16 Soccer Postcards

By: Daryl | May 21st, 2009

I was reading Football Filter recently (which I recommend, by the way) and came across a link to this Flickr pool devoted to soccer postcards.

The pool does exactly what it says on the box, and currently consists of 275 images of football related postcards. Some are images of stadiums, some of players, some are part of an advertising campaign. Some are completely random.

I’ve selected sixteen of my faves (was going to be ten, but there were too many to choose from) below…

The Camp Nou looking nice and full.

Soccer ball structure in Da Lian City, China.

The San Siro. Which – according to this postcard – only has one tenant.

Home ground of Italian Serie C1 club Potenza.

A fantastic looking Championship stadium.

(note to self: delete that if they stay up)

A DirecTV (US satelite TV provider) advertising postcard aimed at Spanish speaking potential customers, promising “more futbol than football.”

HSV Hamburg’s HSH Nordbank Arena, in various stages of construction.

La Bombonera, home of Boca Juniors of course.

You don’t need me to tell you who this is.

Olympic Staium in Munich. After a visit from Spiderman

Photogrpah of Ollie Kahn.

Jari Litmanen reading the paper.

And Jari Litmanen hosting a dinner party for soccer balls, I think. There are a LOT of Jari Litmanen postcards in this Flickr pool by the way.

First I thought this Italian postcard was promoting a televised Barca vs Real El Clasico from 2006. But the date (January 5th 2006) doesn’t match up, and I think it’s actually promoting a DVD. So maybe Ronaldinho and Zidane actually had a high noon style shootout in 2006. In which case I’m assuming Ronaldinho lost.