$16 (about £12) · Talisman & Co.
A pale blue cotton dad cap with a small embroidered sun-and-ball motif: Argentina for people who don’t need the badge spelled out. Understated enough to wear every day, instantly recognisable to anyone who knows. One of the easiest gifts on this site.
Talisman & Co. make the kind of football gear you can wear to places that aren’t football. This one is Albiceleste blue cotton twill with a curved black bill and a tiny embroidered sunshine ball, a wink at Argentina rather than a shout. A nod the right people catch.
$16 (about £12) · Talisman & Co.
The peeps over at Footy Bucket will turn your kit into a one-of-a-kind bucket hat! Just send them your kit and they will send it back in bucket hat form. Plenty of pre-made options as well.
€79.95 (about £69) · COPA Football
The shirt from the very first Dutch international, 1905: a 4-1 win over Belgium, hat-trick included. One hundred percent flame cotton, no sponsor, no shield of twelve corporate partners. Football apparel from before football apparel was an industry. It might be the calmest thing you can wear to a match.
€89.95 (about £77) · COPA Football
Inter’s 1982-83 shirt in black and blue, from the season Altobelli scored fifteen and Collovati crossed the city from Milan. Cotton-acrylic knit the way they actually made them, gift box included. The kind of shirt that looks better with a wool overcoat than with shorts, which is the point of Milanese football.