ESPANA 82 While Italy and Paolo Rossi reigned in Spain, Panini introduced ‘shinies’ to their World Cup sticker albums for the first time. By the time the World Cup was held in Spain, Brits had gone mad for Panini’s sticker collections. The stand-out addition since the Argentina 78 album was the appearance of shiny badges, first introduced for an international tournament in Europa 80. There were also three extra foil stickers at the front of the album displaying the World Cup trophy, the tournament logo, and the mascot – Naranjito, the little orange. Every team was splashed across two pages each, apart from Cameroon, Algeria, El Salvador, Kuwait and New Zealand who only got one. Two of these teams made contrasting marks on the 1982 World Cup – Algeria’s 2–1 victory over West Germany was a fonder memory than El Salvador’s humiliating 10–1 loss to Hungary. The 19 countries given doublepage spreads were treated to a team group, 16 individual player stickers, and a shiny badge depicting their governing body logo, all featuring a smiling Naranjito in the corner of each
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foil. Teams with only a single page were still represented by a badge, team group and 16 players, two players on each sticker.
The stand-out addition was the appearance of shiny badges, first introduced for an international tournament in Europa 80. Italy was the first team in the album, perhaps an omen as to what was to come, and with three British qualifiers – for the first time since 1958 – there was great excitement in the build-up to the tournament. When Bryan Robson – who still had a perm in Espana 82 – scored
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