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.>...

Autorentext

Greg Lansdowne

Klappentext

'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

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

  Honourable Mentions