After 47 years of Panini holding the rights to distribute the official Euros sticker book, this year the contract has gone to Topps - but it doesn't have permission to include all the players. Italian ...

Panini, the football sticker firm behind the playground craze of the 1970s and 80s, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. How did it survive tabloid warfare, a thieving tycoon's clutches and ...

PANINI football stickers were so big in the 80s that even the tooth fairy got involved. This reporter can recall vividly the thrill of lifting up the pillow to find that he had been left two yellow ...

This is an excerpt from Greg Lansdowne’s chronicling of Panini’s World Cup Stickers: Panini Football Stickers – The Official Celebration. Lansdowne and Bloomsbury Press have graciously allowed us to ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 20, 2022. The original video can be viewed here. Before Argentina won the World Cup last fall, before all manner of "Oles" and "Allezs" ...

Even before the first ball is kicked, Russia 2018 is shaping up to be more popular in the United States than any previous World Cup according to at least one metric: the sale of Panini stickers. For ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 20, 2022. It is said the World Cup unofficially kicks off when the Italian collectable company "Panini" releases its sticker album for the ...

A copy of the first ever Panini World Cup sticker album is going up for sale. The album came out in 1970 and features stickers and cards of footballing legends like England's Bobby Charlton, Germany's ...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Panini World Cup sticker albums, a cultural, soccer tradition that spans more than 50 years, attracting and creating millions of soccer fans around the globe. Since ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – When Landon Donovan was a kid, every Christmas he would get a box of Panini soccer stickers. He’d sort through the stickers, filling in gaps in his album and getting to see ...

Panini, the football sticker firm behind the playground craze of the 1970s and 80s, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. How did it survive tabloid warfare, a thieving tycoon's clutches and ...