Tag: Signed Memorabilia

The Road to B Corp Status

The Road To B Corp Status
December 30, 2025
From Our CEO

The Road to B Corp Status: Icons Shop Ltd’s 10-Step Journey Toward Certified Sustainability
By Dan Jamieson, CEO

When we started Icons.com, our mission was to connect fans with authentic pieces of football history. But as we’ve grown, so has our responsibility to the communities and planet that make this beautiful game possible.

That’s why we’ve embarked on one of our most ambitious goals yet: achieving B Corp certification.

B Corp status isn’t just a logo; it’s one of the world’s most rigorous certifications for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Only companies that meet the highest verified standards earn it.

Our journey hasn’t been easy. From overhauling our supply chain and packaging to restructuring governance and employee wellbeing programs, we’ve transformed how we operate at every level. We’ve audited our carbon footprint, introduced community initiatives supporting grassroots football, and committed to full transparency in our impact reporting.

In the video above, I walk through all 10 steps we’ve taken, the challenges we faced, the changes we made, and why this matters for a sports memorabilia company.

Because if we’re going to profit from the sport that brings millions together, we have an obligation to operate with integrity, give back to communities, and protect the planet for future generations.

Watch the full journey above, and join us as we work toward certification.

For any enquiries or updates with B Corp, please contact customersupport@icons.com


The Lengths We Go To: Why Icons Is Different

November 25, 2025
Collector's Club Why We Love

At Icons, we don’t just sell signed memorabilia; we deliver experiences that match the magnitude of the names on our products. When you’re dealing with pieces signed by the world’s greatest athletes, standard service isn’t an option.

Recently, our team embarked on a 36-hour journey to hand-deliver a collection of extraordinary pieces to a client internationally: a Diego Maradona & Lionel Messi Signed Argentina Shirts In Classic Dual Frame, a Sir David Beckham & Lionel Messi Dual Front Signed Inter Miami CF 2024-25 Home Shirt In Hero Frame, and a Lionel Messi & Lamine Yamal Signed Argentina and Spain Shirts In Classic Dual Frame.

Rather than risk damage through traditional shipping channels, we flew out personally, professionally framed the pieces on-site to guarantee perfect presentation, and delivered them directly into the client’s hands.

Was it necessary? Absolutely.
Was it expected? Perhaps not.

But it’s exactly this level of commitment that separates Icons from everyone else in the industry.

Why We Do Things Differently

Every piece of memorabilia we authenticate carries the signature of an Icon, athletes who’ve dedicated their lives to being the absolute best at what they do. Our service philosophy is no different. We’re not satisfied with “good enough” when it comes to protecting and presenting these pieces.

When you’re handling dual-signed frames featuring Messi alongside Maradona, arguably the two greatest players ever to grace a football pitch, or a shirt bearing the signatures of Beckham and Messi, the stakes are too high to leave anything to chance.

For high-value collections and discerning clients, our VIP Club Service provides a completely tailored experience:

  • Hand-picked product curation based on your specific interests and collection goals
  • Personal consultation with our expert team
  • Premium framing and presentation options
  • White-glove delivery service, including international hand delivery when required
  • Exclusive access to limited edition releases and one-of-one pieces

Best-in-Class, Because Anything Less Isn’t Good Enough

While other companies see memorabilia as products to ship, we see them as investments, heirlooms, and pieces of sporting history that deserve to be treated with the utmost care.

From our revolutionary TripleLock™ authentication technology, featuring individual signing photos, NFC verification, and tamper-proof holograms, to our willingness to fly across the world to ensure perfect delivery, every detail matters.

Because when you’re trusted with signatures from Messi, Ronaldo, Maradona, Beckham, and football’s greatest Icons, anything less than world-class service simply isn’t an option.

Interested in our VIP Service?

Whether you’re building a collection, searching for that one perfect piece, or require white-glove service for high-value memorabilia, our team is here to help.

Contact us today to discuss how we can create a tailored experience for you.


Win one of THREE shirts signed by Lionel Messi — with all-new TripleLock™ technology!

