MOSCOW – Off to the side of Red Square, near Lenin’s tomb, a group of soccer fans cluster around and talk in animated voices. A deal is going down, and it’s getting serious. A Colombia fan, at the ...

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 ...

The following are two excerpts from Greg Lansdowne’s chronicling of Panini’s World Cup Stickers: Panini Football Stickers – The Official Celebration. Lansdowne and Bloomsbury Press have graciously ...

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 ...

Since its inception in 1970, the Panini World Cup sticker album has evolved from a simple collectors’ hobby inspired by one of the most famous sporting events, into a worldwide cultural and commercial ...

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 ...

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 ...