Only Good Stickers: febbraio 2013

sabato 9 febbraio 2013

Topps Bundesliga 2012

Fussball Bundesliga 2010/2011 is the official sticker collection of the Bundesliga produced by Topps. The album begins with an introductory page including two stickers (Bundesliga logo and trophy) and it continues with a section including all of the kits of the 18 competing clubs. Stickers of this section include both the home and away kit.

The Bundesliga clubs are shown in alphabetical order with a total of 21 stickers per club: the shiny badge, the team photo (large sticker), the star player (large sticker), and 18 player stickers. In the center of the album there is a section (with one sticker) dedicated to the Bundesliga winners 2010/2011 (Borussia Dortmund). In the last part of the album there is a section with the Bundesliga legends, with one legend sticker per club. Here we find players like Bernd Schneider, Andreas Kopke, Joachim Low, Lothar Matthaus. The last sticker of this collection is dedicated to the Bundesliga broadcaster Sky.

In the following, we present an empty album with the complete set of loose stickers.

"Legends" stickers: Lothar Matthaus and Joachim Low

Borussia Dortmund top players: Gundogan and Lewandowski

Bayern Munchen International stars: Robben and Ribery

Album details:

Full name: Fussball Bundesliga 2011/2012

Publisher: Topps

League: German Bundesliga

Season: 2011/2012

Number of clubs: 18

Stickers per club: 21

Other sections:

Introduction (2 stickers)
Trikots (18 stickers)
Deutsch Meister 2010/2011 (1 sticker)
Legends (18 stickers)
Sky (1 sticker)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 418

Topps Bundesliga 2011

This album produced by Topps is dedicated to the German Bundesliga. The collection features also big stickers (one per package) for logos, teams and special players. In the introductory page of the album there are 3 stickers: the Bundesliga logo, the Meister and the official ball of the competition. Beore the Bundesliga clubs, there is a page with one sticker dedicated to the Bundesliga broadcaster (Sky).

Then the Bundesliga clubs are shown in alphabetical order. Each team is distributed over four pages with a total of 21 stickers: on the first page we have the logo, the team photo and the star player. There are in total 18 player stickers per team, each including the signature of the player.

Special sections of this album are the team kits (18 big stickers), the rookies (one player per each Bundesliga team), and 5 stickers "Tricks with Diego", which shows football tricks of the Brazilian Wolfsburg midfielder Diego.

In the following, we present an empty album with the complete loose set of stickers.

Borussia Dortmund

The kits

Tricks with Diego

Rookies

Bayern Munchen strikers: Miroslav Klose and Mario Gomez

Borussia Dortmund stars: Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski

Album Details
Full name: Fussball Bundesliga 2010/2011
Publisher: Topps

League: German Bundesliga
Season: 2010/2011
Number of clubs: 18
Stickers per club: 21

Other sections:

Introduction (4 stickers)
Alle trikots - Kits (18 stickers)
Tricks mit Diego (5 stickers)
Rookies (18 stickers)

Updates: No

Poster: No

Hardcover album: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 423

venerdì 8 febbraio 2013

Calciatori Panini 2011-2012

Calciatori 2011/2012 is the 50th chapter of the series that started in 1961-1962 with the first Panini album dedicated to the Italian football. All the leagues are included from the main division (Serie A) to the amateur league, with a section also for the Women's Serie A.

First, the clubs of Serie A are shown in alphabetical order with 24 stickers displaced on two pages: the club badge (shiny sticker), the team photo (2 stickers), the coach and 20 players. In addition, there is space for six update player stickers per team. These stickers are included in the "Calciomercato" update set released in the spring 2012.

The section "Film del campionato" shows the best moments of the Serie A 2011/12 with 16 stickers that were released during the season in two special packets to be found in the newspapers (Tuttosport and Corriere dello Sport)

Serie B clubs are displaced on one page with the club badge (half shiny sticker), the team photo, and six stickers of players (three players per sticker).

The Lega Pro is divided in two divisions, being the third and fourth level of the Italian professional football. For the 36 clubs of Division 1 there are the stickers of the badge (four badges on one sticker) and the team photo (half sticker), whereas for Division 2 only the small club badge sticker. The Serie D, which is the amateur league, is also included with the list of participating team, but only three small stickers about the logo of the championship and the federation. Women's football has a section with the clubs of Serie A. Here there are the team photo stickers of the 14 competing clubs.

In the last part of the album there are some special sections. First, La squadra degli arbitri (the referee team) shows with 18 stickers the referees of the championship. Then Calciatori Plus features 16 stickers with some of the most remarkable Serie A players and Calciatori Show concludes the album with 20 stickers of actions taken from the games of the 2011/12 Serie A.