Man I love to see this as I have transitioned from collecting/trading basketball & baseball to being completely focused on soccer 👍👍. Every show I go to and ask if they have soccer it’s either “just sold it all” or “your the 10th person to ask, I don’t have any soccer but need to get into it!”
It is so strange though to wrap your head around the fact there is no league playoff - and even though champions league is kinda like it, the teams earn their berths basically for their accomplishments the prior season so it's not even the same team qualifying vs team ends up playing (different players signed/left). American sport brain no understand.
I'm from Europe and a life long football fan, so I can clarify the free agency thing a bit: In soccer the concept of free agency is pretty vague. Most players get bought by teams, meaning: Club A pays Club B x amount of money for the rights to sign a player from Club B. Player swaps or trades happen sometimes, but they are quite rare. There are also certain players who wait until their contract runs out to sign with a new team, which is oftend called a 'free transfer' in football terms, but is the equivalent of a free agency signing in American sports. Clubs cant buy players all year round, only in 'transfer windows' which are in the summer and in the winter.
Great job, Chris. An extensive wealth of knowledge once again. I too myself am still learning the soccer market. I think the thing that entices me the most is the international popularity and hopefully card value will continue to grow. In America our peeps STILL have not caught up with the popularity of soccer and are missing out. Big Time. I love World Cup and seeing the countries compete. So much passion. Investment stand point, I only invest in Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, OG Ronaldo and Beckham based on popularity. I’m still learning the newer guys.
Those 4 players are solid but there are so many more GOATs that are huge in countries where football (soccer) is the main sport, i'd start by googling the "FIFA 100" Pele's list of the top 125 retired players to ever play. There are many more that don't grace that list too.
Also to clarify the ‘Champions League’ which as you mentioned is the elite level continental competition for the top European clubs, used to be called the ‘European Cup’ before being rebranded. You will sometimes hear people still use the old term European Cup though so just know they are referring to the Champions League when saying that. BTW Dempsey in his peak at Fulham was much better than any level Pulisic has reached so far, however Pulisic does have potential if he can stay injury free and get a consistant run of games. Prime Dempsey was almost scoring a goal a game at one point, check out his goals vs Juventus while at Fulham. Great vid as always!
Great video once again Chris! I am by no means a Soccer fan nor am I a Soccer card collector but this video was very informative. My youngest son (11) is starting to get into card collecting and Soccer is definitely an avenue he wants to get into. This video is very helpful for me to offer insight to him. Thank you Chris and please keep these type of videos coming!
11:41 The ranking by FIFA goes by "points". The US is off of a huge summer of victories in various tournaments and friendlies. That gave us a lot of points to jump to 10th, where as some of the teams you mentioned did not progress in their respective tournaments (even though, probably being favorites to beat the US if they played). You cannot put a lot of stock in ranking, but it is nice to see us "top 10".
I thought for the first time ever I might pass on one of your videos but I clicked and was very happy that I did. The most I have ever learned about soccer is from this video and as always you are very informative and I enjoyed it Thank you very much have a good day
amazing video for a truly complex sport as soccer is for American audience. Huge respect for all the work you put behind the scenes, even for me as European it was a great summary for soccer
Really enjoyed this video, Chris. I went to high school with Clint Dempsey. We had a coach that was very good in developing players, Coach Fasheed. Anyway, much appreciated, my friend.
Soccer 101. Thanx Chris. I knew nothing. I liked the auto card Oscar with the smiley face. Osaka - I would have been clueless if it weren't for her melt down on ESPN yesterday. Congratulations for taking a sport I don't care about and making it interesting. Good show buddy.
Impressed with your research. It’s strange to hear soccer as oddball items but appreciate your reasoning behind it! I will admit with things like the cigarette cards and they are a ton of companies to look at! Vintage soccer is where it’s at! Would recommend people look at Dixie Dean, G.O Smith, Stanley Matthews, Billy Meredith, Di Stefano, Kubala, Muller, Zico and Beckenbauer just to name a few!
I agree. As the sport grows in the US, I also expect the card market for soccer cards to grow as well. My earliest sets are from the early 90s, but I am by far no expert in the market.
@No-reply throwaway how do you say that? It's market share is growing and its popularity is on level now with the NHL, MLB and NBA. The league is now fleshed out with 2 more teams coming in the next two years, ticket prices are much more affordable and the younger generation with its Latin American influence will only grow its TV audience over time.
