LOSC Lille unveiled their new house package for the 2025/26 season, and whereas a number of of the membership’s gamers have been readily available to mannequin the design at launch, it was a huge canine that stole the present.
The Ligue 1 aspect revealed their newest New Steadiness-manufactured strip by means of a photoshoot exterior 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 responsibility. 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 gaggle of Lille gamers together with Ethan Mbappé, Lucas Chevalier, André Gomes, and Bafodé Diakité, in addition to ladies’s workforce 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 might have understandably ignored 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 traces reference the geometric buildings of Lille’s historic buildings, whereas additionally nodding to the membership’s pentagonal crest, which, fittingly, encompasses a mastiff.
A putting package, a inventive idea – and an excellent boy to prime all of it off.
