French Promo Cards

A few months ago I made a fairly large trade with a good friend (Hi Alexandre!). We both had played MLB Showdown many years ago and he was having nostalgia come over him. Knowing I have wayyy more Showdown cards than anyone needs at this point in their life we decided to make a nice swap.

I received quite a large lot of Football Champions cards. Most of which were French cards along with some French scarves (Montpellier, Auxere, St. Etienne) and the beginning of my 2004/2005 Italian Sets. The most important part of the trade was acquiring French Promos.

Below are the cards I received:

Jesper

I don't really know why I enjoy Jesper Gronkjaer, but I do. I would always transfer him to whatever club I was managing in FIFA. Maybe I had an affinity for Danish players? More than likely I really just enjoyed his name.

His football champions card however is pretty pedestrian. At 116 points he isn't the most cost effective player. Sure his shot is an 8 but really that's about it. Star power should be higher, at least a 10.

Adidas Promos

I've not updated in quite some time (par for the course I guess). However I've acquired quite a few new Football Champions cards.

As you (does anyone read this?) may have guessed by the title I finally it my Adidas Italian Promos. I post in the group for Football Champions on Facebook and was linked to them off eBay. In a nice drunken haze I purchased both Trezeguet and Del Piero without even looking at the prices. $40 and two weeks later I had my cards. Honestly I'm not the biggest Trez fan, however the Del Piero is the sexiest card ever. Now they currently sit in a binder which I look through once a month, maybe. Worthy purchase....of course!
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On another note, I've found two places that people actively trade for Football Champions cards. The first is a soccer card board:

http://s13.zetaboards.com/Football_Cards/topic/6847508/1/

The second is a group on Facebook simply titled "Football Champions". The group page's main image is the 2001-2002 Italian starter set. The only issue for the group is its entirely in Italian. However it's 2012 and with translators all over the place, it's a bit easier to try and trade.

I'll post more this time now that my phone can blog.

RIP

You left this world too soon.

team Selection

I've never really put together a team in Football Champions. Honestly, I have no idea where I'd start. Actually, scratch that, I would get a solid core up the middle. Give me me a top drawer centre back, midfielder, and a killer forward.

I figure this would be the place to go over any ideas/team formations I'd have when building a team. All the potential strategies and players to pick from will give more interaction between myself and....uhhh yeah, myself.

However, someone I know from prior sport card games (sup MLB Showdown) wrote a great piece on his website. It's worth the read, I promise.

Click here to read.

David

Monsieur Ginola.

2001/2002 English Rules

As the title of this post says, below is a link to the rules for the first year of English Football Champions Rules. Any questions, post a comment or shoot me an email.

2001/2002 English Rules.