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Know our plans and enjoy the country without limits. B> If you are already a subscriber you can enter with your user and password. B> Fernando Morena used between 1980 and 1981 in the Valencia Soccer Club with the same delicacy with which a haute couture designer gives the final touch to one of his creations. He accommodates the sleeves, stretches the bass of the shirt: he brushes the fabric, hardly touches it. That mannequin is the only body that cancels allows his t -shirts to touch. He has 450, which - together with other football articles - make him the largest Aurinegro collector. He has 450 and never uses them. To do so would be a desecration that would erase the epic built around how that shirt went from the body of his idol to a hanger in a room of his house turned into an altar, or a museum in honor of the football club. < /p>

—ni even wash them. I put a product for fungi, I wrap them in Nylon and left them there. Some still have the perspiration of the player, ”he says. B> Peñarol became a world champion after beating Real Madrid . "He has the sobacos eaten away from so much sweat," he says. To conserve all that, he placed it between two glass sheets. Hanging on a wall looks, untouchable, that number 11. At that time the players had one, maximum two shirts per championship. Changing or giving it to it was an important decision. On YouTube is the full video of the game, whose last scene is the exact moment in which the Spanish Amancio Amaro approaches jewel, which helps him take off his shirt and stays, but does not give him His in return. He moves away between hugs from companions and fans. That is the shirt in front of me. It is much more than a fabric. This is what this works. Her husband had been a jewel friend and he gave her that shirt after the victory. The man had died and she wanted to sell her. It is difficult for this type of t -shirt to appear, so you have to confirm that the story is true, ”says cancels. . To approach the truth, a collector consults a colleague, use the information provided by the audiovisual, photographic and journalistic records of the time to see what the garment was like at that time in particular, and tries to ratify the story with the protagonists - If they live - their relatives, or witnesses of the episode.

Cancela visited the neighborhood where the deceased friend would have had a trade; The neighbors confirmed it. He then studied the numbers of the shirt. "The numbers are sewn at a precise distance from the stripes," he explains. Collectors are looking for details. They analyze the type of fabric, neck, typography and number material; Among the most modern jackets check the model, the label, the brand, the advertising, the patch. And everything is compared to the documented information of the time. But there is always a margin of error and the rest does the confidence in which he sells.

The issue today is that sellers multiplied. And the buyers multiplied. And the figures multiplied.

again: nothing is like before. Cancela says: "I am staying out because if I don't get sick." There are many people behind a product that is finite. The competition is fierce. What happened in Argentina is happening and we saw sideways. It is crazy.

Business smell. The treatment was face to face. Getting a shirt could become a detective adventure, which sometimes included trips abroad to buy or make a exchange with collectors from neighboring countries. Before, old shirts appeared at the fairs. They kept you, total, how many could love them? There was not much awareness of its value. They cost - mostly - little money. Then, it was common for the collector to tell him how much you want for the shirt you have and the person answered that a few hundred pesos or nothing, that he would just give him something not to walk the rest of the naked day. P> In a more or less episode of this style, on December 24, Juan - so, without a surname he asks him to name it - he got a Uruguay shirt in the world of Mexico of 1970 , which He added to his exquisite collection of Danube and the selection . "I ask him." I'm not going to tell you. , who met annually with his pair of Argentina and organized exhibitions, but currently it is a Facebook group with about a thousand members who permanently upload photos of shirts for sale, mostly recent, and make transactions there .

is that it depends on the angle on which he looks at it, that local collecting has never been as competitive, professional and international as it is now good news; Or, on the contrary, the different factors - which we will see how - recently promoted interest in t -shirts with history changed the traditional collecting codes for worse.

hobby or business? Are they compatible? If in search of a shirt other valuables appear, those are sold and the money is reinvested in the collection: it is a financing route. However, in some cases that trade became a second income. Some began to see as a future investment: a kind of asset that over the years is revalued. He does not buy four years ago. Instead, he sold part of his collection and waits to loosen the pandemic to travel to Europe to offer some treasures of the selection , among which has one of the three shirts that - until where it is known - They subsist the First World Cup of 1930 . Those who regret this scenario change qualify some of them as "joints" and boast of never having "hose" t -shirts to a player. But the reality is that sometimes they are the ones who are responsible for selling the jackets of those who want to take care of their reputation.

