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venerdì 3 aprile 2020

Panini PSV Droomalbum 2018

In January 2018, Panini produced a collection dedicated to the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven. The album was released in the Jumbo supermarkets and packets were given away every 10€ shopping. The album is from the "Panini family" series, that produced also the album dedicated to Feyenoord (always with Jumbo) or to the Belgian Red Devils (with the Carrefour supermarkets).

The "dream album" about PSV (droomalbum in Dutch) reviews the team and staff of the season 2017/2018, the stadium, the heroes and legends of the club, training tips, and supporters. The season 2017/2018 is a special memory for PSV fans, as they won the Eredivisie title on April 15, defeating Ajax 3-0 at home. In the following all the sections included in the album are presented.

Team and Staff 2017/2018 - 4 stickers

The first page of the album includes the stickers of the shiny PSV badge, the team photo, the coach Cocu and his staff.

Philips Stadion - 15 stickers

The Philips stadium is a modern stadium in the centre of Eindhoven with a capacity of 35'000 visitors. It was built in the same area where in 1913 the first game of PSV was played.

Players - 77 stickers

In this section the players of the squad 2017/2018 are presented with facts and details. Here there are shiny and regular stickers of the players in actions. The players included are: Zoet, Room, Koopmans, Van Osch, Isimat-Mirin, Luckassen, Schwaab, ARias, Brenet, Paal, Hendrix, Van Ginkel, Ramselaar, Rigo, Rosario, Lundqvist, Maher, Pereiro, De Jong, Locadia, Lammers, Lozano, and Bergwijn.

Prijzen en Geschiedenis (Trophies and History) - 30 stickers

This section explores the history and main successes of the club. Philips Sport Vereniging (PSV) was founded on May 31, 1913. They won the first Eredivisie title in 1929 and the first National Cup in 1950. They count 24 Eredivisie titles up to today. The main International trophies are the UEFA Cup won in 1978 (0-0 and 3-0 in the finals against Bastia) and the Champions Cup in 1988 (0-0 against Benfica, won at penalties).

Helden en Legendes (Heroes and Legends) - 13 stickers
This section of two pages focuses on the top players in the history of the club. For each player there is a regular or shiny sticker and a brief description. Here there are the stickers of the Brazilians Romario and Ronaldo, the Dutch legends van Nistelrooy, Cocu, Van Bommel, and the hero of the European Cup final in 1988, the goalkeeper van Breukelen.

Trainingstips - 10 stickers
In this two page section, there are football tips and tricks explained with 10 stickers of PSV players in action.

Fanzone - 15 stickers

PSV is a popular club with lots of supporters. The PSV Phoxy Club is the club for young supporters, named after the mascot Phoxy. In this section there is space also for the two PSV e-Sport players.

Win een droomdag bij PSV (Win a dream day at PSV) - 4 stick.
This last section includes instruction to win a day at PSV.

Checklist and Update - 4 stickers

Last but not least, the checklist page to keep track of the 168 stickers of this collection and the update page with four new player stickers (X1 to X4). The update sheet was released in the Jumbo supermarkets after the winter market.

Back cover of the album

The sheet with the four update stickers

Shining stickers of two major players of the season 2017/18: Arias and Bergwijn. They later moved to Atletico Madrid and Tottenham, respectively.

Luuk de Jong and Lozano, key players of the season 2017/18. They left PSV at the end of the following season for Sevilla and Napoli, respectively.

Legends of PSV: Luis Nazario da Lima "Ronaldo" and Ruud van Nistelrooy

Legends of PSV: the goalkeeper van Breukelen and Romario

Album details:

Full name: PSV Droomalbum

Publisher: Panini - Jumbo

Release: January 2018

Country: Netherlands

Club: PSV Eindhoven

Season: 2017/2018

Sections:

Team & Staf (4 stickers)
Philips Stadion (15 stickers)
Players (77 stickers)
Prijzen en Geschiedenis (30 stickers)
Helden en Legendes (13 stickers)
Trainingstips (10 stickers)
Fanzone (15 stickers)
Win een droomdag bij PSV! (4 stickers)

Update: new players (4 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 172

mercoledì 1 aprile 2020

Panini Scottish League 1999

In the season 1998-1999, Rangers won the Scottish Premier League title after defeating the rivals Celtic with a 0-3 at Celtic Park on May 2, 1999 and conluding the season with 6 points more than the rivals. Rangers were managed by the Dutch coach Advocaat and they had key players like Amoruso, van Bronckhorst, Kanchelskis, and the English striker Rod Wallace (19 goals). However, the best scorer of the season was by far the Celtic striker Henrik Larsson with 29 goals.

Panini released for the season 1998-99 the sixth album dedicated only to the Scottish league (in the 80's Panini used to merge the Scottish league in the UK Football albums). It is a brilliant collection with large sections dedicated to the Scottish Premier League clubs and a marvelous double page with International football stars, including fancy shiny stickers of famous players (Baggio, Ronaldo, Zidane, etc.).

The album starts with the fixtures of the season and a foreword with two stickers: the SPL logo (shiny sticker) and the official ball. Then the 10 competing clubs are shown in alphabetical order. The main five clubs (Aberdeeen, Celtic, Dundee Utd, Hearts and Rangers) have 40 stickers displaced over 8 pages, whereas the other clubs have 36 stickers over 6 pages, missing four profile player stickers. The stickers included are the team photo (two stickers), the shiny badge, the home and away kit (one sticker numbered and divided in two), the home ground, the nickname of the club (shiny sticker), the supporters, the manager, 18 or 22 profile player stickers (including two stickers of rising stars), and 10 action stickers.

In the center of the album there are two special sections. "Scottish stars" includes 9 stickers of Scottish players in the English Premier League. "International Stars" is a double page with 14 fabulous shiny stickers of famous football stars, mostly playing in the Italian Serie A. Only three of them come from the Spanish Liga (Luis Enrique, Raul and Seedorf).