Age is Just a Number: Euro 2024's Oldest Volunteer and Record-Breaking Shirt Collection

Meet Reiner Spankuch, the 89-year-old volunteer at Euro 2024 who guides fans with his foam finger and smile. In another odd news, Cassio Brandao from Brazil holds the Guinness World Record for the largest soccer shirt collection, boasting 6,101 pieces including rare jerseys of Pele and Ronaldo.

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Soccer-Age is but a number for Euro 2024's oldest volunteer

Luka Modric is the tournament's oldest goalscorer and Cristiano Ronaldo has now played at six European Championships but neither can get even close to Euro 2024's oldest volunteer. With a foam finger on his hand and a smile on his face, 89-year-old Reiner Spankuch helps guide football fans from all over Europe to their seats at Leipzig Stadium.

Soccer-6,101 pieces of history: Brazilian owns world's largest shirt collection

Brazilian Cassio Brandao walks through rooms filled with clothes racks that in April made him a Guinness World Records title holder as the owner of the world's largest collection of soccer shirts. From rare Pele jerseys to a 1998 World Cup shirt signed by Ronaldo, the 41-year-old Google employee has amassed a total 6,101 shirts since he started collecting them in 2000.

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