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sabato 23 luglio 2022

Panini Foot 89 (France)

The official sticker collection of the French football released by Panini changed its name in "Foot" for the '89 edition, after being called "Football" from 1976 to 1988. It is a small change, which lasts however up to our days.

The album features as usual the first two French Divisions. However, for the second division, only the club badge stickers are included. In addition, there is a section with the best football stars from Euro '88, the tournament held in Germany the previous summer and won by the Netherlands.

The collection begins with the clubs of Division 1 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 Division 2 section starts right after with the club badge stickers of the 36 clubs divided in two groups (A and B). Each badge sticker is half size metallic stickers, whereas player stickers are not included.

At the end of the album there is the "Flash sur Euro 88" section with an overview of the best players taking part in the Euro 88. Here we find 20 stickers of players in action: Gullit, Van Baster, Maldini, Vialli, Matthaus, Klinsmann, Michailitchenko, and Michael Laudrup, just to mention some of them. The album ends with no other sections with stickers. Moreover, there are no poster or updates for this collection.

Back cover of the album

Benoit Cauet (future player of FC Inter from 1997 to 2001) and Marcel Desially (with AC Milan from 1993 to 1998)

French stars in Marseille: Jean-Pierre Papin and Eric Cantona

International players included in this collection: the Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli and the English Mark Hateley

International players in Montpellier: the Colombian Carlos Valderrama and Roger Milla from Camerun

The album features a section with 20 stickers of players from Euro '88. Here two stars of the final Netherlands-U.R.S.S.: Marco van Basten and Alexei Mikhailitchenko

Album details

Full name: Foot 89 en images

Publisher: Panini

League: French (Division 1 and Division 2)

Season: 1988/1989

Number of clubs and stickers for each club:

Division 1 (20 clubs, 18 stickers)
Division 2 (36 clubs, 0.5 stickers)

Other sections:

Flash sur Euro 88 (20 stickers)

Poster: No

Updates: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 398

sabato 16 luglio 2022

Panini Football 87 (France)

Football 87 is the official sticker collection of the French football covering the 1986/87 season. The album features as usual all the clubs of Division 1 and Division 2. In addition, there is a small section about the World Cup Mexico '86.

The album begins with the clubs of Division 1 in alphabetical order. There are 16 stickers over two pages for each club: the metallic badge, the team photo, the coach, and 13 players. The section with the clubs of Division 2 starts right after, showing first the Group A and then the Group B, for a total of 36 teams. For each group, there is first a page with all the club badge stickers, which are half metallic stickers, and then the pages with the players. For each club there are three stickers with players for a total of 12 players included (four players on each sticker).

The album ends with a two-page section about the World Cup Mexico '86, won by Argentina few months before the pubblication of the album. In this section there is a summary of the tournament and 12 stickers of actions taken from the most remarkable matches. There are no extra items with stickers for this collection (poster, updates, etc.).