A big canine was the star of LOSC Lille’s new dwelling package launch

LOSC Lille unveiled their new dwelling package for the 2025/26 season, and whereas a number of of the membership’s gamers had been available to mannequin the design at launch, it was a big canine that stole the present.

The Ligue 1 aspect revealed their newest New Steadiness-manufactured strip by the use 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 obligation. 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 bunch of Lille gamers together with Ethan Mbappé, Lucas Chevalier, André Gomes, and Bafodé Diakité, in addition to ladies’s crew 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 will 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, incorporates a mastiff.

A putting package, a inventive idea – and an excellent boy to high all of it off.