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[COYS]

Who remembers collecting Panini stickers when they were at school?





Jean-Marc Bosman, FC Liege Panini Belgium 1989
Midfielder Jean-Marc Bosman won 20 caps for Belgium at youth level but hadn’t managed to hold down a regular place with his first club, Standard Liege, before joining their city neighbours in 1987. In the summer of 1990, aged 26, he came to the end of his contract with FC Liege who offered him a new deal worth only 60 per cent of the previous one. He agreed terms on a move to Dunkerque of the French second division but they couldn’t meet Liege's fee. Two months later Bosman sued his club and the Belgian FA. In November 1990 a Belgian court declared that he should be free to move to France. By the time that the Belgian FA’s appeal against this ruling was dismissed in May 1991, Dunkerque had changed their minds about signing Bosman and no club would take him in Belgium, where he was refused unemployment benefit. Legal disputes rolled on for another four years during which he played briefly in the French lower leagues and on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. In December 1995 Bosman was awarded $1 million in damages at an EU tribunal, which established that players should be allowed to move for free at the end of their contracts. Right now, he’s got a new T-shirt collection, “for cool guys who also care about their look”.




Dan Coe, Antwerp Panini Belgium 1972-73 and Lutz Eigendorf, Kaiserslautern Panini Fussball 82
Full-back Dan Coe was one of several Romanian internationals permitted to move abroad in the early 1970s. He spent two years with Antwerp in Belgium before returning home, but then defected back to the West in 1975. He settled in Germany where he worked for the Romanian language service of the Munich-based station Radio Free Europe. In 1980 he was found hanging in his apartment in Cologne. It was subsequently claimed that he was killed at the behest of the Romanian government but this has never been proved.

Lutz Eigendorf won six international caps for the GDR as a midfielder with Dynamo Berlin, the state-favoured team who won a European record ten successive league titles. He defected in 1979 and, after serving a one-year suspension, played in the Bundesliga for Kaiserslautern and Eintracht Braunschweig. On March 5, 1983 Eigendorf was involved in a car accident and died of his injuries two days later. Stasi files examined after German reunification in 1989 revealed that he had been murdered for having criticised the East German regime after his defection.




Edinho, Santos Campeonato Brasileiro 96
Few sons of famous footballers have got close to matching their father’s achievements. Edson Cholbi Do Nascimento had a harder job than most given that his father is Pelé. Born in August 1970 just over a month after his father starred in Brazil’s World Cup-winning team, he sought to avoid direct comparisons by becoming a goalkeeper, with Pelé’s old team Santos. In six years with the club he failed to hold down a place, and was regularly sent out on loan, although he did feature in the 1995 league title-winning side. After failing to restart his playing career in the US he retired in 1999. Later that year he was jailed in connection with an illegal street car race in Santos that led to a motorcyclist being killed, although his conviction was subsequently overturned. He then spent time in custody awaiting trial on cocaine smuggling charges, which were later dropped, and has received treatment for drug addiction. Last year, in what does rather look like a favour sorted out by his Dad, he returned to Santos as an assistant coach, saying: “I have put my nightmare behind me.” Pelé’s second son Joshua, now 12, also hopes to become a footballer – but a job in the civil service might be safer.

There are four interesting players to kick it off. I'll post a few more later on.

[Matieo10]

I hate Jean-Marc Bosman

Edinho it's been soo long since I've heard his name, he really lived up to the hype

[COYS]

Erwin Kostedde, Kickers Offenbach König Fussball 1972-73
Centre-forward Erwin Kostedde was the first black footballer to be capped by West Germany. The son of an American soldier, he played three times, including against England at Wembley in 1975. A consistent goalscorer throughout his career, Kostedde had spells in Belgium and France as well as playing for eight German clubs. Kickers Offenbach are the team he is is most associated with and it was while playing for them that he won the Bundesliga Goal of the Season award in 1973-74. Among the several other players of American-German background, the best-known was Bayer Leverkusen central defender Tom Dooley who took a crash course in English before winning his first cap for the USA in 1992.



