One of the most popular World Cup collectables is the Panini sticker album, which features stickers for many of the 1,248 ...

The decades-old tradition returned for 2026, offering soccer fans of all ages a nostalgic and community-driven way to ...

Collecting stickers of players ahead of the World Cup is a much-loved fan tradition. This tournament's sticker book is the largest ever – this is what it takes to collect them all.

Some World Cup fans are building community by meeting up for gatherings where they trade stickers of tournament players, ...

As the World Cup unfolds, fans are finding new ways to connect with the tournament. A decades-long tradition from Europe and ...

The plan had been one packet, just to see what they looked like. Then it became two, so I could put together a five-a-side team. Then my friend Gavin, a Manchester United Women fan, sent over photos ...

NEW YORK — In Brian Sanchez's slice of Astoria, the FIFA World Cup doesn't begin with the first match. It starts weeks earlier, with the arrival of a sticker album — and a mission. It's a deceptively ...

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 ...

Irish native who switched from the music industry to the world of sport moving from Universal Music to AS in 2017. A keen runner, soccer player and now discovering the world's fastest growing sport of ...

Sticker-collecting in Argentina generates widespread, large-scale gatherings in public parks and city squares as fans meet up to swap stickers ...

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 11: A person prepares the stickers on the production line of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 stickers album at Panini factory on October 11, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by ...