From rookie to final playing sticker, this unique collection showcases the world''s greatest footballers through their Panini sticker album appearances. Every footballing star has a ''rookie'' Panini sticker, the first time they appear as a young, hopeful and triumphant entry, being about to write their names in the history books. These stickers are among the rarest and most expensive around, including the first Lionel Messi appearance in 2004/05, Cristiano Ronaldo in his debut season at Sporting Lisbon in 2002/03 and Monaco''s 18-year-old Kylian Mbappe from the 2016/17 Panini Foot Ligue 1 set.The much-loved Panini football sticker albums have documented the rise of footballing legends from David Beckham to Neymar Jnr. The continuing editions of the book provide a perfect snapshot of the game''s heroes, season-by-season and through each international competition. Here each star is featured when they are just breaking into the team, right through to their swansong as an experienced and feted star. Smiling or sullen, permed, mulleted or crop-haired, full of excitement or displaying a ''done it all'' expression, we follow their successes and their disappointments.Some are one-club players modelling a succession of styles, others are well-travelled expensive acquisitions in their new colours. We see Gary Lineker going from a young hopeful at Leicester City to spells at Everton, Barcelona and Spurs, meanwhile becoming one of England''s stars in the 1986 and 1990 World Cup squads. Similarly, the fortunes of Maradona, Henry, Zidane, Rooney, Ibrahimovic, Messi, Cantona, Buffon, Neymar, Mbappe and others are charted in all their Panini glory with accompanying statistics and the history of each player''s career. Panini Legends provides a fascinating celebration of the game''s top players as only the famous sticker brand can. It uses the familiar poses and frames of the full colour stickers to indulge the nostalgia of those who collected the originals, to see how their heroes changed with each new season, and to track the rise of each of them to superstardom.>...

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Greg Lansdowne is a leading authority on PANINI sticker albums and the author of Stuck on You: The Rise and Fall...and Rise of Panini Stickers and Panini Football Stickers: The Official Celebration. @Panini_book

PANINI was founded in 1961 in Modena, Italy with the launch of its first Calciatori/Football Players collection. It now has subsidiaries in Europe, Latin America and the United States. In the run-up to a FIFA World Cup, PANINI produces millions of albums, selling them to over 150 territories.

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'Panini Legends, by the leading authority on the stickers, Greg Lansdowne, charts the changing appearances of football legends.' - Daily Mail

'I hope somebody gives me this for Christmas...' - Adrian Chiles, BBC Radio 5 Live

'A beautifully illustrated book' - talkSPORT

PANINI'S GREATEST FOOTBALL STICKERS STAR IN ONE AMAZING BOOK
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PANINI LEGENDS** showcases in sticker form 85 of the most-celebrated players in men's and women's football. Icons like Pelé, Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer and Bobby Moore are present, of course, but they share the limelight with modern stars such as Lionel Messi, Marta, Kylian Mbappé, Cristiano Ronaldo and Alexia Putellas.

Written by respected sticker authority Greg Lansdowne, the book features stickers from a host of domestic leagues and all the major international tournaments, expertly selected from over 60 years' worth of albums.

• Which players made the PANINI album but didn't play?
• Who never missed a season as a sticker?
• Whose rookie - a player's first sticker - is most sought after?

Inside the book:

• More than 900 iconic PANINI stickers from the domestic and international football competitions
• Extended career profiles of the greatest players to grace PANINI albums
• PANINI stickers showing kits of some of world's most famous football teams

Zusammenfassung
Written by respected sticker authority Greg Lansdowne, the book features stickers from a host of domestic leagues and all the major international tournaments, expertly selected from over 60 years' worth of albums.

Inhalt

Introduction
How to Collect
Diego Maradona
Kenny Dalglish
Gary Lineker
Kevin Keegan
David Beckham
Paul Gascoigne
Gareth Bale
Johan Cruyff
Megan Rapinoe
Karim Benzema
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Eric Cantona
Ruud Gullit
George Weah
Lothar Matthäus
Michael Laudrup
Ronaldo
Didier Drogba
Marta
Romário
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ray Wilkins
Robert Lewandowski
Kylian Mbappé
Ronaldinho
Luís Figo
Hidetoshi Nakata
Jürgen Klinsmann
Neymar Júnior
Roberto Baggio
Didier Deschamps
Roger Milla
Paolo Rossi
Bobby Charlton
Glenn Hoddle
Caroline Graham Hansen
Pelé
Tim Cahill
Oliver Kahn
Bobby Moore
Ally McCoist
Olivier Giroud
Erling Haaland
Franco Baresi
Kevin De Bruyne
Peter Shilton
Roy Keane
Alexia Putellas
Bryan Robson
Pernille Harder
George Best
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Alessandro Del Piero
Ellen White
Liam Brady
Peter Schmeichel
Dino Zoff
'Jay-Jay' Okocha
Sergio Ramos
Mohamed Salah
Trevor Francis
Gianluigi Buffon
John Barnes
Miroslav Klose
Samuel Eto'o
Son Heung-min
Marco Van Basten
Luka Modric
Pep Guardiola
Harry Kane
Paolo Maldini
Michel Platini
Bebeto
Fabien Barthez
Lionel Messi
Thierry Henry
Andrés Iniesta
Dennis Bergkamp
Wayne Rooney
Francesco Totti
Antoine Griezmann
Jean-Pierre Papin
Gianfranco Zola
Zinedine Zidane
Franz Beckenbauer
Gianluca Vialli

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