Ron Atkinson, Atlético Madrid Futbol 89
Ron appears to be hurrying from the airport, clutching directions to Atlético Madrid’s stadium or possibly his contract. Appointed in October 1988, he lasted three months, which was about the average for Atlético’s insane president, Jesus Gil y Gil. Two other British managers were in La Liga at the time – Howard Kendall at Athletic Bilbao and John Toshack in the first of three spells with Real Sociedad. In the same era, Jock Wallace spent a year at Sevilla while Colin Addison had one season each at three different clubs including Atlético Madrid where he succeeded Big Ron. The Spanish term for a football coach, el mister, is a reflection of the major British influence on the early days of professional football but there is little trace of it today. Chris Coleman is the only manager from the UK to have worked in Spain in the past decade, spending five months at Real Sociedad this season. The fact that their results improved considerably after he left can only be a coincidence.



Abe van de Ban, FC Amsterdam Voetbal Sterren 1973-74 & FC Haarlem Voetbal 1980
Footballers are as much slaves to fashion as anyone so it's a rare player who develops his own look and sticks to it. Dutch midfielder Abe van de Ban's career ran from the late 1960s to the early 1980s but he clearly liked the 19th century – although there is no record of his also having worn a monocle in his spare time. Van de Ban (whose full first name was Arberth) owned a hairdressing business so had access to whatever was needed to keep that majestic twirler in trim. He didn't get to play international football, so the high point of his career was probably being in the FC Amsterdam side that beat Internazionale on their way to the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in 1974-75. He was also a Haarlem team-mate of the young Ruud Gullit whose own moustache will have seemed a very puny thing by comparison.

[ViVaRooney]

[Matieo10]

Originally Posted by COYS

[The Masterpiece]

I have a couple of Kahn and Totti stickers staring me right in the face as I type

[COYS]

Hugo Maradona, Ascoli Panini Calciatori 1987-88
It’s the custom in Italy to add a numeral to the surname of a player from a football family. Hugo was the third footballing Maradona but the second to play in Serie A – a middle brother Raul spent two seasons with Granada in the Spanish second division before returning to Argentina. Hugo may already found his surname a burden by the time he joined Ascoli as an 18-year-old in 1987, so being referred to as “Maradona II” can’t have helped. He spent one season in Italy scoring no goals in 13 appearances, before a couple of years in Spain and brief spells in Austria, Venezuela and Uruguay. He then settled down in Japan where he played for six years. There was a brief revival of Maradona mania in Italy when Diego’s son, Diego Sinagra, born in 1986 as the product of an extra marital affair, signed for Napoli as a 16-year-old. But he was released without playing a first-team game and spent last season with Venafro in fifth-level Serie D. He has since been picked for Italy’s World Cup squad in beach soccer.



Alex Ferguson, St Mirren & Willie Munro, Clydebank Football 78
One of Panini’s innovations when they launched collections for the UK market was a Scottish club section. In this first British album, Rangers and Celtic were given the same allocation as the English teams – 14 players plus their boss – while the other SPL clubs were restricted to seven players and manager. The Scots were habitually photographed against a backdrop of plain sky varying from mid-blue to bleak grey. In Willie Munro’s case, what appears to be fog behind him accentuates his resemblance to a cruel aristocrat in a Gothic horror film. Alex Ferguson’s mini-biography, meanwhile, contains two mistakes in its opening sentence. The first is that he “spent most of his professional career with Rangers” when he was only there for two seasons. Secondly it’s suggested that he “operated on the right wing” when he was a centre-forward. These lines disappear from his subsequent Panini pen portraits. He may have had a (stern) word..



David Beckham Panini 1997 & Michel Platini Football 1974-75
Panini’s rivals Merlin became the official sticker publishers for the English First Division the year before the Premier League was formed. Unable to depict team kits, Panini had to make do with players in tracksuits bearing the logo of their union, the PFA, who sponsored the collection. Worst still, with team logos also prohibited, the album was organised on an A to Z basis rather than club by club. The French players' union, the UNFP, had also stepped in to sponsor sticker albums in the mid-1970s when publishers AGE failed to reach an image rights agreement with the French league. Hence photos of players in UNFP T-shirts, like this distinctly retouched-looking Michel Platini. Panini became the official publishers of French football sticker albums two years later. Merlin still hold the exclusive rights to the Premier League so Panini UK now concentrate on international tournaments, barring occasional dalliances with the Football League and Scottish League.

[chels1905]

my dad had cards similar to them from the 66 world cup ( I think it was the 66 world cup) and my mum chucked them out!
Edit: WOOPS totally wrong thing, he had flags of the world and they were chucked out, he still has the footie stickers

[COYS]

Originally Posted by Matieo10

I hate Jean-Marc Bosman

That bloke has a lot to answer for.

