2014 WORLD CUP
FRANCE
24 FIGURE TEAM PACK

With the 2014 World Cup on the horizon, SoccerStarz released their range of football figures, which included a range of blisters, team packs and also a foil bag release.

 

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The France 24 figure team pack includes 24 SoccerStarz figures in France home kit, all on a Gold base, with collector cards included however no certificate of authenticity was included and no production volume was revealed.

 

 

Of the 24 figures included many had already been released previously for their respective clubs, we have a quartet from Arsenal with Abou Diaby Bacary Sagna, Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud, while North London rivals see Tottenham Hotspurs keeper Hugo Lloris released in national kit.

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Staying in the English Premier League we have Patrice Evra from Manchester United, local rivals Manchester City have Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy, with Newcastle united having 3 included, Mousa Sissoko, Mathieu Debuchy and Yohan Cabaye.

 

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There is a duo from Real Madrid as we see Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema and for PSG we have Blaise Matuidi, Jeremy Menze and Mamadou Sakho, with Eliaquim Mangala being from FC Porto and Geoffrey Kondogbia for Monaco.

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The remaining are all first time releases, those being Franck Ribery who would later be released for Bayern Munich, Paul Pogba who we would see in the colours of Man u further into the collection, Loic Remy who would get just one more release which would be for Chelsea and Steve Mandanda who would feature for Crystal Palace later in the collection.

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Completing the pack line up is Mathieu Valbuena and Adil Rami, both figures would never be released again by SoccerStarz. 

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The 4 figures which did not feature in either of the team packs are Christophe Jallet, Hatem Ben Arfa, Younnes Kaboul and Dmitri Payet, however all but Kaboul would feature in the 4 pack range.