Gabriel Martínez has been collecting everything since he was a child. "I used to keep Coca-Cola bottle caps, Bimbo trading cards, stamps, keychains... and, of course, everything else that "I found myself at Espanyol," This die-hard Espanyol fan says that, as an adult, he transformed that curiosity and fascination with objects related to his lifelong club into a passion; almost into one modus vivendiSo much so that, encouraged by his great friend Jordi Puyaltó - the one who knew the most about collecting and historical memory in blue and white - in 2007 he set up his own Espanyol museum in the basement of a family premises he owned in Carmel.

The long queues that have formed at Espanyol's stadium shop since their first kit for the 2025-26 season went on sale last Thursday—the second, white kit was unveiled this Tuesday—confirm the success of Kelme's new design. "It has a style," retro that I like a lot. It's very pretty," he said Captain Javi Puado seeing it live for the first time, during the renewal ceremony of his contract with the club until 2030. The piece evokes the one worn by the team forty years ago, by the Catalan brand Massana, technical sponsor of the club between 1984 and 1994. It stands out for its polo-style collar and sleeves bearing the Massana logo, one of the most characteristic features of that shirt, which has become a museum piece.

There are several trading cards on the table. Lamine Yamal, Leo Messi, Alexia Putellas. Any two people exchanging cards, someone observing the scene from a distance might coldly summarize. But the cards that Ferran Roig (Barcelona, 1977) has left on the table are as if he had drawn ace after ace in a poker game. Some are worth thousands of euros. And those of Lamine Yamal have only just begun to increase in price this year. The one from the Rocafonda neighborhood of Mataró It also drives collectors crazy.