“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“!

The proceeds will be donated to L’Angelo degli Ultimi” (https://www.langelodegliultimi.org/), an important reality in the field of volunteering at Caserta

GIANLUCA SIGNORINI
Celebrative Sticker #35 – Sticker + Folder

Printed in two versions:

Limited and numbered edition 100 copies
SOLD OUT

Standard edition (not limited and numbered)
free offer starting from 5,00€ 
+ shipping (10,00€)

How to pay:

• 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

AVAILABLE NOW!
(limited & numbered edition, copies available 0/100 SOLD OUT)
(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.

“BARON” SCHULL FOR MADAGASCAR! The proceeds will be donated to the initiative ADOPT WITH THE FIGURINE to support long distance adoptions in Madagascar and to support the Center for the Protection and Research of Exotic Fauna of Monte Adone, Marzabotto (Bologna)

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

Cost € 5.00

+ postage costs (for Italy € 5.00, Europe € 10.00)

How to pay:

• 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

AVAILABLE NOW! (copies available 82/300)

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

10 free copies have also been printed, they do not have the consecutive number. These copies were distributed as follows: 5 copies to Garrett and Schull family, 1 copy to Fortitudo Basket Club, 1 copy to ultras Fossa dei Leoni 1970, 1 copy to the Museo Fortitudo Association, 2 copies to the Figurine Forever Association.
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 Club, in the hope that it will never again be questioned

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.

DINO MENEGHIN
Celebrative Sticker #5 * – Sticker + Folder
Limited edition 300 copies

Cost

5,00€

+ shipping (for Italy € 5.00 – for Europe € 8.00)

How to pay:

• 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 sticker is 6,00€
• 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

AVAILABLE NOW! (copies available 122/300)

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: after the expenses have been deducted, the sum will be entirely donated to our campaign STICKER RAISING FOR MADAGASCAR.

* From now on, our Celebrative Stickers will have a progressive numbering and the event in which they are presented will no longer be indicated on the folder. This is the numbering of the previous ones: #1Angelo Schiavio #2Lev Yashin #3Giuseppe Signori etc.

IN STICKERS WE TRUST!