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Sascha D\u00fcerkop sighs. We just asked him how many football shirts he has. \u201cPfuh, a lot.\u201d Our 26 years old general secretary starts counting. \u201cSo\u2026 I have 153 different FIFA shirts. And 20 from outside FIFA. When you take into account a few doubles, I will have about 200 shirts.\u201d<\/p>\n

His unique hobby started in 2011. With his\u2026 Master Thesis. \u201cYou know, I wanted to do something during the breaks.\u201d He found the blog of Nick Warrick, and got inspired by the English collector. \u201cBefore I bought shirts during holidays. Or before the World Cup. Most of them were fake. Thanks to Warrick I found out that there were a lot of shirts available on Ebay for only 5 euros. And so I bought the first ones\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

A half year later it all freaked out. D\u00fcerkop met other collectors, and it became hard not to gather jerseys. \u201cWhen I got into that community I started to swap a lot. And people all over the world helped me getting the rarest ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sascha doubts when we inquire him after the most special ones. \u201cI love them all basically.\u201d Finally he chooses some shirts with a story. \u201cI have one of Central Afrika, gifted by a player who wore it in a game against Cameroon. I also have a unique piece, from a Madagascar player who scored more than 100 own goals in a league match, as a protest. And there also are the matchworn shirt from Equatorial Guinea and the Eritrean jersey that I got from my friend Dorian Marin. I admit, I fell in love with African football! So those are always the ones I want most. Especially Comoros and Djibouti seem to be impossible to get, which makes them even more sexy to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teams not in the top 100 of the FIFA-ranking? Hard to get. \u201cUntil one day, you find them somewhere by accident.\u201d In that case: buy them immediately. \u201cOtherwise you will regret it for a couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, another tip from our expert: keep yourself under control. \u201cSome shirts are less than 10 euros, others cost like 200. You always need to save some money for the lucky day, when someone offers you a rare shirt for 150 euros. That\u2019s also the reason why I never bought many of the easy but expensive ones, like Canada for example. I just needed to save up a bit and concentrate on the rare ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s only one question remaining: what\u2019s all the fun about collecting football shirts? \u201cThe global village! Having the world in your wardrobe! Each shirt tells a story. I am in contact with people of at least 150 countries and met many of them. It is just a nice experience to connect yourself to the world and hear the issues and joys of others. I had political debates with Central Africans and scientific talks with people from Swaziland. I send them little gifts for their help sometimes and see pictures of those years later. So I am also printing my footstep in the world and can bring a happy moment to others. That is what it is all about, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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