Panini Futbol Profesional Colombiano (FPC) 2013

Futbol Profesional Colombiano 2013 is the official sticker album of the Colombian league. It is the 8th edition published by Panini since 2005. Compared to the 2012 edition, FPC 2013 includes less stickers (15 per team instead of 18) and in particular club badge stickers are not included anymore, but it has an interesting insert dedicated to the Colombian National Team, with 14 shining stickers of the best Colombian players that will participate to the next World Cup.

The 2013 season of Colombian Football started in January and ended on December 15, 2013. Atletico Nacional won both the Apertura and the Finalizacòn, defeating in the finals Santa Fé and Deportivo Calì, respectively. They celebrated the titles in their own stadium in Medellin winning 2-0 the final against Deportivo Calì on December 15. 

Teams included in the album are showed in alphabetical order: Alianza Petrolera, Deportivo Calì, Boyaca Chicò, Cùcuta, Envigado, Equidad, Huila, Itagùì, Junior, Medellin, Millionarios, Nacional, Once Caldas, Pasto, Patriotas, Quindìo, Santa Fé, and Tolima. Each team is placed on two pages and features 15 stickers: 1 team picture and 14 player portraits.

 Mondragòn (42 years old), historical goalkeeper of Colombia since 1993

The main feature of the album is the insert dedicated to the Colombian National Team (Seleccion Colombiana 2013). In the centre of the album there are two pages with 14 shining stickers of the best Colombian stars: Ospina (Nice), Zuniga (Napoli), Yepes (Atalanta), Armero (Napoli), Perea (Cruz Azul), Guarin (Inter), Cuadrado (Fiorentina), Torres (Riyadh), Valencia (Fluminense) Aguilar (Toulouse), James Rodriguez (Monaco), Carlos Bacca (Sevilla), Radamel Falcao (Monaco), Jackson Marinez (Porto).

Guarin (Inter) and Cuadrado (Fiorentina)

The FPC 2013 sticker of Radamel Falcao

A sealed packet of FPC 2013 Panini

Album Details

Full name: Futbol Profesional Colombiano 2013

Publisher: Panini

League: Colombia

Number of teams: 18

Stickers per team: 15

Special section: 14 stickers "Seleccion Colombiana 2013"

Total number of stickers: 284

Eredivisie Album 2009-2010 - AH

The official sticker collection of the Eredivisie season 2009/2010 was published by the local AH, for the second year in a row. The quality of the stickers has been improved significantly compared to the previous album: each player sticker includes a golden signature printed in relief. All 18 Eredivisie teams are showed in alphabetical order: ADO Den Haag, Ajax, AZ, Feyenoord, Groningen, Heerenveen, Heracles Almelo, NAC Breda, NEC, PSV, RKC Waalwijk, Roda JC, Sparta Rotterdam, Twente, Utrecht, Vitesse, VVV Venlo, and Willem II.
Each team is placed on 4 pages and has 15 stickers: 2x team squad, 1x club badge and 12x player portraits. The album has a particular shape, long and narrow, as it depicts the dressing rooms of each Eredivise club. Player stickers are placed on the corresponding seats, club badge on a towel and team photo on a frame.
As usual, in Eredivisie we find young talented players in the process of becoming international football stars. In this album of the  season 2009/2010 we can mention in particular Luis Suarez (Ajax, now at Liverpool), Ibrahim Afellay (PSV, ex Barcelona), Kevin Strootman (Sparta Rotterdam, now at Roma), Dries Mertens (Utrecht, now at Napoli), and Keisuke Honda (VVV, now at CSKA Moscow and about to sign for AC Milan). In this season Twente won its first title, with just one point more than Ajax; third place for PSV. Best scorer was indeed Luis Suarez with 35 goals!
In Ajax we can find the stickers of players that are now playing in international teams: Stekelenburg (Roma and Fulham), Van der Wiel (PSG), Verthonghen (Tottenham), Alderweireld (Atletico Madrid), Emanuelson (Milan), and Luis Suarez (Liverpool).

A young Luis Suarez playing for Ajax

AZ features the Finnish Moisander (now at Ajax), whereas Feyenoord a young Wijnaldum (now at PSV) and Leroy Fer (Norwich). AZ team includes a special sticker of the Eredivisie trophy 2009, as they are the title owner.

