venerdì 29 luglio 2016

Panini Fifa 365 2015/2016 - Hardcover Album


Following the loss of the Champions League rights, Panini decided to launch a superb collection with the name FIFA 365 that includes 26 of the most famous football clubs around the world.
These are the 26 clubs included:

Argentina: BOCA JUNIORS, RIVER PLATE
Belgium: ANDERLECHT
Brasil: CORINTHIANS, FLAMENGO
Chile: COLO-COLO
China: BEIJING GUOAN
Egypt: AL AHLY
England: MANCHESTER UTD
España: BARCELONA, REAL MADRID
France: MARSEILLE, PSG
Germany: BAYERN, BORUSSIA DORTMUND
Greece: OLYMPIAKOS
Italy: JUVENTUS, MILAN
Mexico: AMERICA
Nederland: AJAX
New Zealand: AUCKLAND CITY
Portugal: PORTO
Russia: ZENIT
Turkey: GALATASARAY
Uruguay: NACIONAL, PEÑAROL

The collection has been released around the world with the same 26 standard clubs, but some countries have extra teams. The list of all extra teams that can be found in the respective countries is the following: 

Bulgaria - Levski Sofia
Chile - Universidad de Chile
Costa Rica - Alajuelense and Saprissa
Czech Republic Victoria Plzen
Slovakia - Slovan Bratislava
France - Olympique Lyonnais
Germany/Austria - Schalke 04
Greece - Panathinaikos
Italy - Internazionale, Lazio and Roma
Romania - Steaua Bucarest
Russia - Cska Moskva and Spartak Moskva
Serbia - FK Partizan
Slovenia - NK Maribor
Spain/Portugal - Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Sporting
Switzerland - Basel
Turkey - Fenerbahce

Stickers of this collection are big size and many stickers are double numbered as they are composed by two half stickers (including the ones of player portraits). Therefore the album is numbered from 1 to 856, but it actually includes 472 big size stickers. 
The albums begins with some sections about the FIFA competitions, including the Club World Cup 2014, the Under 20 World Cup New Zealand 2015, and the Women's World Cup Canada 2015






Then the football clubs are presented in alphabetical order of the countries, starting with Argentina until Uruguay. The first club is then Boca Jrs from Buenos Aires. Each club is displaced over two pages with 16 stickers: the club badge (gold sticker), the team photo (two stickers), six mini stickers of players in action (total of two stickers), the star player (gold sticker), and 20 player portraits (total of 10 stickers)














The album closes with the FIFA World Ranking and six stickers of the top 10: Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, Brazil, and England.


 the back cover of the album

A special hardcover edition of the album was released in Brazil


Album details
Full name: FIFA 365
Publisher: Panini
Season: 2015/2016
Hardcover: Yes (Brazil)
Number of teams: 26 (Standard edition)
Stickers per team: 16
Special sections: 
-The Golden World of Football (10 stickers)
-FIFA Club World Cup (14 stickers)
-FIFA U-20 World Cup 2015 (14 stickers)
-FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 (12 stickers)
-FIFA World Ranking (6 stickers)

Total number of stickers: 472


venerdì 22 luglio 2016

List of collections

In this post you can find links to all the reviewed albums in this blog.

North/South America (Clubs)

Argentina
Panini Clausura 2005
Panini Apertura 2005
Panini Apertura 2006
Panini Clausura 2007
Panini Apertura 2008
Panini Futbol Argentino 2013-2014
Panini Futbol Argentino 2014
Panini Sao Paulo historico
Panini A Historia do Futebol Baiano
Imprima Fortaleza - 100 anos