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[8] [9] Since then, collecting and trading stickers and cards has become part of the World Cup experience, especially for the younger generation. [10] In 2017, a 1970 World Cup Panini sticker album signed by Pelé sold for a record £10,450. [11] [12] Up until 2015, Panini produced stickers and trading cards for the UEFA Champions League.
Pelé trading card from the Mexico 70 series, Panini's first FIFA World Cup collection. Italian company Panini started to produce football cards in 1961, when the company released a collection set about Serie A. Since then, Panini has been producing football cards until consolidating as the world's leading manufacturer. [12]
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The FIFA Confederations Cup was a tournament held one year before the World Cup at the World Cup host nation(s) as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming World Cup. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country. [ 57 ]
Panini first produced a World Cup sticker album for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. [1] [2] Initiating a craze for collecting and trading stickers, UK newspaper The Guardian states, "the tradition of swapping duplicate [World Cup] stickers was a playground fixture during the 1970s and 1980s."
The company's official Premier League football collection launched in 1994 and has become, annually, the world's best selling sticker collection, the Merlin name would continue on the official collection until 2008 where it was rebranded as Topps before Panini won the contract in 2020. Merlin reached the old Panini levels, shifting 76m packets ...
The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. Four days later, the first World Cup hat-trick was achieved by Bert Patenaude of the U.S. in the Americans' 3–0 win against Paraguay. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo to become the first nation to win a ...
2024 UEFA Super Cup: Manchester City: Real Madrid: 6th 2022: 2023–24 UEFA Youth League: AZ: Olympiacos: 1st — UAFA (Arab States) Arab Club Champions Cup: Al Nassr: Competition moved to 2025 FIFA (Global) 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup: First edition Real Madrid: 1st — 2024 Challenger Cup: First edition Pachuca: 1st — 2024 Derby of the ...