Hi Everybody,
this is my first post, hope to find some experts to chat with...
I live in Germany and collect soccer Autos through the Mail,
I got answers from many european clubs.
Like many of you, I wondered if these signatures were real or done by
somebody else. After reading a couple of threds here, it seems like
the majority here take if for proven, that big clubs like Milan, Juve,
Barca, Madrid (I think these were the most often called names) professional Signers.
I will post my experience with these clubs and hopefully start an interesiting discussion :-)
Juventus Turin
I tried writing direct to players and writing to the club central.
I just received an answer from Nedved, he signed my trading cards, but
it took a looong time.
My letter to club included cards of many players and was answered
quickly. The signatures just look like out of kindergarten, even not
being an expert, I consider them clearly faked. During the European
Championship, I received Autographes of del Piero and Camoranesi and
they look much better.
Here are some examples from what I got from Juve:
Nedveds signature looks completly different than the one I received in
his personal letter:
Ac Milan
Same here, I wrote directly to some players and a to the club.
I just received two answers from the personal letters, Kaka and
Ronaldo, a few days before he left the club. I received many AUtos from my letter to the club:
I do not know if I can trust these, but the ones I received directly from the few players, look good to me.
My conclusion is, that players receive fanamail and can decide what
they do, requests going directly to the club are (Juve) or might be (Milan) fakes.
What do you see, can that be? What is your experience?
Could the Autographs received from the player be real?
How about the items which came back from AC Milan?
Is there any proof?
Or is collecting signatures through the mail a matter of believes?
I have very few successes from
spain, I sended many letters to barcelona,
but never got an answer from a player nor the club, instead of Autographes I received some nice posters.
I got two responses from Madrid, the Coach Bernd Schuster, and after a long time,
Saviola signed my cards even with dedication and a copied letter.
Could be the same, Players get the fanmail and deciced if they answer or not.
What do you think about way english clubs handle their fanmail?
I received a few answers from chelsea players signing Trading cards, 2
Answers from Manu including signed Photos, not signing my cards.
Liverpool sended some magazines and nice player profiles, but never
autographs, same with Arsenal with a few exceptions, where players
signed my cards.
Ok, that it for the moment, thanks for reading.
Let me know what you think....