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Panini World Cup stickers

Picture a grown man, an accomplished professional who also happens to be a hopeless World Cup sticker completist – railing against Panini and their artificial shortage of certain bizarrely random players, skulking around swap meets for a glimpse of the elusive Danny Shittu of Nigeria. “The truth is I am sad. And I am addicted. I can’t go a day without my fix of got-got-got-got-NEED! I’m not complete until North Korea is.”  (Sid Lowe/Sports Illustrated)

(Image credit: [Delta] Christian De’Bono/Flickr through a Creative Commons license.)

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Bumper Stickers

The theft of 135,000 World Cup stickers last week in Brazil just shows the enduring appeal of these low-fi collectibles. While today’s Panini version lacks the educational bios of the past, they can still teach kids about the world. “The world is dividing into two increasingly hostile camps — those who collect World Cup stickers and those who don’t.” (Tim Vickery/FIFA World Cup Blog)