in 2007/08 with subsequent promotion to the top league, and then years of playing in Serie A as a mainstay of the defense. In the 2009/10 season, the year of this jersey, Mantovani was an undisputed starter in the defense under coach Giuseppe Iachini first and Corrado Orrico later, contributing to Chievo's survival in a highly contested Serie A championship. Endowed with great defensive personality, sense of position, and competitive temperament, he represented for years the solidity and compactness that made ChievoVerona one of the most appreciated clubs in Italian football.

What is a Player Issued jersey?

A Player Issued jersey is a kit prepared specifically for a certain player but not necessarily worn in an official match. It differs from the commercial version due to a series of precise technical characteristics: professional finishes, internal labels indicating the match size, exclusive technical cut and materials reserved for the team supply, superior construction details compared to the replica intended for fans. It is hierarchically superior to the store version and inferior only to the Match Worn. For collectors, it represents an authentic piece of extremely high historical and commercial value, often impossible to find on the market years after its original production.

Authenticity and MTM guarantee

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