REGGIO EMILIA – Immediately an e-commerce business, then within a few months also a physical store. Cards Hub will open on Saturday in the center of Reggio, in via Monzermone. “We are the first to bring collectible sports cards, an American specialty, to Italy – explain the very young partners Pietro Bertuzzi and Vincenzo Prato, both 23 years old – We sell not only cards all over the world, but also sports memorabilia such as jerseys, accessories, helmets from the American football championship, all autographed or worn by some famous player.” A “fever” that has recently taken hold across Europe. Suffice it to say that the autographed Jannick Sinner card put up for sale by Panini sold out in twenty seconds.
On Saturday, as mentioned, there will be the inauguration of the new commercial space. The appointment is at 6pm, with an aperitif organized by Rebell, which overlooks the same street that was once the hub of the city’s trade. A nice relaunch operation also for the quadrant of via Emilia Santo Stefano.
“The idea of Cards Hub was born in the beginning from my passion for collectible sports cards and for the most famous in Italy trading cards: specifically the cards on American football, of which I am a great fan, but also of other sports equally famous in America (baseball, basketball and hockey) – explains Bertuzzi – I decided to also involve my best friend, Vincenzo Prato Jr, a great fan of basketball and collecting in general, in the world of sportscards”.
Even Giorgio Chiellini, testimonial of CollectIt Cardshow, did not fail to wish the Cards Hub members good luck
“We started by buying NBA boxes together directly from America and we started reselling and exchanging them online. In the first months of 2024, also driven by the announcement of what was the first gathering ever organized in Italy on “cards” (sports and otherwise, such as Pokemon), the CollectIt Cardshow in Milan on 1 June, we decided to throwing ourselves into this adventure and creating an American-style space dedicated to lovers are not of cards, but of sports collecting in general. In Europe the movement of sports trading cards has been gaining ground for a few years now, it is no coincidence that the American giants Dave & Adam’s opened their first European branch in the Netherlands a few months ago, but we are the first to do so in Italy”.
