BARCELONA
EL MUNDO DEPORTIVO PROMOTION

El Mundo Deportivo is a Spanish newspaper which is distributed throughout Spain but it is published in Barcelona, the company approached Corinthian to produce some special figures to be given away with their newspaper.

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From early October 2004, anyone who purchased the El Mundo Deportivo newspaper was also able to purchase one of the 6 limited edition Barcelona figures, with each figure being in a Barcelona style window box. The figure available for purchase was changed each week and there was also a Barcelona display stand produced to accompany the set.

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The 6 Barcelona players in this promotion are Ronaldinho, Carles Puyol, Henrik Larsson, Victor Valdes, Ludovic Giuly and Juliano Belletti, all in Barcelona 2004/05 home kit. The initial plan was to have a full set of 12 produced, the display stand actually has all 12 slots but they are covered over. The 6 which were cancelled are Xavi, Deco, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Edmilson, Samuel Eto'o and Rafael Marquez.

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An often over looked set but they are very rare to find, given the difficulty in obtaining them,

I feel they would have been more desirable had they been in a Barcelona style blister pack, but that aside they are still a superb set and the display stand can also be very difficult to find.

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The figures came in a Barcelona window box, there was no collector card produced but the backing card inside the box did have a fact file for each player.