A game that has remained in the hearts of the fans Fortitudo, a player who had just arrived in Bologna who took the team by the hand and returned from the away game with a victory together with his teammates, saving the F from relegation to the third series. Perhaps a defeat would have been the end of everything, perhaps not, however one day, April 2, 1992, will remain an indelible memory, both for the many present in Reggio Emilia and for those who followed the match on TV or on the radio.

The Celebrative Sticker #43 solidarity sticker is double, it celebrates the player, it celebrates the event, in the name and in the myth of Teo Alibegovic. The player from Zenica (Bosnia Herzegovina) in Bologna was not known by many, it almost seemed like a “desperate” operation by the F to try to win a fundamental match. The blue-and-white people dream of salvation, they rely on their players and on the newcomer. Who in that short period of time begins to discover the environment, the visceral love for those colors and for that shirt. And he reciprocates.

88-93 the final result of that match, 28 points from Teo Alibegovic. Fortitudo is saved. Teo remains only the following season in Bologna, but that people and the F will always carry them in his heart, even when, excited, he returns as an opponent as a player of Alba Berlin.

The solidarity sticker was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Fortitudo Museum Association which made its photographic and memorabilia archive available, such as for example the highly sought-after match ticket and thanks to the collaboration with Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna 103 which gave the authorization to insert the official logo of the club on the sticker.

TEO FOR THE “ADOTTA CON LA FIGURINA” PROJECT!

With this solidarity sticker it will be possible to support the “Adotta con la Figurina” project where Figurine Forever engages annually in different solidarity projects. Alibegovic’s solidarity sticker is linked in particular to the support the area of Tuzla, Bosnia Erzegovina.

TEO ALIBEGOVIC
Celebrative Sticker #43 – Sticker + Folder
1st numbered edition 192 copies

Free offer starting from 7,00€ 
+ shipping (for Europe 10,00€)
4×3 with four different Celebrative
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00 more
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH CARD YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• On Ebay https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE NOW!
(1st numbered edition 1-192, copies available 34/192)

the folders of the solidarity stickers are numbered, the number you receive is random. The choice of the specific number is a pre-sale service only and only for the members of Figurine Forever.
Copy number 103, like the Fortitudo FIP affiliation code, was not put up for sale, but delivered to the Fortitudo Museum Association.
Copy number 70, with reference to 1970, the year of birth of the ultras group, was delivered to the Fossa dei Leoni Fortitudo Bologna.
Copy number 4 was given to Teo Alibegovic, like the shirt number he wore in the historic match on April 2, 1992.

An unnumbered version was also printed, mainly used for distribution to people involved in this project.

“and with the number 18..”. Brazil is not only the land of great football, there are other sports where great champions have been able to make a difference. Absolute myths for their country but also for the city and fans of a particular team for which they are a symbol, forever (“forever” as we like it). Caserta has never forgotten it, the Celebrative Sticker #35 is dedicated to Oscar Schmidt!

Oscar participated in 5 Olympic Games, holding records of both appearances and points scored, his love for Brazil is exemplary, in an interview he declared that he did not go to play in the NBA because then the US professional players could not participate in the commitments of the national team. USA basketball, in 2013, included him in the Hall of Fame.

As written on our celebratory card, Oscar’s period at Juvecaserta went from 1982 to 1990, almost 300 games played, almost 10,000 points scored. Legendary numbers. With the Brazilian champion, the team from region Campania makes the leap in quality in Italy and Europe, ironically the historic Scudetto in Caserta will arrive only the following year (after 2 lost finals in the 80s), but we are convinced that Oscar too, in the previous years, had contributed well to creating the foundations of the dreamed of triumph.

Oscar Bezerra Schmidt completes a special trilogy of great basketball champions celebrated with our solidarity stickers, touching Italy from north to south: Milan and Varese (Dino Meneghin), Bologna (Gary “Baron” Schull) and now Caserta, the myth of basketball in stickers. More and more hot spots of Italian basketball will arrive where we will go to celebrate them, of course.

The solidarity sticker was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Municipality of Caserta and some Juvecaserta fans, essential for getting in touch with the great champion.

OSCAR SCHMIDT for “L’ANGELO DEGLI ULTIMI” – CASERTA“!

With this solidarity sticker it will be possible to support the “Adotta con la Figurina” project where Figurine Forever engages annually in different solidarity projects and support L’Angelo degli Ultimi” (https://www.langelodegliultimi.org/), an important reality in the field of volunteering at Caserta

OSCAR SCHMIDT
Celebrative Sticker #35 – Sticker + Folder

First numbered edition
100 copies
from 1 to 100
SOLD OUT

Second numbered edition
50 copies
from 101 to 150 – january 2024

Free offer starting from 7,00€ 
+ shipping (for Europe 10,00€)
4×3 with four different Celebrative
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00 more
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH CARD YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• On Ebay https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE NOW!
(1st numbered edition 1-108, SOLD OUT)
(2nd numbered edition 101-150, available jan 2024)
(not numbered edition, available)

the folders of the solidarity stickers in the limited edition are numbered, the number you receive is random. The choice of the specific number is a pre-sale service only and only for the members of Figurine Forever. The number 18 was donated to Oscar Schmidt, like the historical number of Oscar’s game shirt.