Hey Chris -- adding to the topic: The US league, called Major League Soccer or MLS, is a near top ten league globally. It's inaugural season in 1996 happened just after the World Cup was played in the United States in 1994. The first and only national set of MLS soccer cards were the 125 card 1997 Upper Deck MLS collection, which was a showcase of that inaugural 1996 season and the founding ten MLS teams (now 27 teams in 2021). Check out the collection on the TCDB or PSA Registry!
Chris my friend...you don't have to ask IF we liked the video? I am quite sure from reading comments regularly, 95% of us not only anxiously await ANY new video release (I know I am worse than a 5 year old on Christmas morning!! I CAN'T WAIT! side note:you are the ONLY one of the 200+ channels ive subscribed to that I get so pumped when a new video is released. FACTS no BS) just keep them coming. I never in a MILLION years I would be caught dead listening to someone talk about womens tennis or soccer but I now find myself not only listening but interested. I'm sure I sound like a broken record saying this, THANK YOU CHRIS. For everything. Not just videos but you are seriously funny. You're a great storyteller and its awesome how accessible your are by taking the time to respond to emails and share info. Best youtuber and best channel period. Can I get an AMEN!!!!?? 😂
But what's kinda lame is the absence of anything resembling a draft where best players go to weaker teams and then prove their greatness by leading team to a championship. Current situation leads to top very rich teams getting all talent and being best year after year, and it's hard to appreciate how good a player is when he is surrounded by so many good players as well. That's why I think maradona proved himself to be the greatest player ever without any argument that Messi could be better.
Because maradona actually went to a Naples team in Italy when they were at the bottom and brought them up to the championship level in an epic fashion, well Messi has been schooled and played with a collection of excellent players with Barcelona so it's just hard to see how good Messi is as an individual player because he played on hands down most talented team of his era
@@drew8703 well he’s in PSG now… if they don’t win the champions league… will make me think twice on how good he actually is. They have an amazing team on paper. Hopefully they work well as a team.
@@andysvt8 I know and I want to be clearer I dont so much mean it is a knock on Messi's greatness, but there is just this aspect of the Barcelona team being probably the best club team of all time for their run and how that just makes it harder to see and judge just how great Messi was/is. One of the many many compelling things about Maradona I found the more I have learned about him was his move to Naples and him making them a champion immediately (it might have been literally from the bottom to the top in one year with no other players being added to the team, and this was the best league in the world). You take that plus his '86 World Cup run where he played the best tournament ever by a player as I understand and his team winning it all, and hes just on a Biblical scale that is hard to believe actually happened. Messi did have the run to World Cup final but Maradona also thereafter took team to '90 final as a follow up to '86 performance and a friend from Spain who knows more about soccer than I ever will told me the '94 Argentina was poised to make a big run and Maradona was set up with the drug test that got him kicked out -- and really soccer being more about skill makes me question whether there existed anything back then that could make someone a better soccer player (maybe, just maybe it allowed him to get in shape quicker). Anyway, Messi was the best player on the greatest team of all time I think I can say, I just cant say there exists evidence where one could realistically say Messi was better individual soccer player than Maradona. Its fun to debate though which I think makes any sport more fun to watch and talk about.
Obsidian soccer versus Immaculate soccer. Help me understand why one appears to demand a higher price than the other for the same player Rarity and #/#
What's cool about soccer too is that it's fairly easy to brush up on general history cuz it's basically a two year cycle with euro cup and world cup (the other south American hasn't been that big), and there are couple teams worth remembering in given era every 4 or 8 years. So you can watch recaps of tourneys and get an overview of history of teams, and the history of the nations teams and matches are what adds a lot to watching it now - and the fact that a lot of nations have been in actual wars against each other recently (Germany and England playing in 56 or something when there basically just been a clash of civilization, England and Argentina in a smaller but very recent conflict in 86) and just over history that still resonates a little with how countries see each other and reflected in their teams. I've heard it said euro cup is actually "harder" because of higher concentration of teams and format, eg, world cup has expanded a lot kinda like ncaa tourney and in the later stages teams of lesser talent can do enough to go on a run . But world cup is still cooler cuz it's pinnacle of world sport, even though now champions league is thought of as having the best soccer overall. Ok, sorry to make it seem like a know it all, but soccer is cool and feel like have same experience in learning and liking it, eg, Americans who just love sports but prevented from watching it cuz of cable limitations of time, then went to Europe for little bit and opportunity to have people help you learn a lot just by asking people stuff and their opinions.
