Only Good Stickers: ottobre 2023

venerdì 27 ottobre 2023

Panini Tour de France 2023

Panini released in the spring 2023 the fifth consecutive edition of the Tour de France series started in 2019. The collection includes 388 stickers and an update set of 25 stickers to be placed in the album; this year, however, there are no cards. The album was released also in the hardcover version, but without the collector's box as was done for the two previous editions.

The album begins with the presentation of the 110th edition and the sticker of Maxoo, the mascot of the Tour de France. In the following two pages, Panini celebrates some winners of the past (Dans la légende - In the legend) with six metallic stickers: Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, and Annemiek van Vleuten.

The album continues with the presentation of the 21 stages of the 2023 edition. For each stage there is one sticker of the arrival venue and one sticker of the stage winner. The latter can be found in the update set . At the end of this section there is also one page with the stickers of the 2023 jersey winners: Vingegaard (yellow jersey), Pogacar (white), Ciccone (pois), and Philipsen (green). Also those stickers can be found in the update set.

The 22 competing teams are then shown in alphabetical order, with 14 stickers displaced over two pages: the team logo, the team in action (metallic sticker), the bike (metallic), the jersey (metallic), and 14 riders.

After the presentation of the teams, the album includes a section dedicated to the Women's Tour de France. First, the route and the competition are introduced (1 sticker), then the stickers of 21 riders (one per team) are shown in the next pages. The stickers of the 22nd team (logo and rider) are included in the update set, together with the jersey winners: Demi Vollering (yellow jersey), Cédrine Kerbaol (white), Katarzyna Niewiadoma (pois), Lotte Kopecky (green).

The last page with stickers of the album includes four cartoon stickers of a funny drawing about the Tour de France.

The 2023 Tour de France was a great fight between Pogacar and the winner Vingegaard. Jasper Philipsen won four stages. In the Women's Tour de France, the Dutch queen Annemiek van Vleuten had to abdicate and pass the baton to the rising competitor Demi Vollering.

Back side of the hardcover album

The 2023 Tour de France was another amazing duel between Vingegaard (winner) and Pogacar (2nd place)

Last Tour de France for two loved riders: Thibaut Pinot and Peter Sagan

The Women's Tour de France is included with the stickers of the leaders; here Demi Vollering (2023 winner) and the legend Annemiek Van Vleuten (2022 winner)

The 2023 Tour de France winner (Vingegaard) and white jersey (Pogacar) stickers from the update set "Les instantanées"; those stickers find place in the album and are numbered from T1 to T25

Album details:

Full name: Tour de France 2023

Publisher: Panini

Sport: Cycling

Competition: Tour de France

Year: 2023

Hardcover album: Yes

Number of teams: 22

Stickers per team: 14

Other sections:

Introduction (1 sticker)
Dans la légende (6 stickers)
Les étapes - the stages (22 stickers)
Women's Tour de France (22 stickers)
Outro (4 stickers)

Update set: Les instantanées (25 stickers, T1-T25)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 388

giovedì 19 ottobre 2023

Futbol Colombia '87

Futbol Colombia 87 is a football collection of the Colombian football, including the 14 clubs of the main league (Campeonato Profesional), with special sections dedicated to the National Team and the Colombian referees.

As stated in the first page of the album, the collection was produced by Laminas Culturales LTDA and "it is the only one authorized by the 14 professional teams and the DIMAYOR". This collection follows the album Futbol Colombia 1986 released the season before. However, compare to the previous edition, Futbol Colombia 87 has smaller size stickers and album, and the overall quality is not the same. From the following year, Panini entered the Colombian market with the album Futbol 88.

In 1987, the Colombian championship was divided in "Apertura" and "Reclasificacion", with a final group stage composed by the best eight teams. At the end of the final phase, Millionarios won the Colombian title, whereas America de Calì got the second place. The club from Calì lost also the Copa Libertadores final against Peñarol (Uruguay).

The album Futbol Colombia 87 begins with the foreword of the editors and two introductory pages with stickers. The first one is dedicated to the most memorable National Teams from Colombia. Here we find nine stickers: the Federation logo and four teams (each team composed by two stickers). The selected teams are the Colombia National teams from the World Cup 1962, Copa America 1975, Copa America Youth and Copa America 1987. The second page shows eight stickers with the Colombian referees of the National Federation.

The 14 clubs of the Campeonato Profesional are shown in alphabetical order. For each club there are 19 stickers: the club badge, the team photo (two stickers), and 16 player portrait stickers. Player details are printed on the album underneath the player sticker. The collection ends with no additional stickers.

Back cover of the album

Club badge stickers from the album Futbol Colombia 87

The stickers of two Colombian football stars playing in the national league in 1987: Valderrama (Deportivo Calì) and Higuita (Atletico Nacional)

Album details:

Full name: Futbol Colombia 87

Publisher: Laminas Culturales LTDA

League: Colombian (Campeonato Profesional)

Season: 1987

Number of clubs: 14

Stickers per club: 19

Other sections:

Selecciones Colombia mas recordadas - Best Colombia selections (9 stickers)
Arbitros - referees (8 stickers)

Total number of stickers: 283

venerdì 13 ottobre 2023

Panini Foot 2023

Foot 2023 is the official stickers collection of the French football for the 2022/2023 season. This year, the colection includes only the Ligue 1, while the Ligue 2 has a separate and dedicated digital sticker album that can be printed once completed.

The collection features again a special collector box, including the hardcover album and 80 packets. There is also the usual update set with the winter transfers and this time also the highlights of the season (Film de la saison), which were included last time in the album Foot 2012 (with two special sticker packets).

The album begins with an introductory page featuring the metallic sticker of the Ligue 1 trophy. The following four pages are dedicated to the new players of the league and the players that came back. Those two sections, called "Welcome" and "Welcome back" feature in total 20 shiny metallic stickers of players.

The Ligue 1 clubs are then shown in alphabetical order, with 20 stickers per club, displaced over four pages. In the first two pages, the clubs and the top players are introduced with four shiny stickers: the club badge, the home shirt, and two players (the stats and the expert). The entire squad is shown in the following two pages, with 16 player portrait stickers. There is also space for the usual update stickers, coming from the "Set transferts" released this time at the end of the season. Again this year, the update stickers are only half size, and there is space for up to a maximum of three update stickers for each club. The update set includes also 12 stickers with the highlights of the season, which can find space in two pages at the end of the album. Before, there are also the fixtures of the season, with the shiny stickers of the Ligue 1 champions 2021/2022 (PSG).

Along the presentation of the 20 Ligue 1 clubs, there are also special pages dedicated to the best stars and young talent of the tournament. "Parallel cracks" includes 10 stickers of the best players in action. For each sticker there are also two additional version (parallels) that are rarer stickers inserted in packets, but only one can be stuck in the album. In addition, there are four pages with the next-gen talents of Ligue 1, for a total of 20 shiny stickers.

In the season 2022/2023, PSG won the Ligue 1 title with one point more than Lens. Mbappé was the top goalscorer with 29 goals, second place for Lacazette (27 goals) and third for David (24 goals).