“Il Barone” Forever! Ask who Gary Baron Schull was. Each team, each fan, has its own idol, its own myth, the relationship of the American with Fortitudo Basket Bologna goes further. Compared to other champions, his stay lasted perhaps less, 5 years; compared to other American champions, he did not come from the NBA, he did not arrive in Bologna at the middle or end of his career, but at just 23 years old.

In Bologna Schull left his heart and soul, playing 5 seasons for a team that did not have the coat of arms of other clubs but for that very reason it was necessary to breathe fire and flames. So Schull made a famous bloody photo of him, carried in triumph after a derby won against Virtus.

Gary Schull was a great player, on the pitch he made a difference, so much so that he won the ranking of the best scorer in Italy but also that of the best rebounder. He had a huge heart, so much so that he gave up continuing his career in Fortitudo to return to the USA to assist his sick mother.

Fortitudo supporters will have noticed it, it is no coincidence, we waited to arrive at Celebrative # 13 to ideally deliver it to the Baron, it could only be his, like number 7, last year, it could only be dedicated to Gigi Meroni. That same shirt number 13 worn by Schull over the years Fortitudo and by the Bolognese club then withdrawn, now stands at the top of the Paladozza, just above the curve that bears his name and where the ultras of Fossa dei Leoni are crowded. Historical reality of organized support, born in the years of the Baron in Bologna, this too cannot be just a coincidence.

There are emblematic photos of Schull in Fortitudo, often linked to the early years when the sponsor was Eldorado ice cream, which is why we wanted to do something different. The solidarity sticker portrays him with the Alco shirt, season 72/73 (his last in Bologna), his stickers with the Eldorado shirt exist, there is no (at this point, there was no) an Alco sponsored.

In addition, the strong relationship with the fans could not fail to be celebrated in turn and so here he is the Baron, who returned to the city of Bologna, showing the scarf of Fossa dei Leoni at the curve. Most of the boys and girls of the curve were not yet born when Schull wore the colors of the F shield, but it does not matter, his myth has made him immortal, a legend that will never end. Too bad fate took him away too soon.

We would have liked to have sent this solidarity card to the Baron, we will send it to his son Garrett to whom we talked about this project several months ago and he replied happy, also about the social purposes and having involved the fans, who have never stopped loving, they will never be able to do it, dad Gary.

SCHULL FOR THE “ADOTTA CON LA FIGURINA” PROJECT!

With this solidarity sticker it will be possible to support the “Adotta con la Figurina” project where Figurine Forever engages annually in different solidarity projects.

GARY “BARON” SCHULL
Celebrative Sticker # 13 – Sticker + Folder
1st edition 300 copies numbered

Free offer starting from 7,00€ 
+ shipping (for Europe 10,00€)
4×3 with four different Celebrative
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00 more
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH CARD YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• On Ebay https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE NOW!
(1st numbered edition 1-300, copies available 21/300)

the folders of the solidarity stickers are numbered, the number you receive is random. The choice of the specific number is a pre-sale service only and only for the members of Figurine Forever

An unnumbered version was also printed, mainly used for distribution to people involved in this project.

The copy number 13 was not put up for sale but donated to the Schull family. The copy number 103, like the Fortitudo FIP affiliation code, was not put up for sale, but delivered to the Fortitudo Museum Association. Copy number 70, with reference to 1970, the year of birth of the ultras group, was delivered to the Fossa dei Leoni Fortitudo Bologna

CELEBRATIVE STICKER #5: DINO MENEGHIN!

With such satisfaction and pride we are pleased to announce the first Celebrative Sticker dedicated to basketball and we are going great: Dino Meneghin, the greatest Italian basketball player of all time. Finalist 13 times in the Champions Cup (won 7), Varese, Milano and Italian national flag, European Champion in Nantes in 1983 and silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

MENEGHIN FOR THE “ADOTTA CON LA FIGURINA” PROJECT!

With this solidarity sticker it will be possible to support the “Adotta con la Figurina” project where Figurine Forever engages annually in different solidarity projects.

DINO MENEGHIN
Celebrative Sticker #5 – Sticker + Folder
1st edition not numbered 300 copies

Free offer starting from 7,00€ 
+ shipping (for Europe 10,00€)
4×3 with four different Celebrative
one is gift

How to contribute:

• Bank transfer: 
  Bank:Emil Banca – Credito Cooperativo 
  Branch:Borgo Panigale, Bologna Italia 
  IBAN:IT82 Y070 7202 4000 0000 0427 519 
  BIC:ICRAITRRTS0 
  For purchases by bank transfer, please always follow an email to figurineforever@gmail.com
• Paypal to the address only figurineforever@gmail.com, with Paypal the price per card is € 1.00
• IN THE CAUSAL ALWAYS INSERT: WHICH FOLDER YOU WANT TO BUY AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE BEFORE TO PAY ALWAYS POSTAGE COSTS FROM ITALY TO YOUR COUNTRY
• On Ebay https://www.ebay.it/str/figurineforeverofficial

AVAILABLE NOW!
(1st edition not numbered, copies available 101/300)

The folder has been viewed and approved by Dino Meneghin himself, when possible he will be given a souvenir copy. The great champion has joined, given his solidarity purpose.