Free agent just like in North America is a guy without a contract and can sign with any team. But players have the ability to sign a pre contract with another team when they has 6 months left of their current contract. In cases like that players get sold for a very low price to the team that they signed a pre contract with. And they go to their new team 6 months before. Players that won’t get a chance to player and develop usually get loaned out to teams in a lower division. That way they play and develop instead of sit on the bench. There is a fee for that. But it’s not huge. If the club thinks the player is ready they bring them back to the original team the next season. Or loan him out again until they feel he is ready. There are other examples but it takes a lot more writing
It is very easy to understand. NBA is one country-they play one league per year. Soccer has hundreds of countries that play the game. Each country plays a league plus a parallel round robin format. Then the top teams of the league winners from each country play in a Champions Cup round robin format. And the Top teams of the Round Robin Parallel rounds from each country play in a super cup. SOme countries can submit 2-4 teams per country as they are high calibre compared o minow countries who present 1 team only
As always, so professionally done. I am not a soccer follower, however your video did a terrific job covering it! I look forward to whatever your next one will be.
Hi Chris. We’re Americans living in Europe now. My 6-yr old son started trading soccer cards in school. Do you have a good video about them? The World Cup? Or a guide to them? Thank you!
Got a topps chrome refractor of Haalands second year in a psa 10 and crossing my fingers that my gio reyna pc /32 auto of his debut game for the senior club against the sounder that my friends and I went to will be glorious in the long run!
Great info Chris you covered pretty much everything. One thing that I'd add that often confuses is that in European soccer the seasons are from July to June so there isn't a 2021 Season for example. A lot of Soccer card sets just include one year in their title like US sports, but this can correspond to either year within that season. Its generally the latter year but its not always the case. Topps Premier Gold 98 (1997/1998) and Premier Gold 2013 (2013/2014) highlight the problem! As you mentioned each year relegation and promotion happen, so checking the league table and checking which teams are in the set is the best way to see if there is confusion.
Great video...prefect video for a rookie soccer fan and soccer card collector. My son age 10 is really into soccer and is trying to collect soccer cards!!!! This was a great video!!!!!
In my opinion when Pele and Maradona come up as the “two stars” of soccer I think it should always be 3. Cruyff needs to be mentioned in the same breath as those other two. But, it’s my opinion as a Dutchman 😂
I would still call my self new in the hobby, i think i now most off the things from this one, but would love if the videoes went even deeper in the market, could be about how you are trying to find value in the soccer market? love your content, keep them comming.
My advice to someone who does not know much about soccer but wants to get in to it would be to target Champions League packs as well as national tournaments.
I'm convinced that there are only two types of people that dislike Chris's videos. People that either love rookie hype and speculation or just straight up haters.
I think if you make a video like this and then share some of the prices/actual sales these cards command, it would hit a lot harder. I noticed, for example, you showed a raw copy of the 92 Score Italy Maldini card. The fact that packs go for a dollar or two and that base card went for $50 to $100 raw would be extra interesting. Currently you can pick it up now for like $15 so it may be a good buy for several reasons.
My advise to other Americans is to collect rookie stickers. Europeans collect them and will continue to. American interest in cards will come and go and so will prices
Great video for newbies. Especially Panini world cup cards are hard to come across as they have lower print run. Perhaps you could broaden the field by introducing stickers which in many case are regarded as true rookies. Keep up the good work, Bro!
I can honestly say it's probably the same level as the MLS. The rankings Chris showed are not very accurate, MLS is no where near top 20, let alone 14th. And ranked 10th in the World lmao, now I know it's crap.
I agree both those seem high to me. The #14 league for MLS was just a random website. But the #10 ranking for USMNT was FIFA, which is really surprising
Me i collect world cup , copa america , champions league , FIFA 365 from panini & topps and i buy them from my stores and Grocery store Walmart , Target , Dollar tree , CVS pharmacy , Northgate Gonzalez Market those are the stores i go buy stickers and trading cards as well along with Upper deck.