Afellay at PSV before his move to Barcelona

The "rookie" Kevin Strootman, now an appreciated midfielder of Roma

Twente became champion with the guide of the English coach Steve McLaren. The best players of the team were probably Bryan Ruiz (24 goals, second top scorer of the league) and the creative midfielder Theo Janssen.

Two raising talents in Utrecht: Dries Mertens (Napoli) and Ricky van Wolfswinkel (Norwich City) 

The club badge of Vitesse

The rookie sticker of the Japanese Honda (VVV Venlo)

At the end of the album there is a page with three extra stickers of remarkable players that could not find a place in the regular team. These three extra players were decided by a survey on the album website and they are Marko Pantelic (Ajax), Miroslav Stoch (Twente) and Darko Lazevic (PSV).

A sticker packet of the AH Eredivisie 2010 collection

Album details

Full name: Eredivisie Voetbalplaatjes Verzamelalbum 2009/2010

Publisher: AH

Competition: Eredivisie (Dutch Premier League)

Number of teams: 18

Stickers per team: 15 

Special sticker: 1 (Eredivisie 2009 trophy for title owner AZ)

Extra stickers: 3 update stickers

Total number of stickers: 274

Remarkable Players
Lex Immers (ADO), Stekelenburg, Van der Wiel, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Luis Suarez (Ajax), Ronald Koeman (AZ coach), Moisander (AZ), Ron Vlaar, Leroy Fer, Van Bronckhorst, Wijnaldum, Tomasson, De Guzman (Feyenoord), Assaidi (Heerenveen), Bas Dost (Heracles), Lasse Schone (NEC), Isaksson, Afellay, Dzsudzsak, Toivonen (PSV), Boerrigter (RKC), Kevin Strootman (Sparta Rotterdam), Douglas, Theo Janssen, Bryan Ruiz (Twente), Dries Mertens, Ricky van Wolfswinkel (Utrecht), Keisuke Honda (VVV Venlo)

Topps Major League Soccer 2013

Topps signed in 2013 a multi-year partnership with the Major League Soccer. The first product is a MLS card collection released in July 2013. The Major League Soccer is a growing competition in US that features many well-know European stars (Thierry Henry, Nesta, Di Vaio, Cahill, Robbie Keane, etc...) and interesting young prospects (Agudelo, Yedlin, Rosell, etc..). The regular season started in March and ended in July, with New York Red Bulls leader of the Eastern Conference and Portland Timbers of the Western Conference. The best 5 teams of each Conference played the MLS Cup, which decided the 2013 winner. The final of the Cup between Sporting Kansas and Real Salt Lake took place on December 7, 2013, in Kansas City. Sporting Kansas City won the Cup at penalties after equalizing the match 1-1 (Collin 76' / Saborio 52').

The base set of the Topps collection includes 200 cards of the 19 MLS teams. Cards show the player in action and for each team there are 10, 11 or 12 cards. In the following, we present the list of teams with the number of cards in brackets. 

Eastern Conference

Chicago Fire (11 cards), Columbus Crew (10), DC United (10), Houston Dynamo (11), Montreal Impact (10), New England Revolution (10), New York Red Bulls (10), Philadelphia Union (10), Sporting Kansas City (11), Toronto FC (11).

Chicago Fire, 6th place in the Eastern Conference

Houston Dynamo, lost the Conference final against Kansas

Impact Montreal features 4 italians: Di Vaio (20 goals), Nesta, Ferrari, and Pisanu

New York won the regular season, but was eliminated in Conference semifinals of the play-offs. They feature Juninho (ex Lyon), Thierry Henry (ex Arsenal, Barcelona) and Tim Cahill (ex Everton).

Sporting Kansas City, the MLS Cup Winner 2013!

Toronto features experienced players like Koevermans and Earnshaw

Western Conference

Club Deportivo Chivas (11 cards), Colorado Rapids (11), FC Dallas (11), Los Angeles Galaxy (12), Portland Timbers (10), Real Salt Lake (10), San José Earthquakes (11), Seattle Sounders (10), Vancouver Whitecaps (10).

Chivas features the young prospect Agudelo, but they got the last place in the regular season.

Colorado Rapids were eliminated in the first raound of the play-offs

FC Dallas with the young Colombian prospect Fabian Castillo 

Los Angeles Galaxy features the goalkeeper Cudicini (ex Chelsea), the young american Jose Villarreal (1993), Donovan and Robbie Keane. They got the third place in the Conference season, but were out in the play-off semifinals.

