1992 Score Football - Italy

 

Ciao amici appassionati di carte collezionabili!!

I came across this pack of football cards at one of the Dollar stores. Don't remember which

denomination of Dollar store, but was happy to find this random pack anyway.

I know nothing about soccer really. I have had a lot of foreign friends in the past and they

all like soccer (football) even if they weren't really sports fans. I guess it was just a 

somewhat normal thing to keep up with. 

Anyhoo, I just like cards, and I have an affinity about learning about different cultures,

even if it is only from one area of culture like with sports.

Since I don't know anything about the players; I'll focus on the visuals.  The card design looks

like a sort of cross between Score '92 baseball and football a little. I doesn't actually

mirror those sets, but seems like it fits in pretty well stylistically.

From the cards I pulled I noticed that they had a good assortment of vertical and horizontal 

action shots.

 

 

The best actions shots are the ones that feature two opposing players and the ball in the frame. Don't quite have that in these pics, but they are cool shots anyway.

The single shot ones always look like it might come from pre-game warmups or something.

Kind of a necessity sometimes if you're on a time crunch.

 

At least this one has a ref in it. Looks like real game action.

Closely cropped photo like this could be either posed or in-game action.

Even though there were a lot of horizontal action shots, my favorite action card from this pack

was this one of Mazinho. I think this is Portuguese for "Mallet". I guess he's like the hammer of the team. 

I really have no idea what's actually going on in this pic, but I looks like he's taking out at least one ref in frustration. 

Here is the back of that card for reference.

Here is a team captain card.

Here's the back.  A good idea to put the team photo on the back of the Captain's card.

And lastly... a cartoon depiction of Moreno Mannini.

Apparently he won the 1991 National Championship.

I somehow only got 14 instead of 15 cards. Kind of sucks, but at least I got a couple of cool ones for the "action shot" collection. I really wish cartoon cards were more prevalent in packs these days.

Thanks for reading.