{"id":34585,"date":"2025-09-15T05:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/messi-rookie-card-reaches-record-price-of-1-5-million\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:08:58","slug":"messi-rookie-card-reaches-record-price-of-1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/messi-rookie-card-reaches-record-price-of-1-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi: Rookie Card Reaches Record Price of $1.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lionel Messi Rookie Card Reaches Record Price<\/h2>\n\n\nA Lionel Messi rookie card from the 2004-05 Panini Mega Cracks season, graded a perfect 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), sold for $1.5 million through Fanatics Collect&#8217;s private sales network.\n\nAcquir, a high-end private sales marketplace founded at the end of 2023, represented the seller of the card.\n\nThis amount exceeds the $1.33 million paid for a 1958 Pel\u00e9 card in a private sale in 2022, setting a new record for a soccer card.\n\nThe sale comes a few days after Goldin Auctions facilitated a private sale of $1.1 million for another copy of Messi&#8217;s card, also graded 10 by PSA.\n\nFanatics Collect&#8217;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.\n\nIn August, its first full month of operation, the network generated $8 million in &#8220;30-40 transactions,&#8221; according to a source at Fanatics.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0914%2Fr1545543_641x360_16%2D9.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAccording to its population report, PSA has graded 838 copies of Messi&#8217;s No. 71 card from that set, including 20 with the Gem-Mint 10 grade.\n\nMessi&#8217;s $1.5 million card includes a Diamond certification from Mike Baker Authenticated, a certification service for PSA, Beckett Grading Services, and Sportscard Guaranty Corporation, considered in collecting as an indicator of elite condition.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi Rookie Card Reaches Record Price A Lionel Messi rookie card from the 2004-05 Panini Mega Cracks season, graded a perfect 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), sold for $1.5 million through Fanatics Collect&#8217;s private sales network. Acquir, a high-end private sales marketplace founded at the end of 2023, represented the seller of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1427,8737,8719,8738],"class_list":{"0":"post-34585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-messi","9":"tag-private-sale","10":"tag-psa","11":"tag-trading-card"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585","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=34585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}