Qatar World Cup 2022: collector reveals “the scam” in the album of figurines

Qatar World Cup 2022: collector reveals “the scam” in the album of figurines

The boom to fill the official album reached such a point that in just 24 hours the figurines were sold out in all the kiosks of the country, according to Nestor Adrian Palacios Vice President of the Union of Kioskeros of the Argentine Republic.

Nevertheless, the historian Rafael Bitrán told what it is “the fraud” of the new album and explained his working method in chain 3: “I have a very large collection of Argentine figurines. I’m passionate about that. The search is very interesting. An urban archeology work is done. I don’t get so hooked on the modern because it loses the pleasure of looking for complicated things”.

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The scam in the World Cup album

According to the specialist, To complete the album, Panini offers to sell the last 40 missing figures for the price of one envelope ($150) each. That is, an investment of almost $6,000 to get the latest figures that you cannot get.

In addition, he revealed that “there are 20 players, who in addition to the figures that go to the album, they come out with a different background and do not stick. They are 1 every 1600”.

“The second fucked up issue is that there was a huge presale and there were people who monopolized a huge purchase, so much so that in Capital there are kiosks that don’t have them. There were people who spent millions of pesos collecting,” he added.

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high expectations.  The ones generated by the new official album of Qatar 2022, which goes on sale today.

high expectations. The ones generated by the new official album of Qatar 2022, which goes on sale today.

The mistake in the album

In addition to what was revealed by Bitrán, there is an error that went unnoticed by the buyers, which is directly linked to a mistake: the start date of the tournament.

The copies were printed before the confirmation that the event was going to start a day earlier, on November 20, to respect the scheme that began in Germany 2006with the local playing the opening match.

Although the modification of FIFA It was a few weeks ago, the clash between Qatar and Ecuadorwhich was scheduled for Monday the 21st, happened on Sunday and this affected the fixture of the tournament that is reported in the album. This change was confirmed on Thursday, August 11, and the albums are usually released in the months leading up to the event, although in this case the releases did not arrive in time for the correction..

Source: Ambito

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