1994
1994 World Cup ~ Swiss Edition
Upper Deck / McDonalds
Switzerland
56 cards
Andreas Henning has very kindly e-mailed most of the checklist for this collection, and two versions of two of the cards...
You recently asked for support to provide more info for the McDonalds Upper Deck set of World Cup 1994 cards.
I’m glad I can provide checklist and pictures.
I don’t have #12 nor the last 4 cards of the set, but I am pretty much sure #53 - #56 are German players' Hologram cards.
All cards are the same as in the regular 1994 (Contender) set – the only difference is with the hologram logo. It is showing the McDonalds logo instead of the Upper Deck logo.
Cards were only available in Switzerland at McDonalds with 3 cards per pack. Bi-lingual text in French and German. An album should exist, but I’ve never came across one.
Andreas has been collecting cards and stickers for many years and has a very interesting website - Trading Cards & Stickers.
UPDATE (05-12-2017 17:25): Thanks to Harry for providing the names of the players featured on the hologram cards and some of the photos. This checklist is finally complete!UPDATE (04-03-2023 14:17): I've just learned that there are two different versions of the McDonalds cards - French/German and Italian/German and would you believe I've already got examples of both illustrated with this checklist. The Marco van Basten card is the Italian/German version and the Andoni Zubizaretta card is French/German.
UPDATE (06-03-2023 15:39): herbie22222 has provided scans of both versions of card number 7 (Jorginho). The French/Dutch card is on the left and the Italian/German card on the right. The strange thing is the word 'career' is in French and German on the card on the left but the biography is in Dutch. I don't have a problem with French/German/Italian languages as all three are official languages of Switzerland. I've no idea where the Dutch part comes from. Really strange. You can see some of the cards available for sale here - Swiss+McDoanlds+Edition.
1994 World Cup ~ Swiss Edition - French/Dutch
1994 World Cup ~ Swiss Edition - Italian/German
1. Diego Simeone (Argentina)
2. Oscar Ruggeri (Argentina)
3. Enzo Scifo (Belgium)
4. Marc Degrujse (Belgium)
5. Marco Etcheverry (Bolivia)
6. Branco (Brazil)
7. Jorginho (Brazil)
8. Mauro Silva (Brazil)
9. Rai (Brazil)
10. François Omam-Biyik (Cameroon)
11. Carlos Valderrama (Columbia)
12. Faustino Asprilla (Colombia) - added 23-11-2017 - thanks to Harry
13. Efstratos Apostolakis (Greece)
14. Anastasios Mitropoulos (Greece)
15. Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands)
16. Marco van Basten (Netherlands)
17. Ronald Koeman (Netherlands)
18. Pat Bonner (Ireland)
19. Steve Staunton (Irland)
20. Dino Baggio (Italy)
21. Franco Baresi (Italy)
22. Gianluca Vialli (Italy)
23. Giuseppe Signori (Italy)
24. Paolo Maldini (Italy)
25. Hugo Sanchez (Mexico)
26. Jorge Campos (Mexico)
27. Mustafa El Haddaoui (Morocco)
28. Daniel Amokachi (Nigeria)
29. Erik Mykland (Norway)
30. Erik Thorstvedt (Norway)
31. Florin Raducioiu (Romania)
32. Gheorghe Hagi (Romania)
33. Andrei Ivanov (Russia)
34. Igor Shalimov (Russia)
35. Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain)
36. Jose Maria Baquero (Spain)
37. Martin Dahlin (Sweden)
38. Tomas Brolin (Sweden)
39. Adrian Knup (Helvetia)
40. Alain Geiger (Helvetia)
41. Alain Sutter (Helvetia)
42. Ciriaco Sforza (Helvetia) – Future Stars
43. Dominique Herr (Helvetia)
44. Georges Bregy (Helvetia)
45. Marc Hottiger (Helvetia)
46. Marco Pascolo (Helvetia)
47. Gu Sang-Bum (Korea)
48. Eric Wynalda (U.S.A.)
49. Tom Dooley (U.S.A.)
50. Tony Meola (U.S.A.)
51. Stephane Chapuisat (Helvetia) – Golden Boots
52. Romario (Brazil) – Golden Boots
53. Bebeto (Brazil) - Hologram - added 05-12-2017 - thanks to Harry
54. Roberto Baggio (Italy) - Hologram - added 05-12-2017 - thanks to Harry
55. Ruud Gullit (Netherlands) - Hologram - added 05-12-2017 - thanks to Harry
56. Emilio Butragueno (Spain) - Hologram - added 05-12-2017 - thanks to Harry
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