Collect 'Em All: RBMA FC Trading Cards
Featuring an all-star lineup, a unique high-gloss paper treatment and a stick of gum in every package, this limited edition set of RBMA FC trading cards not only makes a great addition to any football fan's card collection, it also helps support the Red Bull Music Academy team this weekend at the Boiler Room FIVES football championship at Hackney Downs where the squad will be pitted in a 5-on-5 showdown against teams like Dazed & Confused, Domino, XL Recordings, Arena Homme +, BNTL, Numbers, Vice, Green Soccer Journal, i-D, NTS Radio, PRESENT, R&S Records, Fabric, Ninja Tune and Elastic Artists.
Each pack of these exceptional trading cards comes with the full championship team roster – Yannick, Dego, Braiden, T. Williams, Illum Sphere, Akshun Schmidt and xxxy – they're all in there! Packages are moderately priced at £2.99* and also come with a commemorative RBMA FC towel and sweatband. Check the full roster of players below and order your trading pack today!
Name: Yannick
Age: 40
Weight: 79 kg
Height: 185 cm
Position: Eccentric midfield
Power Move: Higuita Scorpion Kick (underwater)
Favourite Team: Kickers Offenbach
Greatest Football Moment As A Player: scoring twice for OFC against Eintracht Frankfurt (U18 match)
Greatest Football Moment As A Fan: World Cup 1990 (Chris Waddle's penalty... rad!)
Warm-Up Tune For The Season: Aksel Friberg & Kicki Halmos – To Be There With You (Todd Terje Extended Disco Mix)
Care About The Women's Fencing Competition At The Olympics? Absolutely. Sometimes I get up at night to watch VHS tapes from previous Games.
Name: Dego ‘Sexy Football' Ranks
Age: 42 – Me a daddy fe dem!!!
Weight: 13St
Height: 6'2
Position: Midfield
Power Move: Nutmegs and laughing at opponents
Favourite Team: Arsenal
Greatest football moment As A Player: Scoring twice against the team that broke my leg on my return from the six-month injury
Greatest Moment As A Fan: Seeing the 1979 FA cup
Warm Up Tune For The Season: Evinha – "Que Bandeira"
Care About The Women's Fencing Competition At The Olympics? Yes, I care about any woman with a weapon!
Name: Illum Sphere
Age: 28
Weight: 180lbs
Height: 5'10
Position: Centre Midfield
Power move: Passing
Favourite Team: Arsenal
Greatest Football Moment As A Player: Setting up 3 in a 6-3 win at Wembley
Greatest Football Moment As A Fan: Sylvain Wiltord, wearing that horrible gold and navy Sega kit, scoring to win the double at Old Trafford
Warm-up Tune For The Season: JTC – "King Of The Box"
Care About The Women's Fencing Competition At The Olympics? Always.
Name: T.Williams
Age: 29
Weight: 10St
Height: 5’9
Position: Left back
Power Move: The side-line Red Stripe boost
Favourite Team: Arsenal (1991-1998 squad)
Greatest Football Moment As A Player: Scoring in my most unfit state ever against Webfusion
Greatest Football Moment As A Fan: Meeting Cyrille Regis at my mate’s house (it’s his uncle)
Warm-up Tune For The Season: Jay Z & Kanye West – Ni**as In Paris
Care About The Women's Fencing Competition At The Olympics? No.
Name: Akshun Schmidt
Age: Born right after World Cup #2 (not counting Wembley), i.e. 1974
Weight: Not only my Uzi weighs a ton
Height: Wuthering
Position: Penalty Killer
Power Move: One-legged fade-away
Favourite Team: 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Greatest Football Moment As A player: Red card in my very first game (ref certainly was not into arguing with 9 year-olds).
Greatest Football Moment As A Fan: 1:0 at Bayern, first match after we came back from relegation (and went on to win the championship). Car broke down 12 klicks in front of the Olympic stadium. Was going berzerk in a garage full of Bayern supporters.
Warm Up Tune For The Season: March of the S.O.D.
Care about the women's fencing competition at the Olympics? Cloaks & daggers, plus masks – what can possibly go wrong? Plus, I went to kindergarten in Tauberbischofsheim, so it's more than evident. En garde!
Name: xxxy
Age: 29
Weight: 12St 8lbs
Height: 6'0
Position: Goalkeeper
Power Move: “The Gurn”
Favourite Team: Manchester United
Greatest Football Moment As A Player: Triple save at a goalkeeping course in front of Bob Wilson (aged 11)
Greatest Moment As A Fan: ‘99 Champions League final in Barcelona
Warm Up Tune For The Season: Ebo Taylor – "Victory (Instrumental)"
Care About The Women's Fencing Competition At The Olympics? No interest (nor in the men, even the Italian dude who shaved ‘God Save the Queen’ on his head).
Name: Braiden
Age: 26
Weight: 70kg
Height: 6ft
Position: Elusive goalhanger
Power Move: cricket style sledging on the pitch
Favourite Team: whichever that one that Dixon from Innervisions owns
Greatest Football Moment As A Player: scoring an elusive reverse header
Greatest Moment As A Fan: they have all been captured in Robbie Savage's seminal DVD Football Howlers
Warm Up Tune For The Season: "Outstanding" by Andy Cole
Care About The Women's Fencing Competition At The Olympics? yes/no? intensely
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- Not including £179.99 for shipping and handling. For more information, please contact 2012rbmafootballtradingcards@redbullmusicacademy.com