Didn't Topps make a few sets of soccer cards for the UK in the mid and late 70's? One more question, do you consider sportscaster's to be trading cards as there are many famous athletes in those sets?
Yeah I think Topps made cards for English and Scottish Leagues at around 75/76 season to 81/82 season. This started again with Merlin in 93/94 season (Merlin being Topps' British wing) before gradually turning back to Topps brand name again in 2000/01 season.
absolutely loved this vid - as a Brit, I can see how you have hit the nail on the head for your fellow americas. Great research, accurate and delivered very well. However I do have to say as a chelsea fan myself, Christian Pulisic is nowhere near the top 50 mark of players in the world :') god bless captain america though...
Great video Chris! I am wondering if other viewers ripped any 1992 Score soccer. I ripped 4 boxes and upon opening the boxes, the packs were scattered. When I ripped the packs, about half the cards had bends in them. If this experience is consistent with others, I would say that this is going to be a sleeper set if half the cards are worthless because they are damaged. Also, I have not seen a perfectly centered Roberto Baggio.
I have a whole book full with every single soccer card from 2010 match attacks (from memory) and players and teams in order! Would you be interested, I don’t know what it’s worth?
Rookie cards and stickers are usually first pro club so usually more value. Messi Barcelona and C.Ronaldo Sporting Lisbon etc. First National tournament World Cup, UEFA Euro and Copa America are also important specially If winning champ early of career..
National World Cup, Euro, Copa print (pop) are usually much higher so not so rare and not so valuable but some vintage Pele, Maradona etc are usually only National Jersey rookie stickers so vintage is different thank pre-modern and ultramodern.
From a uk football collector, I would say that generally it’s the player for the club cards (generally rookies to) as normally don’t play in a big tournament for a year years after they’re debate for club, especially if the rookie card is for an elite club IE top 5 teams from Orem Bund Ligue 1 etc
@@liamthomas9906 Sometimes 1994 Ronaldo Nazario da Lima was in World Cup and then PSV after World Cup. But it's rare National and Club is same year.. Vintage club rookies hard to find. Have to find info, history and study... Or have to ask..
Chris any info on the 1991 Pro Set special Soccer box called SHOOT.. Official fixture cards..One seller said she had the last box in America..Well I know of at least 3 others..She is asking 245.00..The other 105.00..both sealed..A discounter has a beat up box for 24.99..I have a complete box but not sealed..Also someone is selling by the pack for 9.99..Any info is appreciated..
Free agency isn't really that different. In Europe you have 2 transfer windows (July-August and one in the winter) where you can straight up buy and sell players.
The best players under 21 are Ansu Fati and Vinicius Junior. Both will be the next superstars after Messi and Ronaldo retire. Mbappe might be the best of them all however.
Chris and like to hear your opinion is American way more investing collecting and Europe collecting investing and what you can see as American in Europe what Europeans and Americans should understand to Make collecting hobby healty and growing at same time? Can Europe and America meet with soccer collecting and investing?
Its possible, but it will be a while. Card collecting is not big at all in Europe, although the card companies are clearly trying a more global approach
is starting bro, im from spain and you can find a good community constantly growing, also in germany, and uk. we always collect football cards since we where childs and is very common, but obviosly we focus more in collections like panini este, megacrack, adrenalyn and these. But actually people start buying also americans collections, sincerely i preffer to focus on messi rookies and these stuff, more traditional because i feel so saturated with all the collections that they try to sell like score, prizm, topps asnd all of these, there are a lot. But for example i like a lot panini instant with iconic moment like the one that messi appers lifting the world cup the number 118 thats one is crazy for me, and probably for all the messi fans that they are not a few
Love the World cup the other Europe and South America cups in off years. Know more US woman's players than the men's since they have been so outstanding. Have not collected any soccer cards and do not plan to even though would love to have a nice Messi and Ronaldo.
