Card of the Day - 2023-12-23

Panini Euro Football
Figurine Panini [trade/commercial : O/S : Italy] "Evro Fudbal 1976-77" - Yugoslavian edition (1976) 99/288 - PAP-47

So this was a bit of a teaser, but it relates to the first ever goal scored in a World Cup, and the first to be put in the goal under snowy conditions, which is even odder as the match was in July - July 13th 1930. However it was being played in Montevideo, in Uruguay. The scorer was Lucien Laurent, of France, who had been born in December 1907. He had also been on the squad for the French football team who competed at the Olympic Games in 1928, but he did not get a chance to play.

It seems that his first team was Cercle Athletique de Paris, who he joined in 1921, but they were a good team, very professional without being actually so. They were also quite an old team, being founded in 1896.

He left them in 1930 and joined the team on this card, Sochaux, which is now known as FC Sochaux-Montbeliard, Montbeliard being the region of France where it is sited And at that time it was actually the works football team for the car manufacturer Peugeot - where he also worked

Now this is quite an unusual card, and probably not the back you expected to see,  because this in a different language to the usual cards you come across, but also it is in a completely different format, you can see that at the Football Cartophilic Exchange /EVF76. Also on that page you can see the album, which is the same basic design but translated to Yugoslavian. 

If you look at the usual album you will find out something else, and that is that Yugoslavia is not a country which appears on the inner back page where all the variant versions are listed, these being Italy, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, nor on the back cover where Denmark is added as well.