Only Good Stickers: febbraio 2016

sabato 20 febbraio 2016

Panini Voetbal 83

Panini Voetbal 83 includes all the teams of the Dutch leagues Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie for the season 1982/1983. In this album we can find the first rookie sticker of Marco van Basten, player of Ajax. The album opens with a tribute to Italy, World Champion 1982 in Spain. This first page includes three stickers: Paolo Rossi (best scorer of Italy in the World Cup) and the team photo of Italy (two stickers). Then the 18 Eredivisie teams are shown in alphabetical order. For each team there are 18 stickers: the club badge (special metalllic sticker), the team photo (two stickers), the coach, and 14 players.

The section of the Eerste Divisie starts with two pages of presentation of the teams in which there is a team photo sticker of each team (half sticker) and the sticker of the logo of the Eerste Divisie (also half sticker). The players of each team are placed on half page with a total of 11 half stickers of players and one half sticker of the coach.

Ajax won the Eredivisie 1982/83 with 58 points, second place for Feyenoord (54 points) and third for PSV (51 points). Best scorer was Peter Houtman (Feyenoord) with 30 goals. For the young Marco van Basten 9 goals in 20 matches.

Club badges of Voetbal 83: Ajax, Alkmaar and Feyenoord

Club badges of Voetbal 83: Go Ahead Eagles, NEC and Roda

The fantastic Dutch trio before moving to AC Milan: Van Basten (Rookie sticker), Rijkaaard and Gullit

Koeman brothers playing in the same team (FC Groningen)

Album details

Full name: Voetbal 83

Publisher: Panini

League: Dutch Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie

Season: 1982/1983

Number of teams: 18 Eredivisie and 17 Eerste Divisie

Stickers per team: 18 for Eredivisie and 6 for Eerste Divisie

Special section: - Italy World Champions (3 stickers)

- Eerste Divisie 1982-83 (9 stickers)

Total number of stickers: 438

venerdì 12 febbraio 2016

Panini Brasileiro 2015

Panini Brasileiro continues with a 2015 edition that completes a trilogy of football: the ball (cover of Brasileiro 2013), the player (cover of Brasileiro 2014), and the supporters (cover of Brasileiro 2015). In the latest four editions (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) also an hardcover album was issued, but surprisingly for Brasileiro 2015 there is only a softcover album available.

The album opens with a foreword, the table of contents and the first sticker: the trophy of Brasileirao 2015 (transparent foil sticker).

Serie A teams are then shown in alphabetical order, each displaced over two pages with a total of 20 stickers: four transparent stickers (club badge, mascot, home/away kit, and the club flag), and 16 players. Stickers of players include details as full name, position, place/date of birth, and for the first time also the flag of the Brazilian state of origin. Atletico Paranaense does not have a mascot sticker also this year, thus it has 19 stickers instead of 20.

Each of the Serie B teams includes 10 stickers on one page: four transparent stickers as for Serie A teams (club badge, mascot, flag and home/away kit) and six stickers with a total of 12 players (two players per sticker).

Corinthians dominated the Serie A of Brasileirao 2015 totalizing 81 points. Far behind Atletico Mineiro (second place with 69 points), Gremio (68 points), and Sao Paulo (62 points). Relegated to the second division are Avai, Vasco da Gama, Goias, and Joinville. Verdicts in Serie B are the promotion of Botafogo, Santa Cruz, Vitoria, and America-MG and the relegation to Serie C of Macae, ABC, Boa Esporte, and Mogi Mirim. These teams will be substituted next season by four teams coming up from Serie C (and thus included in the next Panini Brasileiro 2016): Vila Nova, Londrina, Tupi, and Brasil de Pelotas.

Three rookie stickers of interesting players born in 1997: Malcom (forward, 31 appearances, 5 goals, transferred to Bordeaux), Gerson (Midfielder, 29 appearances and 1 goal, transferred to Roma), and Gabriel de Jesus (forward, 20 appearances, 4 goals for Palmeiras)

One sealed packet Brasileiro 2015

Young prospects included (born on 1995 or younger)

Serie A: Carlos (1995, Atletico Mineiro), Leo Pereira and Marcos Guilherme (96 and 95, Atletico PR), Malcom (97, Corinthians), Dener and Clayton (both 95, Figueirense), Marlon and Gerson (95 and 97, Fluminense), Everton and Carlos Eduardo (95 and 96, Goias), Walace, Fernandinho, and Mamute (all 95, Gremio), William (95, Internacional), Gabriel de Jesus (97, Palmeiras), Jeferson (96, Ponte Petra), Caju and Gabriel Barbosa (95 and 96, Santos), Lucao and Boschilia (both 96, Sao Paulo), Neto Moura (96, Sport);
Serie B: Marcilio (95, ABC), Richarlison (97, America), Luiz Fernando (96, Atletico Goianiense), Jean, Bruno Paulista, and Romulo (all 95, Bahia), Leonardo (96), Mardley (95), and Thaciano (95, Boa), Isaac (95, Bragantino), Buiù (96, Cearà), Maxwell (95, CRB), Iago Maidana (96), Barreto (95), Douglas Moreira (96), Roger Guedes (96), Jefferson (97, Criciuma), Gustavo and Romildo Neto (95 and 97, Mogi Mirim), Thiago Martins (95, Paysandu), Edgar (96, Sampaio), Ramon and Flavio (95 and 96, Vitoria)
One mistake in the album: Lucas Santos Siqueira has a birth date of 1998, but he is actually from 1988.

Album details
Full name: Campeonato Brasileiro 2015
Publisher: Panini
League: Brazilian (Serie A and Serie B)
Season: 2015
Team included: 20 for Serie A and 20 for Serie B
Stickers per team: 20 for Serie A (except Atletico PR, 19 stickers)
10 for Serie B
Other stickers: the trophy of Brasileirao

Total number of stickers: 600 stickers

venerdì 5 febbraio 2016

Panini Voetbal 81

Panini Voetbal 81 includes all the 18 teams of Eredivisie and the 19 teams of Eerste Divisie, the two Dutch professional leagues.

The album opens with the table of contents and a map of the Netherlands with the location of each team. Then, the Eredivisie teams are shown in alphabetical order, each displaced over two pages with a total of 18 stickers: the club badge (shining sticker), the team photo (two stickers), the coach, and 14 players. Below each player sticker there is a brief description of the player career.

AZ '67 won the title of the season 1980/81 with 60 points, second place for Ajax with 48 points, third place for Utrecht and Feyenoord with 45 points.

After the Eredivisie, the section of the Eerste Divisie begins with the club badges. On one page all the shining badges (half stickers) and the logo of the Eerste Divisie (also half sticker) find place.

Each Eerste Divisie team is on half page with six stickers of 12 players (two players per sticker). In team Haarlem it appears for the first time the 18 years old Ruud Gullit, sharing the sticker with the teammate Keith Masefield.