Originally Posted by chels1905

my dad had cards similar to them from the 66 world cup ( I think it was the 66 world cup) and my mum chucked them out!
Edit: WOOPS totally wrong thing, he had flags of the world and they were chucked out, he still has the footie stickers

I remember collecting quite a few albums but these were the first. Unfortunately, I haven’t got any of them now.

[The Masterpiece]

Originally Posted by Matieo10

I just can't picture him playing with that silly looking mustache


edit, queted the wrong post but u know who I meant

[benqbiggis]

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[Vasic]

I have all Euros and World Cups from 2000.Also Caltiatori,Premier League and e.t.c.The funniest is Heskey in 2000.

[Dan]

Shiny stickers..

Used to be worth two normal ones..

[COYS]

Originally Posted by Danthomas2005

Shiny stickers..

Used to be worth two normal ones..

True.

[arsenal-watford]

holy ****

[City-Slicker]

it used to be brill trying to swap your doublers in the playground

[COYS]

Rinus Israel Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1970-71
A Feyenoord defender and Dutch international who scored the winning goal in the 1970 European Cup final, Israel was often shown wearing specs in training ground pictures, though they weren’t used on matchdays. Amazingly, he wasn’t the only bespectacled Feyenoord player of the time – team-mate Joop Van Daele, a reserve defender, wore his specs to play in and had them deliberately broken during the 1970 World Club Championship tie with Estudiantes of Argentina.

[rcdingwall]

Originally Posted by Danthomas2005

Shiny stickers..

Used to be worth two normal ones..

sometimes they were worth more than 2 depending on how rare they were in your school

[COYS]

Martin Jol, FC Den Haag Top Voetbal 77-78 & Gary Megson, Everton Soccer 80

Most of us put on a few pounds as we get older. But middle-aged weight gain can be startling when it happens to professional sports people. In Martin Jol’s case, you don't know whether to marvel at just how rigourously they must have had to train to keep all the extra timber off, or to wonder quite what he has been consuming since retirement in order to have morphed into a genial fatty. There even may be a glandular explanation – and he does seem to be sucking his cheeks in here.

Equally poignant are pictures of fresh-faced young men whom we know will become grimly pragmatic grinders when they move into management. Here’s 21-year-old Gary Megson beaming nonchalantly with his full head of copper hair, unaware that by the time this sticker album had gone on sale he'd have been sold to Sheffield Wednesday by Everton’s new manager Howard Kendall. Megson went on to have a long playing career, retiring at the age of 36, by which the time the hair was thinning and he had acquired the sallow, careworn aspect for which he is now known. It’s a cruel business.

[Black Cat Bellerby]

Originally Posted by COYS

where do you get these pictures ?

[COYS]

I get a weekly email from When Saturday Comes magazine.

[Jan]

Lol, why are most of them Dutch?

Funny pictures, btw.

[COYS]

Originally Posted by Black Cat Bellerby

where do you get these pictures ?

More here: Panini Football 84 & 85 Sticker Albums - Craig Cullen

[COYS]

David Ginola, Toulon & Eric Cantona, Auxerre Panini Football En Images 88
Through the UK TV coverage of France's matches at the 1998 World Cup, pundits expressed their amazement that the host nation had overlooked the two French players who had made a major impact on English football. That was the only World Cup that Eric Cantona or David Ginola might have played in given that France hadn't taken part in the two previous tournaments. Ginola was widely blamed for the failure to reach USA 94, not least by national coach Gérard Houllier, because his bad backpass helped set up the Bulgarian goal that enabled them to qualify at the expense of the French. But that was not the end of his international career – he went on play in four qualifiers for Euro 96, getting his last cap in a 10-0 defeat of Azerbaijan in June 1995, by which time he had joined Newcastle. Ginola was first called up while with Brest, a year after leaving Toulon, then went to win all but three of his 17 caps as a Paris St-Germain player.

Eric Cantona first came to the attention of the English media in the same season as this Panini sticker, scoring twice in France's 2-2 draw at Highbury in April 1988 that gave them a 6-4 aggregate win in a European Under-21 Championship semi-final. Unlike Ginola, he did play in a major tournament, making three appearances without scoring at Euro 92. Houllier's successor, Aimé Jacquet, made Cantona captain for the last nine of his 45 caps, but he wasn't selected again after a nine-month worldwide ban for attacking a spectator at Selhurst Park in January 1995. Otherwise he might just have kept Stéphane Guivarc'h out of the 1998 team.

[Ryan]