November 20, 2025
Giveaways & Competitions

It’s time for another world-famous giveaway! That’s right, we’ve once again teamed up with the one-and-only Lionel Messi for another internet-busting competition. This time we’re giving away THREE framed shirts signed by the iconic 2022 FIFA World Cup winner in association with the launch of Icons’ TripleLock™ technology!

The prizes up for grabs were all genuinely signed by Leo during private signing sessions conducted exclusively with Icons.com.

Depending on your entry you could be in with a chance of winning a signed and framed Argentina shirt, a signed and framed FC Barcelona shirt, OR a signed and framed Inter Miami CF shirt.

Best of all, all three of these shirts is guaranteed authentic by Icons’ brand new TripleLock™ technology, which Lionel Messi himself has described as “the next level of authenticity.” Click here to learn more about TripleLock™.

And, as ever, it could not be more simple to enter our giveaway. All you need to do to be in with a chance of taking home one of six signed and framed shirts is to get over to Leo’s official Instagram and/or Facebook page and follow the instructions below…

TO ENTER VIA INSTAGRAM:

1) Comment #IconsARG, #IconsFCB OR #IconsMIA on Messi’s official giveaway post
AND
2) Follow Icons.com’s official Instagram account

TO ENTER VIA FACEBOOK:

1) Comment #IconsARG, #IconsFCB OR #IconsMIA on Messi’s official giveaway post
AND
2) Follow Icons.com’s official Facebook page

The prizes come complete with official Certificates of Authenticity (COA) which have unique, individual photographic evidence of Messi signing the exact shirts in question as well as providing the date and location at which it was signed. You can also scan the new NFC tag on each of these products to access your individual digital vault of authenticity information.

We’ll draw all three winners completely at random from all valid entries – from Instagram, Facebook and Weibo – and announce the lucky names on the official Icons.com social media pages shortly after entries close. So keep your eyes peeled!