the ego. The ego also had to do with this collector boom; Let's say it was the one that ignited the flame that the pandemic later turned into fire. According to Juan, the turning point was that access to these garments changed.

with social networks began to expose them, such as trophies. Others began to notice that there was a market for that inherited garment that was at the bottom of the closet. Soon they began to offer them and with the supply the demand came. The online purchase and sale platforms /B> made that after a click and a monetary transfer the shirts began to travel from one point to another from the country, from one end to the world. Some say they pay taxes, others declare them as gifts. So why not make this a business? It ended - almost - I keep it for when you can. > and the selection . Some sell them, but usually they stay. Not anymore. You write to the seller and tell you that she has sold her two minutes after the photo has uploaded. , since the pandemic started, he receives this type of messages: “I want to start an entrepreneurship, how do you do to get t -shirts?” Collectors have their sources. The right thing would be not to reveal them, since he is frowned upon for a player to detach himself from his shirts. However, once again pride can more and after a “do not say it but” a long list of active and retired soccer players, leaders, referees, users, friends of, relatives of, who sell their own shirts, exchanged or given away . And then there are the collectors who, as Juan did, are selling part of his collection. And there are individuals who begin to part with these treasures. Mine is a beautiful story, ”says Alfredo Pintado, collection t -shirts and new since 2009.“ That day they had fired me from my work and I had been walking and praying. He told me, what happens Alfredo who again fired you. I knew I had a patron's soul but I didn't know why. Then he calls me my sister and tells me that those shirts that I had were selling on the Internet. I had no computer or photo camera, so I went to her house. We upload it to Mercado Libre and at 10 minutes I had sold it. And so I started. ” Pintado says that he does not move in the "high level", his is more "street." It is to go to fairs, deliver cards or walk in a motorcycle looking for someone who is wearing a shirt that does not know what it is worth. "I have undressed many people on the street," he says mischievously. He must have about 3,000 shirts, he calculates. "I even have them in the bathroom." In Pandemia he buys everything he can. “The Covid is going to end, and when people want to buy who will have them? Alfredo, ”he answers. Now they are too much behind the same but he assures that he still gives him to live: "For some the shirts are a better investment than gold." a lot of". The conversation begins with "I am unemployed" or "they sent me to insurance." The countercara of those who are selling out of necessity is the boom of new collectors that, moved by the leisure or a certain savings that generated the confinement by the Covid-19 , started to acquire t-shirts; or those who sniffed an "easy" business to start with a modest investment. Prices shot. If I used to buy for 1,500 pesos, now the same shirt is worth between 500 and one thousand dollars. It is no longer that I get the shirt I want, if I can't, I can - says Augusto Umpiérrez , owner of 250, administrator of the Instagram account gathering t -shirts in which as an irony wrote “donations by private”. Donations no longer exist.

Among the brand new resellers they live together Type of profiles. There is the case of Agustín Sanz , @pilchasclassics , which last February tried luck importing original manufacturing shirts, new, but that reproduce retro models. < /p>

—As vintage is a trend I began to bring t -shirts from past World Cups, especially the '90 because They remind me of my childhood. I am going barbaric. The hit is the Diego Maradona in Boca of ‘97. Then the Juan Román Riquelme in the mouth of the '96 and Enzo Francescoli in River between '96 - '98.

Note the amplitude of the temporal frame. This would be inconceivable for those looking for the shirt that such a player used in such a particular game. And if the garment comes with mud or blood, as well as sweat, it is better quoted: because the valid. /B>, it is a hybrid between collector and revenue. Being a hybrid, he lives on this, boasts. He has 300 that he does not sell and another 100 that yes: they were "used at stake" or imported from stores. But what happens is that here almost nobody values ​​t -shirts with history, what is sold more is one of the Juventus , or the last one of national or the new one of < B> Peñarol . For those they pay you what you want, but for the important ones. ” Although eye, that shirt, within a few years, who knows.

