FKS SOCCER STARS 1980 STICKER ALBUM FULLY COMPLETE VERY RARE

THIS IS A FKS SOCCER STARS 1980 STICKER ALBUM WITH A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF STICKERS. THE ALBUM FEATURES VARIOUS ENGLISH FIRST AND SECOND DIVISION TEAMS FROM THE 1980 SEASON AND IS MADE OF HIGH-QUALITY CARD STOCK MATERIAL.
 
THIS VINTAGE STICKER ALBUM IS AN ORIGINAL EDITION MANUFACTURED BY FKS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. IT IS A GREAT ADDITION TO ANY COLLECTION OF SPORTS MEMORABILIA AND IS PERFECT FOR FOOTBALL FANS WHO APPRECIATE THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT.
 
THIS ALBUM BELONGED TO MY BROTHER WHO WAS A FAN OF ENGLANDS ASTON VILLA TEAM AT THE TIME. ASTON VILLA WAS THE WINNERS OF ENGLANDS FIRST DIVISION IN 1980.
 
WITH THIS FULLY COMPLETE, VERY RARE STICKER ALBUM YOU WILL OWN A PIECE OF FOOTBALL HISTORY.
 
SIZE 30CM HIGH 23CM WIDE
CONDITION: COMPLETE WITH ALL STICKERS ACCOUNTED FOR! COVER IS BRIGHT AND COLOURFULL BUT HAS A FEW MINOR TEARS AND WRINKLES. ORDER FORM ON INSIDE BACK IS CUT OUT.
 
FKS PUBLISHING:
Well, FKS Publishing was a London-based rival for Panini that produced domestic and international stamp albums between the mid-60s and early 80s with notably lower production values. FKS Publishers which was actually a subsidiary of the Spanish printing company FHER of Bilbao. FKS produced football stickers and associated paraphernalia from 1966 till 1982.
 
SOCCER CARDS:
Soccer stickers have played an important role in helping fans celebrate the sport and they certainly will for years to come. It is remarkable that gluing pieces of paper into albums has grown into a billion-dollar industry and a key backbone of sports collecting.
Before modern trading cards became the predominant way of collecting, soccer stickers were all the rage around the world. After the release of a new album, fans would rush to collect and trade stickers to complete the album.
The origins of the sticker-collecting craze can be traced to the streets of Modena, Italy in 1954. In 1960 Benito and Giuseppe Panini, also known as the Panini Brothers, bought a seemingly unsellable collection of stickers and successfully sold six million of them. Panini was officially formed the year after, in 1961, and the company began manufacturing its own stickers.
The debut soccer sticker album came in the 1961-62 season. From Italy, the sticker craze spread to other soccer-obsessed countries including Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
In 1970, Panini released a World Cup trading card set and an accompanying sticker album. This established a tradition of releasing a sticker album for every World Cup tournament. The release of Euro Football 77 in the UK changed everything for Panini in the country. A few factors benefited this release, namely a popular roster and the arrival of self-adhesive stickers in the UK. Instead of having to manually glue the stickers like past albums, these came with peel-off backs with an adhesive underneath.
These factors combined with an innovative marketing campaign led to sticker collecting skyrocketing in popularity among the countrys youth. Panini followed up the success of Euro 77 with a domestic British album in 1978 including plenty of local teams.
Although trading cards are the more popular medium these days, you cant deny the tremendous impact stickers had on the collecting scene. Even today when the World Cup comes around, millions eagerly await the release of Paninis latest sticker album, a testament to a tradition that has endured for over 50 years

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