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  1. The Promoter of this prize draw is Icons Shop Limited (registered in England under company number 06791294 and with its registered office at Unit 7, Airfield Industrial Estate, Airfield Way, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 3PE) (the “Promoter”).
  2. The Promoter is offering those who enter this promotion via Facebook a chance to win one of three prizes depending on their entry. The three separate prizes are 1x Lionel Messi Official Front Signed Inter Miami 2024 Home Shirt: MLS Supporters Shield Winner 2024 In Classic Frame (Icons.com SKU LMGM0005CF); Lionel Messi Official Front Signed and Framed Argentina 2022-23 Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 2022 FIFA World Cup Winner Stats Edition (Icons.com SKU LMGM0057CF); and 1x Lionel Messi Official Back Signed FC Barcelona 2018-19 Authentic Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 778 Appearances Edition (Icons.com SKU LMGM00010CF).
  3. The Promoter is offering those who enter this promotion via Instagram a chance to win one of three prizes depending on their entry. The three separate prizes are 1x Lionel Messi Official Front Signed Inter Miami 2024 Home Shirt: MLS Supporters Shield Winner 2024 In Classic Frame (Icons.com SKU LMGM0005CF); Lionel Messi Official Front Signed and Framed Argentina 2022-23 Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 2022 FIFA World Cup Winner Stats Edition (Icons.com SKU LMGM0057CF); and 1x Lionel Messi Official Back Signed FC Barcelona 2018-19 Authentic Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 778 Appearances Edition (Icons.com SKU LMGM00010CF).
  4. Multiple entries per person are permitted. Entries will be accepted on Facebook and Instagram only, provided they fit the entry criteria outlined in these terms and conditions. However, entries submitted on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed. Incomplete, illegible, misdirected or late entries will not be accepted.
  5. To enter this prize draw on Facebook to win the Lionel Messi Official Front Signed Inter Miami 2024 Home Shirt: MLS Supporters Shield Winner 2024 In Classic Frame, entrants must follow Icons.com’s official Facebook account (@iconsfootball) and comment #IconsMIA. Entrants will need to do both to validate their entry into the giveaway.
  6. To enter this prize draw on Facebook to win the Lionel Messi Official Front Signed and Framed Argentina 2022-23 Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 2022 FIFA World Cup Winner Stats Edition, entrants must follow Icons.com’s official Facebook account (@iconsfootball) and comment #IconsARG. Entrants will need to do both to validate their entry into the giveaway.
  7. To enter this prize draw on Facebook to win the Lionel Messi Official Back Signed FC Barcelona 2018-19 Authentic Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 778 Appearances Edition, entrants must follow Icons.com’s official Facebook account (@iconsfootball) and comment #IconsFCB. Entrants will need to do both to validate their entry into the giveaway.
  8. To enter this prize draw on Instagram to win the Lionel Messi Official Front Signed Inter Miami 2024 Home Shirt: MLS Supporters Shield Winner 2024 In Classic Frame, entrants must follow Icons.com’s official Instagram account (@icons_memorabilia) and comment #IconsMIA. Entrants will need to do both to validate their entry into the giveaway.
  9. To enter this prize draw on Instagram to win the Lionel Messi Official Front Signed and Framed Argentina 2022-23 Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 2022 FIFA World Cup Winner Stats Edition, entrants must follow Icons.com’s official Instagram account (@icons_memorabilia) and comment #IconsARG. Entrants will need to do both to validate their entry into the giveaway.
  10. To enter this prize draw on Instagram to win the Lionel Messi Official Back Signed FC Barcelona 2018-19 Authentic Home Shirt In Classic Frame: 778 Appearances Edition, entrants must follow Icons.com’s official Instagram account (@icons_memorabilia) and comment #IconsFCB. Entrants will need to do both to validate their entry into the giveaway.
  11. The winners of the giveaway will be selected at random by Icons.com.
  12. No purchase is necessary to enter this promotion, however internet access is required.
  13. The prizes are non-refundable, non-transferable and non-exchangeable and there is no cash alternative offered.
  14. The Promoter reserves the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value. In the event of unforeseen circumstances or circumstances outside its reasonable control, the Promoter reserves the right to modify or discontinue this promotion without prior notice, be it temporarily or permanently.
  15. The winners will be selected from all valid entries received during the promotional period. The draw will take place no later than fourteen days following the end of the promotional period.
  16. The winners will be notified within ten days of the draw via the social network platform on which they entered the competition. They will be asked to provide a postal address to which the prize will be sent. If a winner fails to respond and/or to give a valid address within five days of this notification, or declines their prize, a redraw will take place from the remaining valid entries to select a new winner (however, this five-day period may be extended at the Promoter’s sole discretion). If a winner declines their prize, or fails to respond within the required period, they forfeit any right to the prize.
  17. The prize will be sent via post to the address supplied within two weeks following provision of the winner(s)’s address in accordance with the T&Cs.
  18. The name and county of residence of the winner(s) will be made available on request to anyone sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to the Promoter as the address set out above within 10 weeks of the closing date of the promotion.
  19. The Promoter does not accept responsibility for network, computer or software failures of any kind and has no responsibility for lost, delayed or misdirected entries.
  20. The Promoter reserves the right to exclude any entries the Promoter in its sole discretion considers to be inappropriate, unrelated or offensive and to disqualify any entries if the Promoter, at its sole discretion, believes that there has been an attempt to manipulate or tamper with the operation of the promotion (including, without limitation, by setting up multiple email, Facebook or other social media accounts in order to submit multiple entries).
  21. By entering this competition you agree that the promoter may store and use the data you enter into this competition and contact you. You agree that the promoter may store and use any image and/or comment you post as your entry for this competition, and may use your name and competition entry in its social media channels and website (including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and icons.com), worldwide and without limit of time. You understand that you won’t have any right to preview or pre-approve the content (and, that you won’t be entitled to any kind of payment) in the event that it is used by Icons as noted above.
  22. Except for the purpose of carrying out the promotion, the Promoter will not use entrants’ personal data without the express consent of the entrant. See http://www.icons.com/about/help/privacy-policy.html for our full privacy policy.
  23. You agree to be bound by the decisions of the Promoter, which are final in all matters relating to the promotion. No correspondence will be entered into in respect of the Promoter’s decisions.
  24. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed exclusively in accordance with the laws of England and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England, including the seeking of all injunctive or ancillary relief actions.