Chris, would be nice to hear you opinion as American what is happening If (and when?) rest of world is (or not?) adapting American card collecting culture and soccer happens to be global n:o 1 sport? Only Basketball can compete..
absolutly bro, im from Spain and we always made football collections since we where a childs, the most common are panini este and adrenalyn xl, but we also have megacracks, collections of teams like the barca campió and these ones. But yeah we are start following the american culture of sending to psa and all of these but a bit slowly cause here in Europe is a little bit difficult or take a lot of time to send to psa so people have in raw state a lot of cards. Also the community is growing i will say in Spain, uK, Germany and France, are where you cand find more collectors. And yes peeople also buy prizm, mosaic, topps all these stuff, i preffer more classic like collect messi panini rookies from here, because i fell very saturated with all the collections that are coming into the market. But is crazy the potential that these market have, every child in south america and europe collect that cards when the are young so why not they will collect when they are a litte bit older? Also i like a lot panini prizm, from america, with good narrative pictures like the one of messi in the final
In terms of pulusic I would say Dempsey was as good if better, he was great in the premier league for Fulham, advise all USA fans to maybe UA-cam his Fulham goals he lit up the prem for a few years
For someone that has no idea about soccer this video rlly helps just to learn a bit
Chris Sewall: Only man on the planet that can get me to watch a soccer card video.
LOL me too
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Ya, that was a great share. Had no idea how many leagues there were. A ton of information. I think you should continue more vids like this.
This was an essential video. Soccer is now a significant part of the hobby and it is really growing people.
Great for newcomers. Love collecting my Eto’o and Steve Bloomer stuff. Its a fun market, but helps if you care about the sport.
@@f1sker_karma For some it works the other way around: holding those cards in your hands might make you care more about the sport.
So im a football fan and I'm well impressed with your research/knowledge. Another top vid mate 👌
Man I love to see this as I have transitioned from collecting/trading basketball & baseball to being completely focused on soccer 👍👍. Every show I go to and ask if they have soccer it’s either “just sold it all” or “your the 10th person to ask, I don’t have any soccer but need to get into it!”
I noticed that at the National... a lot of people asking about soccer cards and not a lot of dealers having much
i love this. soceer is easily my favorite box to rip. please more soccer, chris
Vintage soccer is a market that is severely underrated given the rarity and worldwide icon status of many of these players.
The relegation-promotion angle to soccer leagues make it really intense. That old cliche “every game matters” is really true for those leagues.
Forgot to add in my comment watched Pele and the Brazil team win the 1970 World Cup while visiting Amsterdam.
It is so strange though to wrap your head around the fact there is no league playoff - and even though champions league is kinda like it, the teams earn their berths basically for their accomplishments the prior season so it's not even the same team qualifying vs team ends up playing (different players signed/left). American sport brain no understand.
I have baseball, basketball, football and hockey cards planning on starting a soccer card collection!
I'm from Europe and a life long football fan, so I can clarify the free agency thing a bit:
In soccer the concept of free agency is pretty vague. Most players get bought by teams, meaning: Club A pays Club B x amount of money for the rights to sign a player from Club B. Player swaps or trades happen sometimes, but they are quite rare. There are also certain players who wait until their contract runs out to sign with a new team, which is oftend called a 'free transfer' in football terms, but is the equivalent of a free agency signing in American sports. Clubs cant buy players all year round, only in 'transfer windows' which are in the summer and in the winter.
Appreciate the info!
Great job, Chris. An extensive wealth of knowledge once again. I too myself am still learning the soccer market. I think the thing that entices me the most is the international popularity and hopefully card value will continue to grow. In America our peeps STILL have not caught up with the popularity of soccer and are missing out. Big Time. I love World Cup and seeing the countries compete. So much passion. Investment stand point, I only invest in Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, OG Ronaldo and Beckham based on popularity. I’m still learning the newer guys.
Those 4 players are solid but there are so many more GOATs that are huge in countries where football (soccer) is the main sport, i'd start by googling the "FIFA 100" Pele's list of the top 125 retired players to ever play. There are many more that don't grace that list too.
Also to clarify the ‘Champions League’ which as you mentioned is the elite level continental competition for the top European clubs, used to be called the ‘European Cup’ before being rebranded. You will sometimes hear people still use the old term European Cup though so just know they are referring to the Champions League when saying that. BTW Dempsey in his peak at Fulham was much better than any level Pulisic has reached so far, however Pulisic does have potential if he can stay injury free and get a consistant run of games. Prime Dempsey was almost scoring a goal a game at one point, check out his goals vs Juventus while at Fulham. Great vid as always!
