The Qatar 2022 World Cup figures album has been released and there is a conspicuous absence from the Argentine national team

There are less than 100 days to go until the World Cup in Qatar 2022. And the wait is desperate. However, the fans of the Argentine national team led by Lionel Messi already have a little distraction, so much so that the weeks that have to be canceled until the coveted November 20 run by much faster. The sticker albumthat object of desire of all collectors, especially the little ones, which allows them to play and put together the 32 teams that will participate in the end-of-year event.

Sure. Posted complaints about the album are also displayed. It is that the fans are always attentive to the historical errors that the people of Panini, the masters and lords of the cards, commit involuntarily. There is always a player missing or there is always one that is not among those chosen by the selectors.

In this case, with the list of 26 that FIFA has approved following the effects of the pandemic, it seems hard to go wrong. But an injury can always appear, like that of Jesús Corona, from Mexico, which alters the plans of the editorial staff.

In the Argentine national team, in this case, 18 players were chosen to collect. I am Emiliano Martínez, Franco Armani, Marcos Acuña, Nicolás Otamendi, Germán Pezzella, Cristian Cuti Romero, Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Paredes, Ángel Di María, Gio Lo Celso, Guido Rodríguez, Julián Álvarez, Joaquín Correa, Alejandro Papu Gómez, and Lionel Messi. Obviously they cannot be missing because they are all in Scaloni’s plans.

However, what is striking are the absences. And one of the most sensitive is Nicola Tagliaficoone fighting for a place among the defensive starters with Marcos Acuña, who this Friday distinguished himself by scoring a goal for his new team, Olympique de Lyon, in the French league.

Who are the others who are not? Gonzalo Montiel, Juan Foyth, Marcos Senesi, Ángel Correa, Exequiel Palacios, Lisandro Martínez, Alexis Mac Allister, Gerónimo Rulli and Paulo Dybala. Among all these, surely, there will be one that will be left out. It will be necessary to see if Scaloni agrees with the Panini selectors.

How much do the figurines that have arrived on the market in the last few hours cost? Each package is worth the not so modest sum of 150 pesos. The complete collection has 638 stickers, of which 50 will be a special version. To complete it, in the event that you do not change or enter the famous bartering clubs, you would need to invest about 90 thousand pesos.

The empire of cloths

Italian publisher Panini is the only official licensee of the FIFA World Cup stickers and its World Cup stickers are sold in approximately 100 countries.

The company prints stickers in factories in Europe, Brazil and Argentina and has already worked in 13 different world championships, including Mexico 70 being the first. Before, in the sixties, Panini had only worked with the Italian league.