FIFA World Cup 2002 Korea/Japan

About this collection

The official Panini sticker collection for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan officially features 576 stickers. Celebrating the first-ever World Cup on Asian soil, the album stands out with a colorful, futuristic design and dedicates a massive opening section to the 20 ultra-modern stadiums across both host nations. Visual highlights of the series include the elegant, holographically glittering special stickers for the association crests, the official emblem, and the tournament mascots. To keep the album compact, the rosters for Russia, Ecuador, and Tunisia were shortened to just a single page each. Collector's Note: This series is infamous for the "Ireland Dilemma": due to licensing delays, the Irish team was entirely missing from the first German sticker packs and was only supplied in later batches. Furthermore, it is a treasure hunt for variation collectors, as stickers exist with blue backs (Europe), black backs (North America), and as thinner, matte variants printed locally in Brazil.

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