A shirt that I had always been interested to get but became unavailable. It would also complete my collection of all the countries in the Conmebol Federation minus Brazil which surprising I don't own any replica football shirt of, probably because I just love the 82 / 78 shirts so much that I just won't get any other.
I received the shirt and after some close inspection, I realised the shirt is not the genuine replica made by Marathon but it is a very decent fake. I actually don't think the seller realises the item is not 100% genuine as it is pretty good. Firstly, The Collar's shape is a bit different to the genuine 2015 shirt.
Secondly, The embroidery is not of Marathon standard. It's decent but doesn't feel like it's done by a well established manufacturer.
While OK, Marathon label not usually embroidered like this and its not perfect enough. The inner labels are not the usual Marathon labels, I got a genuine Ecuador 12/14 shirt bought from them and they have slightly different types of label.
Patch seems a bit not real.
Thirdly, The outer labels at the bottom left / right while very nicely done are not in their supposed area.
Finally, the "Bolivia" transfer print at the back, kind of gives it away. The genuine one probably won't have it. But this kind of add-on is popular in places like Bolivia.
Basically, it’s a decent shirt otherwise, the material is not bad and they gone into great lengths giving it its contours and even put in a silhouette of the crest near the bottom. From my experience, this is more likely to have been bought from Bolivia where these shirts are seen as the good "fakes" that everyone buys for say 15-20 USD when they can't afford the genuine item that is at 60+USD. I have seen these having had the chance to travel to La Paz myself over 10 years ago. Back then I also ended up just having to settle for a good "Fake" since I did not have enough time to find a place where the genuine one was sold. It's more likely than being a GoGoalshop thing as those guys won't go into that much great lengths on faking a not so popular team. They are only good when it comes to the "Big" teams.
