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lunedì 22 marzo 2021

Panini Football 84 (Belgium)

Football 84 is the 12th Panini album of the Belgian football. The album begins with the calendar of the season, the contents and an introductory page about "Belgian revelations", where there are the first two stickers of the album: Marc van der Linden (Antwerp) and Danny Vandenhende (St-Niklaas) in action.

Then the clubs of First Division are shown in alphabetical order. For each club there are 18 stickers over two pages: the metallic club badge, the team photo (two stickers), the coach, and 14 players.

The Second Division starts immediately after, with two pages including all the team photos (16 stickers) and details about the clubs. In the following pages, first all the club badges are shown (half metallic sticker per badge), and then for each club the coach and 11 players are inlcuded (six twin stickers).

In the season 1983/1984, Beveren won their second Belgian title (with 51 points), ahead of Anderlecht (47 points) and Club Brugge (44 points). Nico Claesen (Seraing) was the top scorer with 27 goals. Anderlecht reached the final of the UEFA Cup, where they lost against Tottenham at penalties.

Back cover of the album

The strikers Czerniatynski (17 goals in the First Division 1983/84) and Jan Ceulemans (15 goals)

Nico Claesen (top scorer of the Belgian First Division 1983/84) and the goalkeeper Michel Preud'homme (53 caps with Belgium)

Album details:

Full name: Football 84

Publisher: Panini

League: Belgian (First and Second Division)

Season: 1983/1984

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

First Division (18 clubs, 18 stickers)
Second Division (16 clubs, 2.5 stickers)

Other sections:

Panini-Revelatie (2 stickers)

Extra (poster, updates): No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 446

mercoledì 17 marzo 2021

Panini Fussball 97 (Germany)

In the season 1996/1997, the German football continued its magic moment. After the victory at Euro 1996 and the Ballon d'Or for Matthias Sammer, two German clubs won the European Cups 1997: Borussia Dortmund defetead Juventus in the Champions League final (3-1) and Schalke won the UEFA Cup at penalties against Inter.

The official sticker collection of the German football was realesed by Panini with the album Fussball 97, which focuses on the Bundesliga, but it includes also a section dedicated to the German National Team that won the Euro Cup in 1996.

The album begins with the contents and an introductory page including the celebratory stickers of the winners 1996: Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga) and Bayern Munchen (UEFA Cup). Then the 18 Bundesliga clubs are shown following the classification order of the previsous season. For each club there are 25 or 26 stickers over six pages. The difference is in the first page, which includes the shiny club badge and the team photo stickers for all the clubs, but the supporters sticker only for 11 clubs. The following three pages include 18 player portrait stickers, whereas in the last two pages there are five shiny stickers of players in action together with statistics of the club.

In the center of the album there is a two page section about the German victory at Euro 1996 (Deutschland Europameister). Here we find 10 stickers (out of which seven are shiny) of the final. The album continues with the second part of the Bundesliga clubs and it ends with a page about the top 300 Bundesliga goalscorers of the century (Ewige Torjager Top-300), with two stickers: Bobic and Klinsmann in action.