Meyba collaborates with Rave Skateboards for new Rave club kit

It’s 1982 and Barcelona have just spent a world record fee on Diego Maradona. It’s been almost a decade since the club won La Liga, and people might not know it yet, but a new golden era is just around the corner. By the end of his first season, Maradona had won the Copa Del Rey and scored an El Clasico goal so good even the Madrid fans applauded him.

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By the late ‘80s, Barcelona had finally won La Liga again – driven by goals from Steve Archibald, not the Napoli-bound Maradona – and soon Johan Cruyff would return to the club and assemble his golden generation. The team of Laudrup, Koeman, Stoichkov and a fresh-faced Pep Guardiola would go on to dominate La Liga, as well as securing Barcelona’s first-ever European Cup.

That 1992 European Cup final was also the last Barcelona game ever played in a Meyba kit – their bright orange away strip, if you’re wondering – and marked the end of a decade-long relationship with the local brand. Up until it signed a deal with Barcelona in 1992, Meyba had been best known for making swim shorts and beach wear for the people of the city. It’s relationship with the club catapulted it into a new world, and gave it a cult status amongst vintage football fans. After that final, though, Barcelona had moved on. Kappa took over the kit deal, before Nike won the rights to the iconic Blaugrana.

Nowadays, Meyba has moved on, too. In 2020, the label appointed football shirt aficionado Neal Heard as the creative force behind its relaunch, building on its sporting legacy to create a new lifestyle angle. At the time, Heard described his forward-looking plans: “It’s great to have the heritage and work off that, but I want to take it forward. We should be making football shirts