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The Dragon
Shirt Returns

adidas teamed up with award-winning fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, the man behind the adidas Y-3 brand, for one of the hottest releases of the era. The dragon king in the shirt “symbolises the greatness, glory and power of the club”, while the dragon bird represents the club’s “resistance, determination and agility”. The black third shirt also includes the designer’s signature in the collar. Arguably the best design of the adizero era. Worn by a Real Madrid side stacked with Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema, Modric and Casillas, it remains one of the most collected shirts of the decade. Now, it's back.

2014 Real Madrid Third shirt, original release
Cristiano Ronaldo, Untouchable

The 2014/15 Season, His Finest Hour

Cristiano Ronaldo arrived at the 2014/15 season with La Décima in his pocket and a third Ballon d’Or and somehow still found another level. 48 La Liga goals, a career best - enough for the Pichichi and the Golden Shoe. 61 in all competitions. Ten more in the Champions League, sharing the top-scorer title. A brace against Sevilla to win the UEFA Super Cup in Cardiff, then a Club World Cup in Morocco before Christmas. He wasn’t just scoring; he was turning hat-tricks into routine, with that free-kick stance and that celebration becoming the most familiar sights in Spanish football.

Benzema and Bale completed the BBC up front, James Rodríguez arrived as the World Cup’s Golden Boot winner, and Kroos and Modrić set the tempo behind them, with Ramos and Marcelo holding it together under Ancelotti. It was a squad stacked with stars, but there was never any doubt whose team it was. Ronaldo at Real Madrid, at the absolute height of his powers.

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2014 Real Madrid Third shirt, original release
One Of Real Madrid's Greatest Ever Kits

A Heroic Story, Woven In

The dragon king on the shirt represents the club's greatness, glory and power, while the dragon bird stands for its resistance, determination and agility. A black base, Yamamoto's own signature in the collar, and a design that did something very few football shirts have managed before or since: it got football people and fashion people fighting over the same rail.

2014 Real Madrid Third shirt, Yamamoto x adidas
20 Years Of Yamamoto x adidas

A Partnership Still Going Strong

Yamamoto launched Y-3 with adidas in 2002, the first time a fashion designer of his standing had put his name on a sportswear label rather than just borrowing its silhouettes. 2022 marked twenty years of that partnership, and the 2014 Real Madrid Third is the clearest proof of what it was built to do: take a football shirt as seriously as a runway piece, without losing what makes it a football shirt.

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2014 Real Madrid Third shirt, adidas Bringback
A Rarity

Genuinely Hard To Find

The original 2014 release is one of the hardest Real Madrid shirts to track down, which is exactly why it's become one of the most collected shirts of the last decade.

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