Showing posts with label Alexi Lalas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexi Lalas. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2014

Cereal boxes

After Post Cereals issued cereal boxes with Alex Morgan and Omar Gonzalez, I decided to do some research on older cereal boxes that may have been issued:
1994 Kellogg's Raisin Bran - MLS Soccer Slam

1997 Kellogg's Raisin Bran
Marco Etcheverry (DC United) - - Carlos Valderrama (Tampa Bay Mutiny)

1996 Kellogg's - Alexi Lalas (KC Wizards) and Tab Ramos (MetroStars)
sold on ebay for $10.00

In 1996 Kellogg's featured several players for the inaugural season and continued to do so over several years. In 2002 Kellogg launched a special edition of it's Frosted Flakes cereal featuring the Kansas City Wizards following their 2000 MLS Cup Championship and the San Jose Earthquakes following their 2001 MLS Cup championship..




In 1999 Wheaties, famous for all of the athletes they feature on their boxes joined the women's soccer craze honoring members of the US Women's National team following the US Women's World Cup held in the US in 1999

2004 Taylor Twellman - Waffle Crisp

In 2004 Post issued 4 boxes featuring Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution), Landon Donovan (San Jose Earthquakes), Chris Armas (Chicago Fire) and Freddy Adu (DC United) on boxes of Alpha-bits, Waffle Crisp, Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles, Honeycomb, Strawberry Blast Honeycomb, Oreo O's, Golden Crisp and Marshmallow Alpha-bits. Each box offered a free footbag (hacky sack) with the MLS logo.  Post is a product of Kraft foods, which became an official sponsor of the MLS in 2004.


2012 Quaker's Life cereal box featured Chicago Fire's Austin Berry. As sponsor of the Chicago Fire Quaker took it upon themselves to help promote Berry as the selection for 2012 MLS Rookie of the Year, which he was awarded...

1999 Quaker - US Soccer Golden Goals, featuring the 1999 US Women's World Championship team.
updated 2014.12.23

Thursday, March 29, 2012

1999 - Alexi Lalas - Kansas City Wizards

Alexi Lalas - The Red Menace - Kansas City Wizards

Promotional min-poster, 4 x 6", sent to dealers directly from the manufacturer, for the purpose of display...
Alexi Lalas played one season in Kansas City, 1999, playing in 30 games. I purchased this item not so much for Lalas, but for the uniform.  Jeff Foxworthy has said "Have you ever seen people so ugly, you have to get someone to verify it." This uniform fits that sentiment. You will also ask someone else "did you believe what they were wearing?" Although not the worst uniform the Wizards have worm, but the matching shorts and socks do not help.



You can check out other Wizards uniforms at mlsarchives.

Monday, August 15, 2011

World Cup USA94 - Upper Deck Cards


Fernando Clavivo - Cle Kooiman

Mike Lapper - Mike Sorber

Peter Vermes - Checklist

Mark Chung - Checklist

Alexi Lalas - Janusz Michallik

Upper Deck produced trading cards for the 1994 World Cup entitled "Contenders", issued in sets that provided text in English/Spanish, English/Japanese, English/German, English/Italian. The sets differed in the number of players profiled from each country such that the English/Spanish version had 28 US members, while the other sets only had 17 US members...
The US/Spanish set
1 Tony Meola
2 Des Armstrong
3 Marcelo Balboa
4 Fernando Clavijo
5 John Doyle
6 Alexi Lalas
7 Thomas Dooley
8 John Harkes
9 Tab Ramos
10 Hugo Perez
11 Cobi Jones
12 Chris Henderson
13 Roy Wegerle
14 Eric Wynalda
15 Cle Kooiman
16 Brad Friedel
17 Ernie Stewart
18 Jeff Agoos
19 Paul Caligiuri
20 Mark Chung
21 Frank Clopas
22 Dominic Kinnear
23 Janusz Michallik
24 Joe-Max Moore
25 Brian Quinn
26 Mike Sorber
27 Peter Vermes
28 Mike Lapper

The US Contenders set (280 base cards) also featured cards of the US Women's National team, Bora's Fantasy Team (Walmart only), World Cup Superstars, Walter Ioos Portraits, Stand Out Performers, Hot Shots, Player of the Year, Road to the Finals, Golden Boots, Future Stars and Honorary Captains - Bill Clinton, Drew Bledsoe, Mickey Mantle, Calbert Cheaney, Dan Marino, Michael Jordan, Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, Russell Maryland, Joe Montana...