Brazilian’s Soccer Shirt Collection Gets Guinness World Record — VOA Learning English
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Guinness World Records recently recognized a 41-year-old Brazilian man for having the world’s largest collection of soccer shirts.
Cassio Brandão has collected 6,101 shirts since 2000. His collection includes rare Pelé jerseys and a 1998 World Cup shirt signed by Brazilian star Ronaldo.
"They are more than just 6,101 pieces of fabric; they are 6,101 stories that help us tell a bit of the history of soccer," Brandão told Reuters. Soccer is known as football in much of the world.
Brandão keeps the shirts at Alambrado Soccer & Culture, a collectors club he founded, in São Paulo. The club brings together 60 people who trade stories and jerseys. He wore white gloves as he showed the shirts to…
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