Before Zlatan got his face stamped there were others….

A look at some other football players that made it to the halls of philatelic fame…

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A youthful Messsi on a stamp from Rwanda

followed closely by an even more youthful Cristiano Ronaldo ( also Rwanda)

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and Messi again on a stamp from Mozambique
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…and various others showing Gunnar Nordahl,Phil-Jones, Tomas Brolin,Lothar Matthäus,Martin Dahlin, Klas Ingesson.

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…..and then there are bits and pieces of the anatomies of Dennis Irwin,Luis Figo, David Beckham,Thierry Henry and Michael Owen.
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So Zlatan is in seriously good company.