This was the odd man out, the only set not to have been issued in March, but our man, Didier Yves Drogba Tebily, fits the bill nicely, as he was born, at Abidjan, in the beautiful Ivory Coast, on the 11th of March, 1978.
Quite a lengthy name for this set - and a lengthy set too, with almost six hundred and fifty stickers!
But wait, because you can actually also get every card with a blue back, which says, right at the bottom, "Made in Brazil", instead of our "Made in Italy".
And that is not all, for there are twenty four black back cards which are billed as "Tournament Tracker" cards, which were used to complete the wall-chart. They fitted around the edge, in the black spaces with the large initials, whilst in the middle were spaces for you to write in the winning teams from the second round matches onwards. However the wall-chart seems to have only had a very limited run, and few of them seem to have more than a handful of stickers stuck into place.
To save you counting, all that makes a total of almost thirteen hundred cards, if you want to "collect them all".... And an awful lot of empty packets, as there were only eight stickers in each!
To the football, the final was played in Johannesburg, at "Soccer City", and it saw Spain beat the Netherlands by scoring one goal in extra time. Our man actually captained his home team, Ivory Coast, but they only came seventeenth.