Visit the worldwide exclusive home of Lionel Messi signed memorabilia by visiting Icons.com today…

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FROM OUR CEO: As Luis Enrique Proves, Authenticity Is Everything

June 6, 2025
From Our CEO

Authenticity is everything. Always.

Luis Enrique won the UEFA Champions League with Paris Saint-Germain last weekend, becoming only the sixth man to win the title with two different teams. He’s a true icon of the game.

Eleven years ago I wrote “authenticity is everything” because without it we have nothing. This piece was about Icons.com as a brand and our endless quest to prove that our signed memorabilia products were and are genuinely signed by the world’s best and never faked.

Something else I said recently, when describing how we’ve survived in the shark-infested waters of football memorabilia for 26 years, was that we turn up on time, we pay our bills and we do what we say we will. Sadly, in the world of football, the bar can set very low for such things.

Looking back, I hadn’t appreciated just how much and how often we worry about the authenticity of our products, while striving to be authentic as people in all that we do.

Before our signing with the then one-time UEFA Champions League winner, we’d been told that Luis Enrique was quite a prickly personality and didn’t suffer fools gladly. So, as we climbed a mountain in a minibus in a nature reserve outside of Barcelona, and came upon a set of ornate iron gates, we were worried we were arriving little late.

We needn’t have been concerned as we were met by a handsome young man who helped us into the estate with a smile on his face. Enrique’s son, Pacho, offered us drinks, helped us with our cases and showed us into the office where the signing would take place. 

Luis arrived. To say he was friendly and welcoming is to underscore his charisma; he immediately smiled, hugged and welcomed every one of our team to his beautiful home in Finca. He carries a definite energy, a special “fuerza vital” or life force that lights up any room he’s in.  

The next two-hour signing session were to become my favourite of all the hundreds we have ever done. We barely talked football. We chatted about how he had completed the Marathon des Sables, the toughest running competition in the world; how he’d competed in ironman triathlons; how he had gone to Australia to clear his head and learn to surf post playing career; and how he had a new obsession: cycling. It was partly why he now lived with his family in a converted farm on a mountaintop. Because, as he put it, “it’s always uphill to get home.” 

Luis was out of work at the time, not knowing what the future would hold. But he was truly engaging and genuinely interested in us too. I found a common interest in the architecture of Alvar Aalto who had inspired my own family home built by my architecture parents and how Luis had battled for years to bring his crumbling Finca vision to life. It was a true challenge, he said.

This was not been his greatest challenge, however. Far from it.

His beloved daughter Xana had died after a battle with a rare form of bone cancer aged just nine. He’d quit his job with Spain to be with her and his family in their darkest hour. In a documentary about his life entitled You’ve No ****king Idea it’s remarkable how he reframes the worst possible outcome. 

“Can I consider myself lucky or unlucky?” Enrique says. “I consider myself to be lucky, very lucky. My daughter lived nine marvellous years with us. We’ve got a thousand memories of her, videos, incredible things.”

Enrique then continues: “My mother couldn’t keep photos of Xana until I arrived home and asked her “why aren’t there any photos of Xana, Mum?” ‘I can’t, I can’t’. “Mum, you have to put [photos of Xana] up”. Xana is alive. She isn’t in the physical plane, but she is in the spiritual plane. Because every day we talk about her, we laugh and remember.”

Famously he laughed, joked and played with Xana on the pitch after his FC Barcelona side won the UEFA Champions League — and the treble — in 2015. The most iconic image of the night is of Xana planting a massive Barca flag in the turf with his help.

In the press conference leading up to this year’s final he explained again how, while Xana could not be with him in person in Munich, she would be there in spirit. After Luis’s Paris Saint-Germain side won convincingly, the incredible, raucous PSG fans unveiled a massive tifo that moment. As authentic as ever, Luis described after that “my daughter has been with me since she left… I don’t need a win or a defeat in the Champions League: I feel it anyway.”

