EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — World Cup 2026 is reaching its final week, with the final game being played July 19 at nowhere else but MetLife stadium right across the river from Secaucus.
As soccer frenzy has swept America, does your son or daughter — or you! — enjoy collecting the World Cup soccer star stickers, featuring the best players from around the world?
This Sunday, July 12, Panini, which makes the stickers, is hosting a massive sticker exchange inside American Dream mall. This will be for kids and fans to trade the stickers. The sticker exchange will go from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 12 and it will be held at Court A, on the first level of the mall.
You don't have to register to attend, but Panini America does ask that fans try to register in advance: Do that HERE. They will have a table to register on site Sunday.
Panini is trying to set a Guinness Book World Record for holding the largest sports sticker exchange around the world, and it is hosting other sticker exchanges simultaneously Sunday around the world, including at Rockefeller Center in New York City (South Plaza), in Mexico City and elsewhere.
Mexican soccer icon Pavel Pardo and Jaedyn Shaw, U.S. women's national team and Gotham football club player, will both be at Rockefeller Center Sunday, and Kristine Lilly, formerly of the U.S. Women's National soccer team, will be at American Dream Sunday, greeting fans. Lilly was on the U.S. women's national soccer team for 23 years and is the team's fourth highest scorer, behind Carli Lloyd (from New Jersey!), Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach.
They will also have an interactive soccer kick experience for kids and adults, and a digital photo booth where fans can create their own stickers/trading cards (put your face on a soccer trading card).
The current record stands at 2,577 one-to-one swaps, and Panini will be looking to surpass that on Sunday.
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