James Rodríguez's museum

Posted Monday, July 28, 2014 by Marca.com

James Rodriguez is the owner of the Top-10 artificial turf football pitches which his aunt Patricia is now looking after in the old town of Ibagué in Colombia. The whole place is a veritable museum with a huge number of football shirts on display.

It is a collection of memories, stories and the greatest moments in Rodriguez's footballing career so far.

Pride of place goes to a shirt once owned by Cristiano Ronaldo, which Rodríguez's idol presented to him. From now on they'll be playing alongside each other. There is also a shirt from Isco, from that Champions League round of 16 game when Málaga played Porto, and there are also souvenirs from the World Cup such as Yaya Touré's shirt from the Colombia - Ivory Coast match.

Also present are shirts from other teammates like Jackson Martínez, Cuadrado, Arias, Pereira and Radamel Falcao himself.

But the real gem of the collection is a shirt he got when he swapped with David Luiz following the quarter final of the World Cup between Colombia and Brazil in which Colombia were knocked out.

It was the shirt he used to dry his tears at the moment when the defender paid homage to him before the whole Brazilian crowd as the best in the World Cup.