I wrote to his family the day after the final in Munich to say my own young boys were in tears after PSG beat our favourite team, Liverpool FC, in an earlier UEFA Champions League round. I’d explained to them about Luis, his beautiful family, his home and the journey they’d been on. “We should cheer for him now through the rest of the competition,” I told them. We all cheered when they won — me in the stadium, the boys watching at home. There were more tears.

Authenticity is always everything. Win, lose or draw. Being true to yourself, even when you lose everything, makes you a winner whatever happens.

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Icons Features in HPP Business Podcast on Global Success

High Performance Podcast
May 30, 2025
From Our CEO

We’re pleased to share that our CEO, Dan Jamieson, recently attended a special panel recording of the High Performance Podcast, focused on the theme of successful exporting in business.

Dan was personally invited to the session, following Icons’ participation in a High Performance Away Day — an experience where our team worked directly with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes to sharpen our team dynamics, refine our business strategy, and push ourselves to be the very best. It was a powerful experience that helped shape our culture and vision, and continues to inspire us to build a truly iconic place to work.

Held before an invited audience, the episode features a lively and insightful discussion on the challenges and opportunities of expanding brands into international markets. Representing Icons, Dan posed a question to the panel at around 34:50 🎧 Listen to the full episode here:

Spotify – HPP Exporting Business Special

As Dan mentioned during the session, Icons.com exports to over 110 countries worldwide — a testament to our global reach and appeal. Icons is now a registered US business, with a dedicated team, warehouse, and operating facility in place, and a dedicated US website launching soon. It’s a major step forward in expanding our global presence and improving service to our customers across North America.

2026 is set to be a landmark year for Icons.com, as we head into the FIFA World Cup as the exclusive licensee for signed memorabilia, delivering the world’s largest collection of autographed items from football’s biggest names.

With over 1.4 million followers across our brands, we’re proud to be the most followed memorabilia company on the planet.

Thanks to the High Performance Podcast for having us on. We’re always proud to be part of the conversation around building bold, export-ready brands, and getting our deserved recognition on platforms like this helps reinforce Icons’ growing profile as the world’s leading football memorabilia company.

Shop The World’s Best at www.icons.com


Free £50 Gift Card With Every Purchase of a Classic Or Hero Framed Shirt!

December 31, 2024
Discounts and Sales

The Icons.com Winter Sale is underway and full of amazing offers to bring you closer to the world’s best! Not only are we offering 20% off all official UEFA EURO 2024 memorabilia, 20% off all official Manchester City items, 20% off selected dual framed shirts and up to 60% off tennis memorabilia, we are now also offering a free £50 Gift Card with every purchase of a Classic or Hero Framed shirt!

This amazing offer is only available until January 31st at 11.59pm GMT so be quick and make your purchase of a Classic or Hero Framed shirt today. See below for further details and the full terms and conditions…

Terms and Conditions

1. Redemption

The Free £50 Gift Card Promotion applies to all orders which contain a purchase of a signed shirt in an Icons.com-branded Classic Frame or Hero Frame bought directly from Icons.com. Details of how to redeem your free £50 Gift Card will be sent to the email address associated to your order 7 working days after the date of purchase. This offer will be available to all customers who make an eligible purchase from December 24th 2024 until January 31st 2025. No codes are necessary to be eligible for the Free £50 Gift Card Promotion. The value of the free £50 Gift Card will be £50. Only one free £50 Gift Card will be redeemed per eligible order, regardless of the number of eligible items included in the order.

2. Limitations

Purchases of signed shirts in an official UEFA Champions League Hero Frame, official FIFA World Cup Hero Frame, official Ballon d’Or Hero Frame or any other officially-licensed Hero Framing are not eligible for this promotion. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the Free £50 Gift Card Promotion is valid from December 24th 2024 until January 31st 2025. This offer is valid whilst stocks last and is subject to availability. Should any items from your order be returned, meaning the aforementioned thresholds are no longer met, you will not be entitled to a free £50 Gift Card. 

