A Lionel Messi rookie card from the 2004-05 season, issued by Panini Mega Cracks and graded a perfect 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), sold for $1.5 million through Fanatics Collect’s private sales network.<\/p>\n
This sale sets a new record for a football card, surpassing the $1.33 million paid for a 1958 Pel\u00e9 card from Alfiabolaget, in a private sale held in 2022.<\/p>\n
The transaction occurs a few days after Goldin Auctions facilitated the private sale of another copy of the same Messi card for $1.1 million, also graded a 10 by PSA.<\/p>\n
Fanatics Collect’s private sales network connects high-end buyers with cards not publicly advertised for sale, and is reserved for deals of $10,000 or more. In August, the network’s first full month of operation, $8 million was generated through “30-40 transactions,” according to a Fanatics source.<\/p>\n
According to the PSA population report, 838 copies of the Messi #71 card from that set have been graded, including 20 with a Gem-Mint 10 grade.<\/p>\n
Messi’s $1.5 million card includes diamond certification from Mike Baker Authenticated (MBA), a certification service for PSA, Beckett Grading Services (BGS), and Sportscard Guaranty Corporation (SGC), which is considered in the collecting world as an indicator of elite condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lionel Messi Rookie Card Reaches Record $1.5 Million A Lionel Messi rookie card from the 2004-05 season, issued by Panini Mega Cracks and graded a perfect 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), sold for $1.5 million through Fanatics Collect’s private sales network. This sale sets a new record for a football card, surpassing the $1.33 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8720,1427,8719,2064],"class_list":{"0":"post-34462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-football-card","9":"tag-messi","10":"tag-psa","11":"tag-sale"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}