112-page album will require 980 unique stickers to fill
Individual packets of seven stickers cost £1.25 in Britain
Soaring prices at the pumps, grocery bills on the rise, and now it seems inflation will be hitting hard the pockets of those football fans for whom no World Cup would be complete without the thrill of opening a packet of Panini stickers.
Since the Italian company’s first sticker collection at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, striving to complete the set has been an obsession for young fans around the globe with swapping of doubles and the search for rarities mandatory.
Collecting and completing the official Panini Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 album cost fans about £870. This year’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico will present the biggest challenge yet, though, and will require a considerable amount of pocket money. An an outlay of about £1,000 may be beyond even the most ardent fan of Harry Kane, Lionel Messi, Vinícius Júnior, Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland.