3. Risk of Loss

Please note the email address you enter at checkout is the email address which will be used to arrange delivery of your £50 Gift Card. No subsequent amendments can be made to the email address after you have checked out. We are not responsible for any Gift Cards sent to an email address which has been incorrectly entered. As stated in our Gift Card Terms and Conditions, the risk of loss for Gift Cards is passed to the purchaser upon our electronic transmission of the Gift Card to the purchaser or designated recipient. We are not responsible if any Gift Card is lost or used without your permission.

4. Fraud

We will have the right to close customer accounts and take payment from alternative forms of payment if a fraudulently obtained Gift Card is redeemed and/or used to make purchases on Icons.com.

5. Returns & Refunds

If any item(s) purchased as part of this promotion is/are returned after the £50 Gift Card is issued but within the Icons.com returns period and such return(s) mean(s) that the total order value no longer meets the aforementioned eligibility thresholds, we may terminate the Gift Card and deduct any amounts that have already been redeemed using the Gift Card from the refund amount owed to you (if applicable). An Icons.com Gift Card will be returned, refunded, or redeemed for cash at the discretion of Icons Shop Limited, except in instances as required by law.

6. General Terms

The existing Icons.com Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Returns Policy on purchases from Icons.com apply. The existing terms and conditions for the redemption and use of an Icons.com Gift Card, which can be found here, apply as normal. We reserve the right to require additional verification of your identity, or account ownership, or provision of an additional payment instrument, before completing your purchase. We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time at our discretion. All terms and conditions are applicable to the extent permitted by law.


Introducing the Icons.com Gift Card!

December 12, 2024
Announcements

Give the gift of the world’s best with the all-new Icons.com Gift Card. Simply choose from amounts of £50, £100, £200, £300 or £500, then enter your recipient’s details to send your gift card via email.

Please note: This is an electronic gift card and currently not available as a physical gift card.

Terms and Conditions

1. Redemption

An Icons.com Gift Card (SKU: ICGC) may only be redeemed toward the purchase of eligible products on www.icons.com. Purchases are deducted from the redeemer’s Gift Card balance. If a purchase exceeds the redeemer’s Gift Card balance, the remaining amount must be paid with another payment method. No fees apply to Gift Cards.

2. Validity

Each online purchase of a Gift Card is limited to a maximum value of £500. The minimum value for a Gift Card is £50. At the expiry of the validity period, a Gift Card cannot be used for purchase, reactivated nor can the unused remaining value be refunded. A Gift Card can be used until the balance of the card is zero.

3. Limitations

Gift Cards, including any unused Gift Card balances, expire one year from the date of issuance. Gift Cards may not be redeemed for the purchase of products on any other website owned and operated by us, our affiliates, or any other person or entity, except as indicated by these terms and conditions. Gift Cards cannot be used to purchase other gift cards. Gift Cards cannot be redeemed against shipping costs. Carrier charges will still apply. Gift Cards cannot be reloaded, resold, transferred for value, used for unauthorised commercial purposes, including to facilitate the resale or shipment of goods from Icons.com, redeemed for cash, or used in a manner otherwise prohibited by our terms and conditions.

4. Risk of Loss

The risk of loss for Gift Cards is passed to the purchaser upon our electronic transmission of the Gift Card to the purchaser or designated recipient. We are not responsible if any Gift Card is lost or used without your permission.

5. Fraud

We will have the right to close customer accounts and take payment from alternative forms of payment if a fraudulently obtained Gift Card is redeemed and/or used to make purchases on Icons.com.

6. Refunds

An Icons.com Gift Card will be returned, refunded, or redeemed for cash at the discretion of Icons Shop Limited, except in instances as required by law.

7. General Terms

The existing Icons.com Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Returns Policy on purchases from Icons.com apply. Gift Cards are issued by Icons Shop Limited. We reserve the right to require additional verification of your identity, Gift Card or account ownership, or provision of an additional payment instrument, before you are able to apply a Gift Card to your purchase. We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time at our discretion. All terms and conditions are applicable to the extent permitted by law.


