This month, we stumbled upon the Indiana Jones of soccer jersey collectors. A man whose life and daily endeavors you could surely make a movie out of. A man with over 5,000 soccer jerseys.
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\t\t\t\t\t\tAn Argentinian soccer fanatic by the name of Marcelo Ordas has been scouring the earth for soccer’s most iconic jerseys for 33 years now. Not for passion, but for preservation.
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• The collection is located inLegends: The Home of Football Museumin Madrid, Spain
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• It opened to the public in June of this year
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• Seeing all 600 items takes place over the course of a 2-hour tour
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• Includes virtual reality games and 3D cinema experiences
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• A visit costs about \\$26 USD
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• It is the first of five experience-museums to open across Europe this year, where visitors will be able to see the rest of the 5,000-piece collection
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• Pele’s match-worn Copa Libertadores winning shirts from 1962 and ‘63
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• Bobby Charlton’s match-worn FIFA World Cup™ 1966 winning shirt
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• Ruud Gullit’s 1988 Euro final Netherlands jersey
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• Messi’s match-worn 2021 Copa America semifinals jersey
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• Johan Cruyff’s 1972 Ajax jersey
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• And many, many more.
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• Pele
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• Diego Maradona
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• Steve Hodge
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• Lothar Matthaus
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• Lionel Messi
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This past month, the soccer world waited with bated breath while following the terrifying story of the kidnapping of Liverpool player Luiz Diaz’s parents.

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• On October 28th, Diaz’s parents, Luis Manuel Diaz and Cilenis Marulanda were taken while at gunpoint at a gas station in their hometown of Barrancas in the north-east of Colombia
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• Diaz’s mother was quickly found, left behind in a vehicle by the kidnappers
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• Colombia launched a major militaristic search to find Diaz’s father
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• Diaz had to wait in England due to security and safety concerns, so he could not go home to be with this mother
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• Luis Diaz\xa0withdrew from the Liverpool squad to be with his immediate family in England
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• On November 2nd, the Colombian government announced that a Colombian guerilla group known as Ejercito de Liberation Nacional (ELN) was responsible for the kidnappings
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• This guerilla group has been in a civil conflict with the Colombian government for many years
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• Diaz scored a 95th minute equalizer after returning to the Liverpool squad against Luton Town and revealed a message to his father under his\xa0shirt
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• ELN publicly address the matter in early November, saying the capturing of Diaz’s father was a mistake, and vow to release him
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• After a 12-day ordeal, Diaz was released and four people were arrested in relation to his disappearance
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• Diaz saidhe was made to walk long distances with little sleep in a mountainous area while in captivity
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• The Colombian FA has sinceshared videoof his family’s reunion while Diaz was on international duty last month.
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The worlds of soccer and music collided beautifully yet again this past month. And would you believe they included Taylor Swift, Lionel Messi, Drake and Kevin de Bruyne?
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\t\t\t\t\t\tK. de Bruyne was credited as a writer on Drake’s recent song “Wick Man.” But apparently,it wasn’t Kevin himself…

TheKin question is the lateKoen de Bruyne, whose song “Landscape” from 1978 is sampled in Drake’s “Wick Man.”
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\t\t\t\t\t\tMeanwhile, a Taylor Swift concert caused aFIFA World Cup™Qualifier betweenArgentinaandUruguayto take a detour this month as the pop star is obviously more important and more famous than Lionel Messi.
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\t\t\t\t\t\tSwift’s Eras Tour took place in the home of River Plate, El Monumental. It’s typically where Argentina like to play their biggest home games, due to its 84,000-seat capacity.
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\t\t\t\t\t\tBut Swift needsat leastthat many seats for any given concert overseas,so the AFA had to make way.
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\t\t\t\t\t\tInstead, Argentina hosted Uruguay at the home of Boca Juniors – La Bombonera. They lost a crucial match by a score of 0-2 and it was their first loss since lifting the FIFA World Cup™ around this time last year.
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\t\t\t\t\t\tRemember, Argentina is in the Southern Hemisphere, so their seasons are opposite ours in North America. That makes this a Cruel Summer for Argentina fans.

WorldSoccerShop can’t in good conscience recommend you bid fora full collection of match-worn Messi jerseysfrom Argentina’s FIFA World Cup™ victory in Qatar last year. After all, if you read the story of Marcelo Ordas above, you’d know not even he would pay this kind of fee.
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