A 6-year-old boy just designed the new strip for an Italian football club

Players of Italian Serie B team Pescara will wear the new shirts next season

The winning design by Luigi D’Agostino, aged 6, left, and how it will appear on Pescara’s shirts next season. Pescara

Six-year-old Luigi D’Agostino can now call himself a fashion designer, having reimagined the strip for Italian football club Pescara.

What started as a game to help alleviate the boredom of self-isolation in Italy – which, as one of the nations hit hardest by the coronavirus, has been on lockdown since March 9 – turned into a bona fide competition after going viral on social media.

To entertain children unable to leave their homes, the Serie B team of Pescara Calcio 1936 invited fans to come up with new designs for the club’s strip. But when the concept went viral, Italian sports kit supplier Errea stepped in and vowed to manufacture the winning entry.

D’Agostino’s sketch features the club’s mascot of a dolphin leaping across the shirt against a rainbow background. As the pandemic gripped the country, many Italian children began drawing rainbows to put in windows, often adding the phrase “andra tutto bene” (everything will be all right) underneath.

By combining the two visual elements, he has marked this unique moment in time.

To celebrate his winning design, he and his family have been invited to Errea’s headquarters in Parma to watch the new jersey being made.

It will be worn by the team next season.