Only Good Stickers: Panini Fussball 2004 (Germany)

venerdì 12 maggio 2023

Panini Fussball 2004 (Germany)

Fussball Bundesliga 2004 is the official sticker collection of the Bundesliga produced by Panini for the 2003/2004 season. Panini, however, did not have the rights to include symbols and shirts of Borussia Dortmund. Therefore, the player stickers of this club have a plain white t-shirt and the team, logo, and stadium stickers were not included.

The album begins with three introductory stickers celebrating the highlights of the previous season: the Bundesliga winners (Bayern Munchen) and the top goalscorer (Christiansen and Elber with 21 goals). The Bundesliga clubs are then shown in alphabetical order with a total of 27 stickers: the shiny club badge, the stadium, the team photo (two stickers), five players in action (shiny stickers), and 18 player portraits. For the reasons explained above, Borussia Dortmund has only 20 stickers. To compensate, right after the Borussia Dortmund pages there is a special section ("Be a champ 2006") with seven stickers of young players in action.

After resuming with the Bundesliga clubs, at the end of the album there are still some extra sections. The main is dedicated to the DFB-Pokal 2002/2003 (German Cup) won by Bayern Munchen. Here we find four stickers. In the last two pages there are still five miscellaneous stickers. In the 2003/2004 Bundesliga, Werder Bremen dominated with 74 points; second place for Bayern Munchen (68 points). Ailton (Werder Bremen) was the top scorer of the tournament with 28 goals.