Only Good Stickers: Panini Calciatori 2003

martedì 1 dicembre 2020

Panini Calciatori 2003

Calciatori 2002/2003 is the official sticker collection of the Italian football for the season 2002/2003. It was a tremendous season for the Italian football, with three clubs reaching the Champions League semifinals (Milan, Inter, Juventus) and Milan winning the cup. In Serie A, Juventus won the title and Christian Vieri (Inter) was the top scorer with 24 goals.

The Calciatori album has a simple layout presenting the different Italian leagues one after the other (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C1, Serie C2, Women league). The album does not include other special sections (except for the extra stickers Football Avengers), but there is an update set with 94 new player stickers. First, the Serie A clubs are shown in alphabetical order with 25 stickers per club: the metallic badge, the team photo (two stickers), the coach, the team formation, and 20 players. In the last club page there is space for up to four update stickers.

Serie B clubs have 7 stickers of players (two players per sticker), one team photo sticker and the club badge (half metallic sticker). The 36 clubs of Serie C1 are divided in two groups and they have the metallic badge (half sticker) and the team photo sticker, whereas the 54 clubs of Serie C2 (three groups) have only the metallic badge sticker (half size sticker). The last section of the album is about the Women's Serie A, with the fixture of the season and the presentation of the 14 competing clubs. For each club, the metallic badge sticker and the team photo sticker are included.