Eight Reasons We Loved The Career of Don Andrés

October 8, 2024
Why We Love

Legendary former FC Barcelona and Spain midfielder Andrés Iniesta today officially announced his retirement from football. We first signed with Andrés well over a decade ago and have always thoroughly enjoyed working with him, indeed every bit as much as his balletic football.

Counting down eight reasons why we loved the career Don Andrés led for club and country, all of us at Icons.com would like thank him for the memories as we hope to see him soon for another signing session.

To celebrate the great career of the great man, we are offering 10% OFF all items in our Andrés Iniesta collection – simply use the code ‘INIESTA8’ at the checkout on eligible items.

1. UEFA EURO 2012 Best Player of the Tournament

Fresh from winning the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Spain entered UEFA EURO 2012 as defending champions and heavy favourites. Even so, the Roja side of 2012 sparkled with Andrés Iniesta as its muse.

Andrés was extraordinary in Poland and Ukraine, winning the UEFA EURO 2012 Best Player of the Tournament, awarded by the UEFA Technical Team – a testament to his overall contribution given he did not score and registered just one assist.

“In many ways, he symbolised the tournament – the creative, incisive runner, with and without the ball. We felt that he epitomised a lot of what we saw,” said UEFA technical director Andy Roxburgh.

2. Camp Nou farewell

Though it was a deeply affecting and an ultimately sad moment for fans of the man and his club, the image of Andrés Iniesta soaking in his last appearance for FC Barcelona at Camp Nou, alone in the middle of a pitch he had made his own, speaks to his passion for Barça.

When respect and admiration goes both ways, from player to fans and fans to player, that’s when you get a true club legend.

3. Bernabéu ovation

You have to be a special player to get a standing ovation from opposing fans. In this case, the opposing fans weren’t just any opposing fans. In November of 2015, with 15 minutes left of a brutal 4-0 Clásico defeat, it was Madridistas of all people showing their appreciation for Iniesta with a standing ovation.

It was a moment to remember for Don Andrés and symbolic of a player who was able to transcend football rivalry.

4. Partnership with Xavi

Lennon and McCartney. Batman and Robin. Tom and Jerry. Not all duos are created equal. Forming a midfield partnership that produced mountains of trophies, countless awards and too many goals and assists to count, the partnership of Andrés Iniesta and Xavi will go down as the best of a magnificent era and quite possibly the greatest ever.

5. Uncontainable

A picture paints a thousand words. This photo, taken by Ullstein Bild, sums it up. The respect from world class opposition. The art of it, the audacity, the absurdity. It’s all there. Wonderful.

6. Maestro of the “Greatest Team Ever”

The 2010-11 campaign for FC Barcelona will not soon be repeated – if indeed it ever can be. Sir Alex Ferguson described that team as the greatest he’d ever faced. He had every right to say so and every humility to, in the aftermath of Barça’s crowning achievement that season, a 3-1 demolition of Manchester United at Wembley Stadium in the UEFA Champions League final.

No one game could truly define the majesty of that team and that season and, of course, Andrés Iniesta was at the very heart of its success with nine goals and 15 assists in an eye-watering 50 appearances.

7. The ‘Iniestazo‘

This would be THE goal of Andrés Iniesta’s storied career if he hadn’t, well, we’ll get to that. The ‘Iniestazo’ goal will be forever remembered by Blaugrana the world over not only as one of the most dramatic goals in a golden generation for the club but also as the goal that set up an iconic UEFA Champions League triumph.

It’s one of those goals you watch time and again if you’re a Barça fan. And not just that, it’s a damn good goal of a highly technical nature as Iniesta, in the dying embers of their epic semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge, lets a pass from Lionel Messi drag across his body before whipping the ball in to the roof of the Chelsea net.

8. 2010 FIFA World Cup Final winner

Time stood still during this iconic Andrés Iniesta moment, surely the highlight of a remarkable career. Spain had never been world champions and were searching for the breakthrough of a tense FIFA World Cup final in Johannesburg.

They needed a moment of magic. Good thing they had Iniesta, a FIFA World Cup winner in more than one sense.