Portland's star Silvestre (ex Inter and Manchester United). Portland Timbers in the same way as New York won the regualar season but they were kicked out in the Conference play-off semifinals.

Real Salt Lake's American rising star Luis Gil (1993): 34 caps and 5 goals in the regular season.

Obafemi Martins, the Nigerian experienced forward of Seattle Sounders (ex Internazionale and Newcastle).

Vancouver Whitecaps features the Scottish Kenny Miller.

Cards are numbered from 1 to 200 without following a particular order. Card number 1 is Thierry Henry.

This is the list of the 200 players included:

Thierry Henry New York Red Bulls

Robbie Keane LA Galaxy

Tim Cahill New York Red Bulls

Chris Wondolowski San Jose Earthquakes

Graham Zusi Sporting Kansas City

Dwayne De Rosario D.C. United

Alessandro Nesta Montreal Impact

John Bostock Toronto FC

Osvaldo Alonso Seattle Sounders FC

Omar Gonzalez LA Galaxy

Chris Pontius D.C. United

Will Bruin Houston Dynamo

Eddie Johnson Seattle Sounders FC

Mike Magee LA Galaxy

Juninho LA Galaxy

Kyle Beckerman Real Salt Lake

Brad Davis Houston Dynamo

Austin Berry Chicago Fire

Jimmy Nielsen Sporting Kansas City

Aurelien Collin Sporting Kansas City

Matt Besler Sporting Kansas City

Victor Bernardez San Jose Earthquakes

Nick DeLeon D.C. United

Darlington Nagbe Portland Timbers

Tally Hall Houston Dynamo

Federico Higuain Columbus Crew

Alvaro Saborio Real Salt Lake

Brian Ching Houston Dynamo

Mauro Rosales Seattle Sounders FC

Jose Villarreal LA Galaxy

Juan Agudelo Chivas USA

Kenny Cooper FC Dallas

Nick Rimando Real Salt Lake

Chris Rolfe Chicago Fire

Sean Johnson Chicago Fire

Joel Lindpere Chicago Fire

Steve Zakuani Seattle Sounders FC

Ramiro Corrales San Jose EarthquakesDrew Moor Colorado Rapids

Jairo Arrieta Columbus Crew

Chad Marshall Columbus Crew

Justin Morrow San Jose Earthquakes

Zach Loyd FC Dallas

Carlo Cudicini LA Galaxy

Patrice Bernier Montreal Impact

Davy Arnaud Montreal Impact

Heath Pearce New York Red Bulls

Jeff Parke Philadelphia Union

Michael Gspurning Seattle Sounders FC

Darren Mattocks Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Michael Farfan Philadelphia Union

