Expressions of solidarity with the thousands of people affected by the Valencia for mortals DANA of last week will not stop happening all over Spain. With this goal of helping and raising funds for victims, collectors Albert Carda (@valenciamemora), Oscar Perez Garrido (@oscarperezgar) and Daniel Peiró (@grichoner), and the journalist Carlos Serantes (@serantesO in X), organized a solidarity auction of about 50 t-shirts that several different footballers and ex-footballers and collectors also donated.
Among the most notable pieces is the official replica shirt that David Villa dressed in the final of World Cup 2010 from South Africa, where the Spanish team won the world cup thanks to a goal from Andres Iniestawho also has one of his Barça shirts up for auction. Another mythical jacket is one of the Sergio Ramos from his time in Sevilledonated by a collector. Another example is the t-shirt the red one where he won final Euro Cupsigned by the coach, Luis de la Fuente. From Aston Vila come two Match Worn t-shirts from the recent Ballon d’Or to the best goalkeeper, the ‘Dibu’ Martínez and international Spanish, Pau Torres.
FC Barcelona player Ferran TorresValencian and has a past in the Ché team, and Carlos Soleralso a former fan of Valencia and currently at West Ham, has pledged to work with the initiative, which has the name ‘Save Valencia’ and whose godfathers are the legendary ex-footballer Mario Kempes and the actor, comedian and presenter Arturo Valls.
This Wednesday at 10 pm, all pieces for auction will be presented at a streaming on the Twitch channel of journalist Carlos Serantes (twitch.tv/serantesweb). “Bidding will be conducted via a single Twitter thread and will close on Wednesday the 13th at 9:00 pm Starting at 10:00 pm on Thursday the 14th, we will be conducting a Twitch streaming of the bid closing based on the maximum amount bid on Twitter thread” said the journalist.
As a sign of transparency, all money collected will be deposited into an account of Sabadell Bank that the Generalitat Valenciana is enabled to collect donations in favor of all those affected by DANA. In fact, The bank agreed to contribute the same amountso if someone, for example, ends up bidding 100 euros for a t-shirt, they will contribute another 100. A PayPal account will also be enabled for everyone who wants to make small donations.
There are many remaining Valencians
Many of the shirts up for auction are from a number of current and former Valencia players. Among them, one of the current coaches, Ruben Barajawhich he dressed as a Che player, he used Yarek against the Mexican team in the last FIFA break, or others used by Gabriel Paulista, Asier of the Furnace, Amadeo Carboni, Rodrigo Moreno either Andres Guardado. Also some gloves Jaume Domènech.
Kubo or Totti, among the rarities
Some of the ‘rarities’ that were auctioned were the shirt he was wearing Take Kubo in a Copa del Rey match against Coria, on loan from a Real Sociedad collector, or an orange Recre shirt, used by Jesus Vazquez in Valencia, or one of the Francesco Totti with the Italian team in the 2002 World Cup.
Source: La Verdad
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