Hi-- I am new to this board so let me introduce myself. I have been collecting autographs of World Cup soccer players for over 10 years now. I have probably over 2000 autographs of different players from Lucien Laurent (who scored the first World Cup goal in 1930) to Marco Materazzi (who scored the last World Cup goal).

Recently I found out that there is going to be a big set of training sessions but many top clubs in Austria. I am wondering if anyone has had any successes by writing to players at the team hotels of the training sessions. I just wrote a bunch of letters to the Arsenal and West Ham team hotels, and I am planning on sending a few letters to the Real Madrid team hotel as well.

Thanks!

Eli