Sharing Vintage Soccer or Cricket Cards

[djsatu]

My fascination for the Uruguayan 1930 National Team has gotten the better of me with my newest addition that came in this morning.

1930 Chocolatin Aguila Uruguay National Team Card (Issued in Uruguay)

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by djsatu

My fascination for the Uruguayan 1930 National Team has gotten the better of me with my newest addition that came in this morning.

1930 Chocolatin Aguila Uruguay National Team Card (Issued in Uruguay)

Where are you finding these?

Great!!

Al

[djsatu]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

Where are you finding these?

Great!!

Al

Hey Al im finding most of these on ebay. I found a seller right from Uruguay that has a bunch of older stuff.

[djsatu]

Got my Jose Nasazzi Rookie Card in today and its stunning in person. No creases, tears, dings or anything.

1930 Chocolatin Aguila? Jose Nasazzi Rookie

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by djsatu

My fascination for the Uruguayan 1930 National Team has gotten the better of me with my newest addition that came in this morning.

1930 Chocolatin Aguila Uruguay National Team Card (Issued in Uruguay)

Interesting. Those Uruguayan cards are tough as hell to find. Yours looks very similar to a set I found a few years ago from Chocolatin Mercedes from 1930 as well. Don't have the soccer cards just boxing. About 40% of the cards in the album were forgeries but most of the soccer and boxing were genuine. Same tiny size and the backs look very similar to yours:

[Jim F]

Recently picked up this 1979 Topps/Bazooka Israel soccer box with 48 unopened packs, 47 now because I opened one.

[Spartan833]

Here are some 1914-1915 Spanish cards and a 1912-13 (I think)

The Roma Forns is from 1912-1913 or the year after, I believe. 1913 is the last year that he played.

The others include team cards of Espana and Irun, as well as an action card of Armet and Belauste (played for Spain in their first Olympics)

These are some of the earliest Spanish cards that I have been able to put my hands on.

[SECollector]

Hi! These are some items I picked up today and made me excited

The first two are Tinghäll cards of Ademir and Barbosa. Tinghälls were Swedish candy cards, and these were issued in 1950. I think they are really rare.

Ademir Marques de Menezes was one of the greatest players of the time, and highest scorer in the 1950 World Cup. I think this is the only card issued depicting Ademir:



Moacir Barbosa Nascimento was the goalkeeper of the 1950 World Cup Brazil team. He was also one of the greatest, but he had a tragic fate - his name is written in history as the man who made Brazil cry. He was considered as responsible for the most tragic loose of Brazil, this against Uruguay during the 1950 final, a match better known as "el Maracanaço".



Then I found also this. An example of the Swedish Record magazine, issued in 1958 with number 37. What makes this issue special, is the fact that in this issue one of the two Swedish 1958 rookie cards of Pele was offered as a hand-cut card. It is not impossible to find this card, for example on eBay, but this was the first time I saw a complete issue in such a good state with an uncut card.



... And a closer view:



I also got a very nice example of 1965 Bergmann Franz Beckenbauer (one of the two 1965 rookie cards of this great player):



Happy hunting everyone

[Exhibitman]

Very nice!

[SECollector]

I finally got the time to scan some new arrivals. I will probably present all here, so stop me if I get boring

I also started a blog at mysoccercards.com and I will try to upload my nicest cards there, as well as add information mostly about the cards. My ambition is to update it often, with cards I acquire or new cool info about cards that are already published.

Anyway that beauty here arrived the other day:



Issued during 1974 in France, by Ageducatifs, this is Michel François Platini´s rookie card. Platini is the current president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and he is -by many- considered as one of the best, if not the best, players of all time. He was a member of the French national team that won the 1984 European Championship, a tournament in which he was the top goalscorer and voted the best player. This card illustrates a young Platini from 1974 when he was currently playing with his first team, Nancy (Association Sportive Nancy-Lorraine), a French association football club based in Nancy, Lorraine.

These cards are getting rarer and rarer to find, and finding one that has never been glued to an album is almost impossible. I love this.