2012 Upperdeck MLS

2012 Upperdeck Retail pack - although not marked as a retail pack. Found this in Target, which was a great surprise to see it amongst the baseball and football cards. The pack sells for $1.00 and has 6 cards. The promotion on the pack says "Look for 2012 Super Draft Rookie Cards" in English and French. There are no memorabilia or autograph cards available in these packs...

The 2012 Hobby pack, which indicates it as a hobby pack in the upper left hand corner retails for around $5.00 offers the promotion "Look for National Pride Jersey Cards!"

The hobby edition features autograph and jersey cards as part of the 200 card base set. The set features the first MLS card for Robbie Keane.Odds of finding game used memorabilia 1:5, autographs 1:20..

Luke Rodgers base card -Rodgers was a Red Bull fan favorite in 201, who did not return in 2012 due to problems obtaining a work visa...

Player Debut cards and Super Draft cards featuring incoming rookies in their college jerseys...

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Purchased a box and got the following:

MLS Teammates - Freddy Adu & Danny Mwanga

Premium Series #4/25

 Benny Feilhaber - NE Revolution

Joel Lindpere - NY Red Bull

MLS Teammates - Brad Davis & Tally Hall

Autograph - Andrew Duran

Seattle Sounders draft pick currently playing for the Atlanta Silverback

2011 MLS All-Star Game

Dane Richards - NY Red Bull, Jamaican National Team

Bouna Coundoul - NY Red Bull, Colorado Rapids, Senegal National Team

Sebastien Le Toux - Philadelphia Union, Lorient, Seattle Sounders

Mehdi Ballouchy - NY Red Bull, Colorado Rapids, Real Salt lake

Carlos Mendes - NY Red Bull

Luke Rodgers - NY Red Bull

Tony Meola - US National Team, MetroStars, Kansas City Wizards, NY Red Bull, NJ Ironmen

Carl Robinson - NY Red Bull, Toronto FC, Wolverhampton Wolves, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Norwich City, Welsh National Team

Lauren Cheney - US National Team

2008 Summer Olympics

2011 FIFA World Cup

Pali Blies - 2009 (W-League)

Boston Breakers - 2010- (WPS)

Ali Krieger - US National Team

2008 Four Nations Cup

2011 FIFA World Cup

Northern Virginia Majestics - 2005 (W-League)

Washington Freedom - 2006-2007 (W-League)

1.FFC Frankfurt - 2007-2011 (Frauen-Bundesliga)

Washington Freedom 2009 (WUSA)

From the pages of Mike's 3rd collection of soccer autographs...all obtained during the 2011 MLS All-Star Fan Fest, Red Bull Stadium, Harrison, NJ 2011.07.27...

All of the MLS players were sponsored by one of the vendors present, Krieger and Cheney were at the game, interviewed by ESPN before the game and brought onto the field during half-time to a round of applause for their efforts in the 2011 FIFA World Cup. We ran into them after their interview in the arena...

Alexi Lalas was also at one of the vendor booths, but since he is not on our list of favorite people after his stint as GM of the MetroStars...

Even though we had previously obtained the autographs of Meola, Richards, Mendes and Robinson, they were added to start off the 3rd book and to stay within the atmosphere of the fan fest....

All of the vendor booths were staffed with great people, the lines were short and the players were very pleasant...

2011 MLS All-Star Game

Volkswagen - The biggest foosball table I have ever seen!

The MLS All-Star game fan fest held outside of Red Bull Arena offered plenty to do, including games of soccer tennis, shooting on targets, being a goalkeeper, X-box games and other activities. The one that Mike enjoyed the most was where I sat in a chair with a water balloon over my head. He gets to kick a soccer ball at a target which would break the balloon and release the water onto my head. Mike hit it on the first shot. The cool water actually felt good as it ran down my back. On my turn I missed all three shots, getting close once.

Pepsi had a street band with street jugglers, Continental tires raffled a signed soccer ball, Allstate gave away jerseys. Several vendors gave away t-shirts, towels, lanyards and photos. I was amazed how many offered a photos - some turned into trading cards, one with the MLS Cup, all with their company logo and the All-Star game logo...

Autographs:

Bouna Coundoul - Red Bull (Colorado Rapids, Senegal National Team)

Sebastien le Toux - Philadelphia Union, Lorient, Seattle Sounders

Carols Mendes - Red Bull

Tony Meola - US National Team, MetroStars, Kansas City Wizards, NY Red Bull, NJ Ironmen

Luke Rodgers - Red Bulls, Notts County, Yeovil Towne

Mehdi Ballouchy - Red Bull, Colorado Rapid, Real Salt Lake

Carl Robinson - Red Bull, Toronto FC, Norwich City, Wolverhampton Wonderers, Sunderland AFC, Portsmouth FC, Welsh National Team

Dane Richards - Red Bull, Jamaica National Team