Panini Calciatori 1978-79

 

Calciatori 1978-79 is the Panini sticker collection of the Italian football, including all the professional leagues, from Serie A to Serie C2. The album starts with the clubs of Serie A in alphabetical order, with 18 stickers for each club: the club badge (fabric sticker), the team photo, and 16 players. Club pages include also player details and careers.

In the center of the album there are four pages about football fans in Italy. Here there are in total 24 stickers to complete photos of the fans in the stadiums and an artistic drawing realized by the Italian cartoonist Prosdocimi.

After resuming with the Serie A clubs, the album continues with the Serie B section, with 7 stickers for each club: the club badge (fabric sticker), the team photo, and five stickers of players (three players per sticker). At the bottom of the Serie B pages there are stickers of the most famous retired Serie A players. There are in total 59 stickers of black and white portraits, with players like Altafini, Facchetti, Haller, Mazzola, Trapattoni.

The last part of the album covers the Serie C1 and C2. For the 36 clubs of Serie C1 divided in two groups, the collection features the team photo sticker and the club badge (one sticker includes three club badges). For the 72 clubs of Serie C2, divided in four groups, only the club badge sticker is included, which is also just one third of a regular sticker.

AC Milan won the Serie A title in the season 1978/1979 and the top scorer was Bruno Giordano (Lazio) with 19 goals. 

Back cover of the album

The successful managers Ranieri and Capello were Serie A players in the season 1978/1979

The album features spectacular fabric stickers for the club badges

Serie A strikers: Alessandro Altobelli and Paolo Rossi

Young Italian players: Marco Tardelli and Franco Baresi

The stickers of Facchetti and Mazzola from the section dedicated to the retired players

In the Serie B section there are some remarkable football managers of the future: Marcello Lippi (who won the Champions League with Juventus and the World Cup with Italy) and Luigi del Neri  (future manager of Chievo and Juventus)

Album details:

Full name: Calciatori 1978-79

Publisher: Panini

League: Italian (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C1, Serie C2)

Season: 1978/1979

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

• Serie A (16 clubs, 18 stickers)
• Serie B (20 clubs, 7 stickers)
• Serie C1 (36 clubs, 1+1/3 stickers)
• Serie C2 (72 clubs, 1/3 sticker)

Other sections:

• Fans (24 stickers)
• Hanno attaccato le scarpe al chiodo - Retired players (59 stickers)

Updates: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 583