Repatriation. Those circulating were used or given away by soccer players. Therefore, when he was a child Guillermo Moratory he felt that they were unattainable pieces. Now it has 400 between national , the clubs in which richard "chengue" Morales - his contemporary idol, “because he returned hope after the five -year period of Peñarol < /B> ” - and the selection . The rest of the collection, the jewels, are in a room. In the radar of the shirts there are many people, but in the first line we are the purest collectors and I know that the rest knows what I am looking for and that if they appear they will show them - confused.

has sense. In the local market the collectors prioritize their painting - the stars are the t -shirts of Peñarol and national -, and then there is the selection . Meanwhile, everything that once came from "outside", goes to "outside." That is, the jackets that appear from foreign players or Uruguayan soccer players who integrated foreign teams, are sold out of borders and at very good prices. And also those of Uruguay. Among others, last year he auctioned a Peñarol shirt that he used Walter "Indio" Olivera during the Copa Libertadores de 1982 . But, due to the proximity to the centenary of the first World Cup , today the most valuable shirts are those of Uruguay in 1930. Those are appraised between $ 10,000 and $ 15,000. "We have sold a lot to an Asian Foundation that is preparing a museum and that it is seen that pieces of the countries referring to the World Cups are collected," he says. There are many

say that in Argentina, where the rage for the collection shirts began years ago, falsifications abounded. So much so that when local collectors crossed the puddle they knew that there were 50% of chances of falling into a scam. Luis Reynante, collector and revenue, tells the commented case of an entrepreneur who bought ancient fabric, assembled the shirts as if they were historical and even put them in an oven to give them an old texture. They discovered it. And in Uruguay? It happens, but little. Much more common is the assembly of props. A t -shirt is bought in a store and the number and name of such a player, or a patch is placed, and a story is assembled as if it had been used “at stake”.

for the collectors the collectors T -shirt repatriation has an extra flavor. This happened with one of Peñarol 1917 who was in possession of an Argentine journalist of the graph and that Uriel Cancela recovered. Or a national shirt of 1905 that the family of an former player of the extinct alumni athletic club had in the neighboring country and was going to stop at an auction in the United States .

- the just made of thinking that this shirt was going to go ... I also think that why we have to go out to rescue them and the club does not do, ”says Moratory.

Next to Antoine Yapor , a key figure in the new turn of collecting, managed to retain it and finally ended in the moratorium collection. … —Arriba of $ 5,000? " It was hard. But now it's mine.

The shirt is huge. It looks like an old nightgown. The fabric is like a worn silk, raw color, with the national embroidery shield, in red, in a pocket. The shirt was used inside the bermuda and everything was sustained with a belt.

I have to touch it. I ask permission and barely support a finger on the fabric is sneak up from the hanger and go to the floor. B> is 26 years old. At 19 he began to build a collection of historical, international t -shirts, which are positioning the collecting Charrúa to another level. I tell myself, ready, it was here. But a jewel always arises and the illusion is renewed, he says. He put story in fabrics . But this, unlike others, has marketing. When he started, Yapor printed flyers. They said something like I buy collection t -shirts, payment well. After the flyers came the investment in social networks, where he accumulates thousands of followers. And after the networks he landed on television. Every Sunday Visit Criminal Point, tells the story behind two t -shirts and repeats on the air that buys t -shirts.

and wait. Alone, because it allows me to reach a veterans audience that does not wear networks, and are the ones who have the best saved shirts, ”says the young businessman. "Many" from different parts of the world ask him to get - "capture" - some punctual. Then he finds out what Uruguayan players were in a certain game and start calling them. He carries a register by hand - "for the doubts that I get lost if I keep it on a computer" - of all the players whom he once located. Every a few months, he contacts them again. Or players like Alejandro Lembo (along with another collector). But he also buys the family of some of the most important current players of the selection .

- the players now have the value of what they have. I throw myself, I show you what I do, I send you photos of the museum. I ask them if they have something they can sell. It goes a lot in the person. If the children are very entrenched, forget. But there are people who are more detached, or accept to get rid of a particular shirt, and there begins the pull of you on this side, which is the money you can offer.

for security, because for now There are no insurance for this type of fluctuating collections, Yapor chooses with tweezers who visits the museum. He says that there will have been about 15 people. "More than beauty that attracts me to the shirt is your story." This is the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores of ‘71 , in which national was champion. It was sold to me the son of the defender Héctor Chumpitaz , who played at University of Peru >

Behind this shirt, another jewel. "The brother of Santiago" Vasco "Ostolaza contacted me. It is the T -shirt of the Intercontinental Cup of Tokyo in 1988 . GANA national by penalties. Ostolaza made two goals. This was used only in that party. At that time, each player had two shirts. This makes her more rare and that's why more expensive.

"What so much? It will be very difficult for her to sell her.