If you’re sure that Panini it’s pure and simple a usually grilled sandwich made with Italian bread this article will surprise you. 

What Is Panini?

Panini is an Italian company from Modena. The company is specialized in stickers producing, collecting cards, comic books, etc. 

The company was founded by Benito and Giuseppe Panini brothers in 1961 and released its first collection of Calciatori, Italian Championship. In 1963 they were joined by Franco and Umberto Panini. Since the beginning of the 1970s the company has produced stickers dedicated to the World Cups and since the early 1980s - to European football championships.

Surprising fact

Panini stickers were printed on sticky paper in 1971-72. Originally they were made of thin cardboard and collectors had to spread them with glue before they were glued to the album.

 In the late sixties, "celline" was added to the back of the stickers - small, two-sided triangles. Thanks to them stickers could be placed in the album without using any glue.

Why do you need Panini?

Have you ever collected anything?? If yes, there is no need to explain what is «passion» and the desire to hold the whole collection as fast as possible. 

And what a fantastic remain will stay with you forever. Try it once and you will never forget how quiveringly you put every sticker into the book. 

Surprising fact

According to the statistics patents who buy the stickers to their children start co collect the stickers on the own in 74 per sent.

How much does it cost?

Panini collectors complained a lot this year because of the rising price to the World Cup 2018. There are 682 stickers in the album. If you’re lucky the minimum price to fill the book is about 111 - 682 euro.

But a maths professor Paul Harper from Cardiff has counted that World Cup 2018 Panini collection cost collectors 815 euro. He estimated a formula that shows you need to buy 967 packets or 4,832 stickers to fill the whole book. But if you’re not the only person at work to collect Panini - there is nothing to worry about. You can save about 100 euro if you change the repeated stickers with at least 10 people. Moreover, there some special web-sites where you can exchange the stickers from all over the world. (https://www.stickermanager.com/en , https://www.laststicker.com) And the third variant - use an online service on official Panini home page. There you can order the stickers you need to finish the album. The collection must be up to two years and the delivery takes about 30 days.

Surprising facts

-Everyone was touched with the story of a small fanat The World Cup 2018. He had no money to buy stickers so he drew them himself .

-The first Panini cost 10 lire (about 0.5 euro cents) and consisted of only 2 stickers.

Nowadays you can collect Panini using you mobile phone. The digital Panini can be played online. The official app is available on iOS and android.