When Barca is playing, the world stops in Barcelona. If the team wins, the city becomes wild. Everybody is out in the street, singing, dancing, hugging, jumping. Football really brings people together...it is incredible how human kind is suddenly just full of joy.
Collecting football cards is a passion for many football fans. I found myself walking near Sant Antoni market on a Saturday afternoon and a crowded street corner caught my attention. When I got closer I realized there was a football cards trade fair. I almost forgot that this still exists. There were so many people, children with parents, old collectors, and they were so into it that they didn't pay any attention to me when I almost stuck my camera into their eyes. So, yes, the world stopped again for them.
Do you remember the mechanism? You buy packages with different cards or stickers and the album. You have to complete the album with all the cards and if you do it you are the king. Or you just buy a notebook with blank pages and you stick them in. The main idea is to collect them all. But completing this task takes very long time and on the way there are other fun activities like exchanging the double cards. This is like a social event. People meet, they bargain (of course there are special rules like for example you can get 2 cards for some special/rare one that you have), they exchange them and they go home, anxiously waiting for the next trade fair.
8 seems to be THE age for this activity but there are a lot of nostalgic persons. Some of them are doing this since they were young or others stopped at a certain age and are just remembering the times.You just need to have an emotional connection to do it. In Berlin, 2006 World Championship was the moment for everybody to get back to the old times and start collecting the cards that portrayed this event.
Collecting football cards is a passion for many football fans. I found myself walking near Sant Antoni market on a Saturday afternoon and a crowded street corner caught my attention. When I got closer I realized there was a football cards trade fair. I almost forgot that this still exists. There were so many people, children with parents, old collectors, and they were so into it that they didn't pay any attention to me when I almost stuck my camera into their eyes. So, yes, the world stopped again for them.
Do you remember the mechanism? You buy packages with different cards or stickers and the album. You have to complete the album with all the cards and if you do it you are the king. Or you just buy a notebook with blank pages and you stick them in. The main idea is to collect them all. But completing this task takes very long time and on the way there are other fun activities like exchanging the double cards. This is like a social event. People meet, they bargain (of course there are special rules like for example you can get 2 cards for some special/rare one that you have), they exchange them and they go home, anxiously waiting for the next trade fair.
8 seems to be THE age for this activity but there are a lot of nostalgic persons. Some of them are doing this since they were young or others stopped at a certain age and are just remembering the times.You just need to have an emotional connection to do it. In Berlin, 2006 World Championship was the moment for everybody to get back to the old times and start collecting the cards that portrayed this event.
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