WORLD CUP 2018 NATION PRESENTATION: DENMARK

NICKNAME: The Red-White

MANAGER: Age Hareide

MOST CAPS: Peter Schmeichel- 129 caps from 1987 to 2001

TOP SCORERS: Poul Nielsen- 52 goals from 1910 to 1925 and Jon Dahl Tomasson- 52 goals from 1997 to 2010

HOST NATION: -

WORLD CUP RECORD: 5th World Cup for Denmark. Their first WC was in 1986.

BEST RESULT: Their best result is quarter-final from 1998. They won second place in a group with France, South Africa and Saudi Arabia. They won first match against Arabia, drawn with South Africa and lost from France. In round of 16 Denmark faced Nigeria and made big win 4-1. In exciting quarter-final match against Brazil they lost 3-2.

WORLD CUP 2018 NATION PRESENTATION: PERU

NICKNAME: The White and Red

MANAGER: Ricardo Gareca

MOST CAPS: Roberto Palacios- 128 caps from 1992 to 2012

TOP SCORER: Paolo Guerrero- 32 goals from 2004

HOST NATION: -

WORLD CUP RECORD: Peru played on first World Cup in 1930. This will be their 5th WC final, first since 1982.

BEST RESULT: Their best result is 7th place from all nations in 1970. In group stage they won first two matches against Bulgaria and Marocco while they lost in 3rd from West Germany. In first knock-out round Peru lost from Brazil, future champion (4-2).

WORLD CUP 2018 NATION PRESENTATION: AUSTRALIA

NICKNAME: Socceroos

MANAGER: Bert van Marwijk

MOST CAPS: Mark Schwarzer- 109 caps from 1993 to 2013

TOP SCORER: Tim Cahill- 50 goals from 2004. Since he is still active player he could also become a most capped player because he has only 5 caps less then Schwarzer.

HOST NATION: -

WORLD CUP RECORD: This will be 5th WC for Australia, first one in 1974.

BEST RESULT: Their best result comes from 2006. In group stage with Brazil, Croatia and Japan they finished second with 4 points. They had one win against Japan and draw with Croatia. In round of 16 they lost from future champion Italy. Totti scored last minute penalty which took Italy to next stage.

WORLD CUP 2018 NATION PRESENTATION: FRANCE

NICKNAME: The Bluse

MANAGER: Didier Deschamps

MOST CAPS: Lilian Thuram- 142 caps from 1994 to 2008

TOP SCORER: Thierry Henry- 51 goals from 1997 to 2010

HOST NATION: Twice. In 1938 and 1998.

WORLD CUP RECORD: They participated on 15 WC finals, including this. They played on first WC in 1930. 

  

BEST RESULT: Their best result is title from 1998 on their home field. They also have one second place in 2006 and third place from 1958 and 1986. In 1998 they won all three matches in group stage against South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Denmark. In konck-out stage France was better then Paraguay (after extra time), Italy (PKs), Croatia and Brazil in final.

WORLD CUP 2018 NATION PRESENTATION: IRAN

NICKNAME: Team Melli

MANAGER: Carlos Queiroz

MOST CAPS: Javad Nekounam- 151 caps from 2000 to 2015

TOP SCORER: Ali Daei- 109 goals from 1993 to 2006

HOST NATION: -

WORLD CUP RECORD: 5th World Cup for Iran. First one was back in 1978. 

 

BEST RESULT: On all previous WCs they finished last in their group. Here is Iran from their first WC 1978. At that WC they drawn with Scotland and lost from Netherlands and Peru. As you know they are most known from 1998 WC because of their stickers from Panini album.

PANINI MEXICO 1986- YUGOSLAVIAN EDITION

Yugoslavian edition of Mexico 1986 has some misprinted stickers made by “Decje Novine“ (official Panini distributor in former Yugoslavia). Error in printing is that some player names are written in the middle of the sticker and not on the bottom. All Spain stickers are misprinted. Also some of the Bulgarian, Uruguay and Poland stickers have the same error. Here you can see all stickers with that error.

BULGARIA

SPAIN

URUGUAY

POLAND