Panini Futebol 2012-2013

Coleçao Oficial de Cromos - Liga Zon Sagres 2012-13

The Portuguese season 2012-13 has been very exciting and incredible: Benfica dominated the most of it, but they lost all the advantage with Porto in the last three games. The second last match (Porto-Benfica) was decisive, with Porto prevailing with a gol of Kelvin in the extra time. It was a big disappointment for Benfica, which lost also the Europa League Final (against Chelsea) and the Portugal Cup Final (against Vitoria Guimaraes) in the last minutes.

The official collection of the Portuguese Premier League 2013 (Liga Zon Sagres) by Panini is a rich collection including all the competing teams, updates, last transfers and Europeran football stars. The football teams are showed in alphabetical order and placed on two pages. The 16 teams included are: Academica, Beira Mar, Benfica, Braga, Estoril, Gil Vicente, Maritimo, Moreirense, Nacional, Olhanense, Paços Ferreira, Porto, Rio Ave, Sporting, Vitoria Guimaraes, Vitoria Setubal.

For each team there are 20 stickers: 1x team squad, 1x team badge (silver foil) and 18x player portraits.

The Special characteristic of this album is the presence of double stickers ("Cromos Bis") to substitute players that have been transferred away. These stickers can be placed on top of the substituted sticker, glueing only the top part of the sticker so that it is possible to lift it and still see the sticker below (as shown in the pictures of the Benfica team). In this way the album includes also football stars that were transferred away at the beginning of the season, like Aimar, Witsel, Saviola (for Benfica) and Hulk (for Porto). Among the young rising stars we can mention the Colombian James Rodriguez (Porto), who moved to Monaco at the end of the season.

The portoguese champions: Porto

At the end of the album we find three special sections: "Top Stars", "Euro Craques" and "Ultimas Acquisiçoes".

Top Stars includes 16 stickers of some of the best League players in action. We find three players for Porto (Rolando, Moutinho, Varela), Sporting Lisboa (Adrien, Martins, Rui Patricio) and Benfica (Luisinho, Miguel Vitor, Carlos Martins).

Euro Craques shows some of the best European Stars in the season that leads to the European Championship (Poland-Ukraine 2012). There are 32 stickers distributed on 4 pages. These are special stickers, with player name and figure on elevation and shining background. For Portugal we find Bruno Alves, Moutinho, Coentrao, Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul Meireles and Pepe.

"Ultimas Acquisiçoes" is the last section of the album and it includes players that were acquired by the teams after the beginning of the season (and the production of the album). There are 36 stickers distributed on 4 pages. Together with the "Cromos Bis" these stickers were introduced in the sticker packets later on during the season. We find 2 players for Benfica (Enzo Perez and Lima), 4 players for Porto (Miguel Lopes, Quinonez, Castro and Kelvin) and 2 players for Sporting (Labyad and Pranjic)

There are 22 "Cromos Bis":

13-Cleyton(Acad)

50-Matic(Benfica)

51-Bruno Cesár(Benfica)

55-Gaitan(Benfica)

59-Kardec(Benfica)

77-Paulo cesár(Braga)

78-Yzalade(Braga)

108-Luciano Amaral(G.Vicente)

112-Tiero(Gil Vicente)

126-Roberge(Martitimo)

133-Rodrigo António (Maritimo)

165-Miguel Rodrigues(Nacional)

179-Keita(Nacional)

198-Yontcha(Olhanense)

237-Iturbe(Porto)

250-Diego Lopes(Rio Ave)

266-Xandão(Sporting)

273-Pereirinha(Sporting)

275-Ismailov(Sporting)

289-Addy(V.Guimarães)

300-Delac(V.Guimarães)

317-Pedro Santos(V.Setúbal)

and 36 "Ultimas Acquisiçoes":

369 Rodrigo Galo, Académica
370 Saná, Académica
371 Wilson Eduardo, Académica
372 Bruno Jorge, Beira-Mar
373 Enzo Pérez, Benfica
374 Lima, Benfica
375 Ismaily, Braga
376 Haas, Braga
377 Michel, Braga
378 Carlitos, Estoril
379 Evandro, Estoril
380 Djalma, Gil Vicente
381 Márcio Rosário, Marítimo
382 David Simão, Marítimo
383 Vinicius, Moreirense
384 Pablo Oliveira, Moreirense
385 Manuel da Costa, Nacional
386 Emiliano Garcia, Nacional
387 Bruno Moreira, Nacional
388 Nuno Reis, Olhanense
389 Rui Sampaio, Olhanense
390 Djaniny, Olhanense
391 Paulo Loureiro, P. Ferreira
392 Miguel Lopes, Porto
393 Quiñónez, Porto
394 Castro, Porto
395 Kelvin, Porto
396 Edimar, Rio Ave
397 Lionn, Rio Ave
398 Del Valle, Rio Ave
399 Labyad, Sporting
400 Pranjic, Sporting
401 Marco Matias, V.Guimarães
402 Baldé, V. Guimarães
403 Miguel Lourenço, V.Setúbal
404 Cristiano, V. Setúbal

Album Details

Full Name: Panini Futebol 2012-13
Publisher: Panini
League: Portuguese League
Number of teams: 16
Stickers per team: 18
Special Sections: - Top Stars (16 stickers)
                            - Euro Craques (32 stickers)
                            - Ultimas Acquisiçoes (36 stickers)
Extra Stickers: - Cromos Bis (22 stickers)

Total number of stickers: 394

Remarkable players included:
Witsel, Aimar, Cardozo, Saviola (Benfica), Hugo Viana (Braga), Moutinho, Lucho, Defour, Varela, Fernando, Hulk (Porto), Rui Patricio, Boulahrouz, Schaars, Capel, van Wolfswinkel (Sporting), Soudani (Vitoria Guimaraes)

Young Stars included:
Ola John, Rodrigo (Benfica), Danilo, Alex Sandro, James Rodriguez, Atsu, Iturbe, Kelvin, Quinonez (Porto), Felipe Augusto (Rio Ave),Viola, Carrillo, Labyad (Sporting), Lalkovic, Ricardo, Baldé (Guimaraes)