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Philippe Coutinho Has Worn Child's Size Shirt for Every Bayern Munich Home Match

Philippe Coutinho has looked an increasingly great fit since he joined Bayern Munich on loan during the summer, but the Brazilian has had to wear child's-size replica shirts in their domestic home games this season.

The official Bundesliga website reported Bayern's shirt manufacturer, Adidas, supplied the defending German champions with this season's kit before Coutinho moved to the Allianz Arena on loan from Barcelona.

The result is that Coutinho, 27, has played the first half of the campaign making do without an "authentic" shirt—which is said to dry quicker than its replica counterpart—in Bayern's home domestic games.