Ryan Johnson Portland Timbers

Fabian Espindola New York Red Bulls

Kevin Alston New England Revolution

Dan Kennedy Chivas USA

Robert Earnshaw Toronto FC

Claudio Bieler Sporting Kansas City

Jack McInerney Philadelphia Union

Sebastien Le Toux Philadelphia Union

David Ferreira FC Dallas

Diego Valeri Portland Timbers

Deshorn Brown Colorado Rapids

Edgar Mejia Chivas USA

Joaquin Velazquez Chivas USA

Mario de Luna Chivas USA

Bobby Burling Chivas USA

Eric Avila Chivas USA

Walter Vilchez Chivas USA

Laurent Courtois Chivas USA

Oswaldo Minda Chivas USA

Tristan Bowen Chivas USA

Dilly Duka Chicago Fire

Gonzalo Segares Chicago Fire

Jalil Anibaba Chicago Fire

Jeff Larentowicz Chicago Fire

Patrick Nyarko Chicago Fire

Sherjill MacDonald Chicago Fire

Atiba Harris Colorado Rapids

Brian Mullan Colorado RapidsDiego Calderon Colorado Rapids

Dillon Powers Colorado Rapids

Hendry Thomas Colorado Rapids

Marvell Wynne Colorado Rapids

Matt Pickens Colorado Rapids

Agustin Viana Columbus Crew

Andy Gruenebaum Columbus Crew

Danny O’Rourke Columbus Crew

Dominic Oduro Columbus Crew

Glauber Columbus Crew

Josh Williams Columbus Crew

Tyson Wahl Columbus Crew

Bill Hamid D.C. United

Brandon McDonald D.C. United

Chris Korb D.C. United

Dejan Jakovic D.C. United

Lionard Pajoy D.C. United

Perry Kitchen D.C. United

James Riley D.C. United

Andrew Jacobson FC Dallas

George John FC Dallas

Jackson FC Dallas

Matt Hedges FC Dallas

Raul Fernandez FC Dallas

Fabian Castillo FC Dallas

Michel FC Dallas

Bobby Boswell Houston Dynamo

Boniek Garcia Houston Dynamo

Corey Ashe Houston Dynamo

Jermaine Taylor Houston Dynamo

Kofi Sarkodie Houston Dynamo

Ricardo Clark Houston Dynamo

A.J. DeLaGarza LA Galaxy

Jack McBean LA Galaxy

Marcelo Sarvas LA Galaxy

Sean Franklin LA Galaxy

Todd Dunivant LA Galaxy

Andrea Pisanu Montreal Impact

Felipe Martins Montreal Impact

Hassoun Camara Montreal Impact

Jeb Brovsky Montreal ImpactMarco Di Vaio Montreal Impact

Matteo Ferrari Montreal Impact

Troy Perkins Montreal Impact

A.J. Soares New England Revolution

Andrew Farrell New England Revolution

Clyde Simms New England Revolution

Jerry Bengtson New England Revolution

Jose Goncalves New England Revolution

Juan Toja New England Revolution

Lee Nguyen New England Revolution

Matt Reis New England Revolution

Saer Sene New England Revolution

Dax McCarty New York Red Bulls

Jamison Olave New York Red Bulls

Luis Robles New York Red Bulls

Brandon Barklage New York Red Bulls

Eric Alexander New York Red Bulls

Juninho New York Red Bulls

Amobi Okugo Philadelphia Union

Brian Carroll Philadelphia Union

Keon Daniel Philadelphia Union

Raymon Gaddis Philadelphia Union

Sheanon Williams Philadelphia Union

Zac MacMath Philadelphia Union

Andrew Jean-Baptiste Portland Timbers

Diego Chara Portland Timbers

Donovan Ricketts Portland Timbers

Michael Harrington Portland Timbers

Mikael Silvestre Portland Timbers

Will Johnson Portland Timbers

Jack Jewsbury Portland Timbers

Chris Schuler Real Salt Lake

Khari Stephenson Real Salt Lake

Kwame Watson-Siriboe Real Salt Lake

Luis Gil Real Salt Lake

Robbie Findley Real Salt Lake

Sebastian Velasquez Real Salt Lake

Tony Beltran Real Salt Lake

Jason Hernandez San Jose Earthquakes

Jon Busch San Jose Earthquakes

Rafael Baca San Jose EarthquakesSam Cronin San Jose Earthquakes

Ty Harden San Jose Earthquakes

Jhon Kennedy Hurtado Seattle Sounders FC

DeAndre Yedlin Seattle Sounders FC

Mario Martinez Seattle Sounders FC

Andy Rose Seattle Sounders FC

Benny Feilhaber Sporting Kansas City

Oriol Rosell Sporting Kansas City

Paulo Nagamura Sporting Kansas City

Seth Sinovic Sporting Kansas City

C.J. Sapong Sporting Kansas City

Ashtone Morgan Toronto FC

Danny Califf Toronto FC

Darren O’Dea Toronto FC

Hogan Ephraim Toronto FC

Joseph Bendik Toronto FC

Reggie Lambe Toronto FC

Richard Eckersley Toronto FC

Terry Dunfield Toronto FC

Alain Rochat Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Andy O’Brien Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Daigo Kobayashi Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Gershon Koffie Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Joe Cannon Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Jun Marques Davidson Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Kenny Miller Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Young-Pyo Lee Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Jay DeMerit Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Edson Buddle Colorado Rapids

Danny Mwanga Colorado Rapids

Logan Pause Chicago Fire

Blas Perez FC Dallas

Steven Beitashour San Jose Earthquakes

Steven Lenhart San Jose Earthquakes

Teal Bunbury Sporting Kansas City

Danny Koevermans Toronto FC

Landon Donovan LA Galaxy

Obafemi Martins Seattle Sounders FC

Giles Barnes Houston Dynamo

Collection Details

Full Name: Topps MLS 2013

Publisher: Topps

League: Major League Soccer

Number of teams: 19

Cards per teams: 10, 11 or 12

Total Number of cards: 200

Extra cards: Pure Soccer (20 cards), MLS rivalries (8), Minis (15)