Only Good Stickers: 2024

mercoledì 13 novembre 2024

Panini Brasileirão 2023

Brasilerão 2023 is the official sticker collection of the Brazilian football released by Panini in August 2023. It includes the clubs of the two main leagues (Serie A and Serie B) and it features also a hardcover version of the album, as usual since 2011 (except for 2015).

The album begins with the contents and the foreword, but without introductory stickers. The 20 clubs of Serie A are then shown starting from the tilte owner Palmeiras. For each club there are 17 stickers displaced over two pages: the shiny badge (numbered with the letter "E"), the shiny mascot (numbered with "M") and 15 players. The 20 clubs of Serie B have also the badge and mascot stickers, but only six stickers of players (there are two players on each sticker for a total of 12 players per team).

Between the Serie A and Serie B clubs, there are three special sections. The first one is "O Rei do Brasileirão" and it is dedicated to Pelé, who passed away in December 2022. Here we find four special shiny stickers of the great Brazilian legend Pelé. The second section is "Supercraques do Brasileirão 2023", featuring the shiny stickers of Luis Suarez, Hulk, and Marcelo. These three stickers exist also in three other variations (gold, silver, bronze), for a total of nine extra parallel stickers. The last section is "Camisas 10", with five stickers of number 10 players: Rony, Alan Patrick, Ganso, Roger Guedes, and Gabi. There are no updates for this collection.

After the 2022 title, Palmeiras won also the 2023 Seria A championship. Paulinho (Atletico Mineiro) was the top goal scorer of the tournament with 20 goals.

Back cover of the album

The rising star Endrick (17 years old) moved to Real Madrid in July 2024. Paulinho was the top scorer of the Serie A 2023 with 20 goals

Luis Suarez portrait and "supercraque" stickers. He scored 17 goals in the Brasileirão 2023.

Album details:

Full name: Brasileirão 2023

Publisher: Panini

Release: August 2023

League: Brazilian (Serie A and Serie B)

Season: 2023

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

Serie A (20 clubs, 17 stickers)
Serie B (20 clubs, 8 stickers)

Other sections:

O Rei do Brasileirão (4 stickers)
Supercraques do Brasileirão 2023 (3 stickers)
Camisas 10 (5 stickers)

Updates: No

Extra: Supercraques variations (9 stickers)

Hardcover album: Yes

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 512

martedì 5 novembre 2024

Topps Champions League 2024

With the 2023/2024 season, Topps expand their Champions League album to 741 stickers, with additional parallel stickers of different rarity for the "impact" player of each team. There are, however, no updates or "live" stickers, like in the previous edition.

The album begins with the contents and the first three stickers: the topps logo, the UCL trophy and the UEFA Respect sticker. Before presenting the teams of the 2023/2024 Champions League, there is a two-page section with the 2022/2023 "Team of the season". Here we find, for both men and women, 11 shining action stickers of the players being part of the team of the season and the sticker of the "Player of the season" (Rodri for the men and Bonmatì for the women). In the team of the season there are eight Manchester City players (who won the tournament), two Inter players (Bastoni and Di Marco, who reached the final), and Vinicius.

The 32 teams taking part in the 2023/2024 Champions League are shown in alphabetical order. For each team there are 19 stickers displaced over two pages: the shiny club badge, the Superstriker (shiny sticker), the Impact player (shiny sticker), the Next Gen player, and 15 player portrait stickers. The Impact player stickers have nine parallel versions: gold, green (limited to 299), purple (250), orange (199), pink (150), blue (99), red (50), diamond (25), pearl (5), platinum (1).

In the last part of the album there are five special sections. "Starball history" includes 23 stickers with the official ball of the Champions League finals since 2001. "Memories that stick" is a four-page section with 48 sticker of the most memorable Champions League matches of the past. "Mega Signings" features 23 stickers of new transfers for the 2023/2024 season; here we find the sticker of Harry Kane (from Tottenham to Bayern Munchen for 100 M€) and Jude Bellingham (from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid for 103 M€). In the section "Vote for the G.O.A.T." we find the signed stickers of the 11 greatest players voted by Topps collectors: Buffon, Zanetti, Cannavaro, Maldini, Roberto Carlos, Zidane, Pirlo, Iniesta, Ronaldo Nazario, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. The album ends with a page dedicated to the 2023 Youth League won by AZ against Hajduk; this section features one sticker of Meerdink (AZ), the top goalscorer of the tournament.