Panini Calciatori 1978

In the 1977/1978 Serie A, only 16 teams were competing in a two-round tournament. Juventus won the title with 44 points, second place for Vicenza and Torino with 39 points. The Italian striker Paolo Rossi was the top scorer with 24 goals, eight more goals than Giuseppe Savoldi (Napoli), who was second with 16 goals.

The sticker album published by Panini includes the four professional leagues (Serie A, B, C and D). However, there are no stickers for the Serie D. In the collection there is also a section about the National team preparing the World Cup 1978. The album cover is colorful, with some photos of players in action and the badges of the 16 Serie A clubs. The introductory pages of the album shows the calendar of the seasons, with the European cups and the Serie A games. In these pages we find 16 stickers with the Serie A club badges.

Serie A clubs are then shown in alphabetical order with 18 stickers per club over two pages: the team photo and 17 players. Printed on the album there are also all the player details and careers. Before the last Serie A club (Verona) there are four pages about the Italian National team. This section includes 37 stickers over four pages about regular days of the Italian selection: a walk in the city, autographs, training, socialization, games, and even time for some stickers.

The Serie B section starts with the calendar of the season and the badge stickers of the 20 competing clubs (on each sticker there are two club badges). Then for each club there are 8 stickers: the team photo and seven player stickers (two players per sticker for a total of 14 players). On the sides of the club pages there are the badge stickers of the National teams and for each team the summary of the scores against Italy.

Before the Serie C section, there is one page with the team photo stickers of the Italian team at the World Cups from 1934 to 1974. The album ends with the team photo stickers of the 60 clubs competing in the Serie C, divided in three groups. 

Back cover of the album

Giancarlo Antognoni has 341 caps and 61 goals with Fiorentina. Fabio Capello played for AC Milan from 1976 to 1980

Altobelli scored 10 goals for Inter in the 1977/78 Serie A, while Paolo Rossi was the top scorer of the league with 24 goals

Club legends Dino Zoff (Juventus) and Giacinto Facchetti (Inter)

Great midfielders who won the World Cup 1982: Tardelli and Bruno Conti

Famous players in Serie B: Evaristo Beccalossi, who played for Inter starting from the following season until 1984, and Marcello Lippi, the coach who won the World Cup 2006 with Italy

Album details:

Full name: Calciatori 1977-78

Publisher: Panini

League: Italian (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C)

Season: 1977/1978

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

• Serie A (16 clubs, 18 stickers)
• Serie B (20 clubs, 8 stickers)
• Serie C (60 clubs, 1 sticker)

Other sections:

• Serie A club badges (16 stickers)
• Club Italia (37 stickers)
• Serie B club badges (10 stickers)
• National Team club badges (21 stickers)
• L'Italia ai campionati del mondo (8 stickers)

Updates: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 600

 

Panini Football 78

 

Football 78 is the third Panini album of the French football. The cover of the album has the same style of the album published in Belgium in the same year (Football 78) with just different colors and pictures. Also the layout inside the two albums are very similar.

The album begins with the fixtures of the season and the foreword by Jacques Ferran. Then the 20 clubs of Première Division are shown in alphabetical order. Each club is displaced over two pages with a total of 18 stickers: the team photo, the club badge, the coach, and 15 players. There are no special metallic or shiny stickers yet. Those will appear the following year (Football 79). Details and careers of each player are also included in the album. 

AS Monaco won the title 1977/1978 despite being just promoted to the First Division. It was an extraordinary season for the Argentinian striker Carlos Bianchi, who scored 37 goals with Paris-Saint-Germain. The season will be also remembered for the great performance of Michel Platini (Nancy), who scored four goals in a game against Nice.

In the center of the album there are two International sections dedicated to the French National team. The first section is a summary of all the games played by France against other National teams. Here we find the sticker of the French Federation and 36 team badge stickers of the other National teams (half sticker each). The second section (Allez France!) presents the Franch team that will take part in the upcoming 1978 World Cup with 18 round stickers and the latest games with 17 action stickers.

This collection does not include the Second Division, but at the end of the album after all the clubs of First Division there is a section about the football stars of the past. Here we find 36 stickers of old football players with a description of their careers and achievements. Among them we can mention Jean Djorkaeff (father of Youri Djorkaeff), Just Fontaine (best known for scoring the most goals in a single edition of the FIFA World Cup, with 13 goals in 1958) and Jairzinho (World Champion with Brazil in 1970).

Back cover of the album

The charismatic French managers Aime Jacquet (coach of France during the World Cup '98) and Gilbert Gress (who is considered the menthor of Arsène Wenger)

Club badge stickers from Football 78

Michel Platini (18 goals in Division 1 1977/78) and Carlos Bianchi (top goalscorer with 37 goals)

Album details:

Full name: Football 78

Publisher: Panini

League: French (Première Division)

Season: 1977/1978

Number of clubs: 20

Stickers per club: 18

Other sections:

• Bilan de l'Equipe Nationale (19 stickers)
• Allez France! (35 stickers)
• Les étoiles du passé (36 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 450