giovedì 21 dicembre 2023

Panini Football 2004 (Belgium)

 

Football 2004 is the sticker album number 32 of the Belgian series started with the season 1972/73. As stated on the cover, this album includes both the First and Second Division and it celebrates "more than 30 years of football" in Belgium, with two special sections inside the album.

The album begins with a foreword page followed by three pages showing the Panini Football covers from 1972/73 to 2003, with a total of 31 stickers. After a page with the fixtures of the season, the 18 clubs of the First Division are shown in alphabetical order. For each club there are 22 stickers displaced over three pages: the shiny club badge, the team photo composed by two stickers, the coach, and 18 player portrait stickers. Player careers are printed on the album below each player sticker.

Right after the First Division, the album features two special sections. The first one is dedicated to five legendary coaches in Belgium (Happel, Goethals, Ivic, de Mos, Antheunis) and the latter to the stars of Belgian football taken from the Panini Football albums since 1972/73. Among those 30 stickers we find Ceulemans, Preud'homme, Scifo, Pfaff, and Wilmots.

The album ends with the Second Divsion, feauturing the 18 competing clubs with three stickers: the shiny club badge and the team photo (two stickers).

In the 2003/2004 season, Anderlecht won the First Division title and Luigi Pieroni (Mouscron) was the top goalscorer of the tournament with 28 goals. Cub Brugge won the Belgian Cup defeating Beveren in the final (4-2). Football 2004 includes some big names like Vincent Kompany and Yaya Touré.




























Back cover of the album

Rising stars in 2004: Kompany and Touré

International players from the Belgian league 2003/2004: Wilhelmsson (79 caps and 9 goals for Sweden) and Riise (35 caps and 1 goal for Norway)

Album details
Full name: Football 2004
Publisher: Panini
League: Belgian (First Division and Second Division)
Season: 2003/2004
Number of clubs and stickers per club:
  • First Division (18 clubs, 22 stickers)
  • Second Division (18 clubs, 3 stickers)
Other sections:
  • 30 years of Belgian football (31 stickers)
  • 5 trainers (5 stickers)
  • Stars of Belgian football (30 stickers)
Updates: No
Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 516

















venerdì 8 dicembre 2023

Panini FPC 2009 (Colombia)


FPC 09 is the official sticker album of the Colombian football for the 2009 season. It includes the clubs of the leagues Primera A and Primera B. The album begins with an introductory page and the shiny stickers of the DIMAYOR logo and the official ball of the competition. In the following pages, the table of contents and the fixtures introduce the Primera A tournament, which was divided in Apertura (won by Once Caldas) and Finalizacion (won by Independiente Medellin).

The 18 clubs of Primera A are shown in alphabetical order. For each club there are 14 regular stickers: the shiny badge, the team photo, and 12 players. In addition, there is space for four update stickers. Those stickers were released in packets during the second part of the season.

The album continues with four pages dedicated to the stars of the Primera A. This section features 36 stickers of players in action. Among them, the stickers of Juan Cuadrado and Teofilo Gutierrez.

The last part of the album shows the 18 clubs of Primera B, with the team photo sticker of each club. In the following, we present the complete album with the update section partially completed.

























The last page explaining the update stickers

Back cover of the album

Colombian strikers: Jackson Martinez was the top scorer of the 2009 Finalizacion tournament, whereas the young Victor Ibarbo (19 years old), played later on in Italy for Cagliari and Roma

Juan Cuadrado (21 years old) regular and action stickers. He moved to Udinese at the end of the season. He played in Italy also for Fiorentina, Juventus and Inter. He has more than 100 caps with Colombia.

Album details:
Full name: Futbol Profesional Colombiano - FPC 09
Publisher: Panini
League: Colombian (Primera A and Primera B)
Season: 2009
Number of clubs and stickers per club:
  • Primera A (18 clubs, 14 stickers)
  • Primera B (18 clubs, 1 sticker)
Other sections:
  • Introduction (2 stickers)
  • Estrellas en accion (36 stickers)
Extra: Update stickers (A1 - A72)

Total number of stickers: 308 (+ 72 update stickers)