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Kobe x FC Barcelona: New away package collab has Mamba Mentality

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Barcelona have fused their new 2025-26 away package with a touch of sporting immortality with the formal announcement of a partnership between the LaLiga and Liga F champions and Kobe Bryant‘s signature model.

The Mamba Mentality was the title given by the late NBA icon Bryant to his personal private philosophy which he outlined in his autobiography of the identical title. 5 years on from the LA Lakers legend’s passing, the five-time NBA championship winner legacy lives on in his inspirational strategy and a Nike partnership designed to make sure that Mamba Mentality prevails for the generations of younger sport stars to return.

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The collaboration with Barcelona, a primary for soccer, carry a brand new batch of attire which incorporates a number of pairs of sneakers, slides, streetwear and naturally the Catalan membership’s newest away package, which was designed with Kobe’s formidable legacy in thoughts.

With Bryant’s tri-pronged Mamba emblem changing the same old Nike swoosh on the chest, the shirt is pale gold and purple in reference to the best way the Lakers capturing guard regarded on-court throughout his pomp. There may be additionally a snakeskin jacquard sample woven into the fabric as if to sheath the wearer in reptilian armour.

The Barça crest and Mamba emblem have additionally been affixed to the jersey in a textured silicone materials that has been stamped with the identical snakeskin texture. In the meantime the ensemble is accomplished with black-out shorts and socks that additionally come adorned with the Mamba emblem.

The 2025-26 away package has been launched with a video promo that reveals a number of members of Barca’s males’s and girls’s groups conducting considered one of their well-known “rondo” drills because the likes of Gavi and Alexia Putellas undergo their passing paces within the pursuit of exact positional perfection.