Catching up on Additions

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 I haven't been posting all the cards I've pulled out of packs or added via eBay recently, so I'll use this post as an opportunity to do so. In the soccer realm, I added a few more autos from a set I really liked from 2024, Panini Prizm Copa America. 



The Marquinhos is one of the green wave varieties that I like with the Brazil colors and the Amari'i Bell and Luis Sinisterra are not big names but both numbered to ten. I obviously like gold autos numbered that low and these were cheap.

I also got this numbered /25 tie dye auto from Panini Select of former England and Chelsea defender Ashley Cole.

I also made a bit of an investment (another cheap one) in a signed rookie from Topps Merlin of Alejandro Balde, the left back for Barcelona. This auto is numbered /99 and I think it has the potential to rise in value. 

The Eugenie Le Sommer auto above was pulled from a Topps Chrome UEFA Women's Champions league blaster. The biggest name in this post is probably former Portugal international and Real Madrid star Luis Figo. I wanted to add another big name to my soccer case and this card is numbered /99.

Lastly from the soccer world are two more cards I picked up a couple of months ago. I wanted to get in on the Bradley Barcola hype so bought a Topps Merlin rookie auto /199 from my local card shop. That same trip I also bought a Topps Chrome Euros 2024hobby box. My auto ended up being just mid, in Belgian Leandro Trossard. It was not nearly as good of a box as my son got during Christmas time when he pulled two numbered autos, including a Xavi /10.



I also bought some NFL retail two times, and both times I was lucky enough to hit some autographs. I bought two mega boxes of 2024 NFL Topps Chrome, and hit an auto in both boxes. The first is Hall of Fame receiver Andre Reed and the second was a rookie auto of Washington Commanders receiver Luke McCaffrey. 




The last auto was pulled from a mega box of Panini Zenith which is a product I have never bought before. I did pull a rookie red auto but I am not sure who Jaheim Bell is. 

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