Only Good Stickers: Panini Fussball 85 (Germany)

mercoledì 15 febbraio 2023

Panini Fussball 85 (Germany)

Fussball 85 is the Panini sticker collection of the German football for the season 1984/1985, when Bayern Munchen won the Bundesliga title and Klaus Allofs (Koln) was the top goal scorer with 26 goals. The collection includes all the clubs of the Bundesliga and the second league (Zweite Liga), a large section dedicated to Franz Beckenbauer, and a poster with the badge stickers of the Bundesliga clubs.

The album opens with the fixtures of the season and a foreword signed by Beckenbauer. There are no stickers in this introductory pages. The Bundesliga clubs are then shown in alphabetical order with 18 stickers per club: the team photo composed by two stickers and 16 players. After the Bundesliga clubs there are two special sections. The first one includes caricatures of the best German players in action, with a total of 19 stickers over two pages. The second one is totally dedicated to Franz Beckenbauer with 17 stickers of his best moments with the national team. The album ends with the second league section, including three stickers for each of the 20 competing clubs: the team photo (two stickers) and the club badge.

As said, the Bundesliga club badges are not included in the album, but they are collected in a separate poster with the map of Germany and the club location on the map.