Soccer Philately - The complete resource for soccer stamps

New Issues and Database Update - May 9, 2008
There were many changes and updates to the database this week. First, keywords have been added to most of the listings in the countries beginning with A and B. All records for which I have images or the actual stamps have had keywords added. No keywords have been added for the listings in which I do not have images. The keywords added mostly relate to soccer such as: goalie, goalkeeper, player, players, net, ball, gloves, referee, cleats, corner kick, penalty, pitch or stadium. Keywords have also been added indicating the action which is taking place such as kicking, dribbling, diving, tackling, heading or throwin. I've also added names for specific players and teams such as Pele, Bobby Moore, Lothar Mattheus, Italy, Argentina, New Zealand, etc. Finally, keywords have been added indicating competitions such as logo or mascot. I've added as many keywords to each listing as I can find on the images. I've also changed the denomination values for these same records. Previously, in sets, I would list the denominations as 5Fr-400Fr. Now, for each item in the set, I've begun listing each denomination such as 5Fr, 60Fr, 125Fr, 300Fr, 400Fr.

Approximately 25 new listings have been added to the database, all in the countries of Austria and Gabon. Austria has issued or will issue many items for the 2008 European Soccer Championships and most of those have now been added to the database. I also found a source for stamp information from the country of Gabon. This allowed me to expand the Gabon listings in the database. In addition to all of the previously mentioned changes, I searched through each of the countries beginning with A or B and updated the listings with any new issues that I found. Other than Austria, I think that Bosnia and Herzegovina was the only other country where I found a new issue that was not on the database. No scans were uploaded to the website this week.

I recently discovered that there are philatelic items related to the topic of soccer of which I had not been aware. Those items are Framas or ATM labels and are produced with variable rates. Within the next couple of weeks, I intend to add them to the database. I've found some fairly complete listings for them and currently there are not very many that have been issued. I hope spend some time working on that this week as well as continuing to add new keywords to the database and update the database listing. That's about it for now. Enjoy the website and feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

RECENT ISSUES

Jun 05, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
May 16, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
May 16, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
May 16, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
May 10, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
May 05, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
Apr 19, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
Apr 18, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships
Apr 18, 2008:	Bosnia Serb, 2008 European Soccer Championships
Apr 02, 2008:	Austria, 2008 European Soccer Championships

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UPDATES
Updates (May 9, 2008) Updated database with new issues and added keywords to countries beginning with A and B.
Updates (May 1, 2008) Updated the Search Page and implemented new search algorythm.
Updates (Apr 10, 2008) Uploaded 70 scans to the website.

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