Great video once again Chris! I am by no means a Soccer fan nor am I a Soccer card collector but this video was very informative. My youngest son (11) is starting to get into card collecting and Soccer is definitely an avenue he wants to get into. This video is very helpful for me to offer insight to him. Thank you Chris and please keep these type of videos coming!
Thanks for helping me learn something today. Have a great weeekend!
11:41 The ranking by FIFA goes by "points". The US is off of a huge summer of victories in various tournaments and friendlies. That gave us a lot of points to jump to 10th, where as some of the teams you mentioned did not progress in their respective tournaments (even though, probably being favorites to beat the US if they played). You cannot put a lot of stock in ranking, but it is nice to see us "top 10".
I thought for the first time ever I might pass on one of your videos but I clicked and was very happy that I did. The most I have ever learned about soccer is from this video and as always you are very informative and I enjoyed it Thank you very much have a good day
amazing video for a truly complex sport as soccer is for American audience. Huge respect for all the work you put behind the scenes, even for me as European it was a great summary for soccer
Really enjoyed this video, Chris. I went to high school with Clint Dempsey. We had a coach that was very good in developing players, Coach Fasheed. Anyway, much appreciated, my friend.
Very cool about Dempsey!
You saw our bat signal! We needed this video thanks so much.
this was some great education thank you very much! Also. More videos with stories about acquiring cards! Those are awesome!!
Concise and informative, great video
Love the soccer card content
Soccer 101. Thanx Chris. I knew nothing. I liked the auto card Oscar with the smiley face. Osaka - I would have been clueless if it weren't for her melt down on ESPN yesterday. Congratulations for taking a sport I don't care about and making it interesting. Good show buddy.
Impressed with your research. It’s strange to hear soccer as oddball items but appreciate your reasoning behind it! I will admit with things like the cigarette cards and they are a ton of companies to look at! Vintage soccer is where it’s at! Would recommend people look at Dixie Dean, G.O Smith, Stanley Matthews, Billy Meredith, Di Stefano, Kubala, Muller, Zico and Beckenbauer just to name a few!
Honestly you have done some amazing research!!
I agree. As the sport grows in the US, I also expect the card market for soccer cards to grow as well. My earliest sets are from the early 90s, but I am by far no expert in the market.
@No-reply throwaway how do you say that? It's market share is growing and its popularity is on level now with the NHL, MLB and NBA. The league is now fleshed out with 2 more teams coming in the next two years, ticket prices are much more affordable and the younger generation with its Latin American influence will only grow its TV audience over time.
Hey Chris -- adding to the topic: The US league, called Major League Soccer or MLS, is a near top ten league globally. It's inaugural season in 1996 happened just after the World Cup was played in the United States in 1994.
The first and only national set of MLS soccer cards were the 125 card 1997 Upper Deck MLS collection, which was a showcase of that inaugural 1996 season and the founding ten MLS teams (now 27 teams in 2021). Check out the collection on the TCDB or PSA Registry!
Great video..thank anyone think World Cup boxes or cards hold value better than other cards?
Chris my friend...you don't have to ask IF we liked the video? I am quite sure from reading comments regularly, 95% of us not only anxiously await ANY new video release (I know I am worse than a 5 year old on Christmas morning!! I CAN'T WAIT! side note:you are the ONLY one of the 200+ channels ive subscribed to that I get so pumped when a new video is released. FACTS no BS) just keep them coming. I never in a MILLION years I would be caught dead listening to someone talk about womens tennis or soccer but I now find myself not only listening but interested. I'm sure I sound like a broken record saying this, THANK YOU CHRIS. For everything. Not just videos but you are seriously funny. You're a great storyteller and its awesome how accessible your are by taking the time to respond to emails and share info. Best youtuber and best channel period. Can I get an AMEN!!!!?? 😂
Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words
What are generally the best Mls sets to collect each year in terms of brand like Score or topps?
Promotion!? Relegation!?
Incentives and consequences for performances over the season? US sports fan = mind blown
But what's kinda lame is the absence of anything resembling a draft where best players go to weaker teams and then prove their greatness by leading team to a championship. Current situation leads to top very rich teams getting all talent and being best year after year, and it's hard to appreciate how good a player is when he is surrounded by so many good players as well. That's why I think maradona proved himself to be the greatest player ever without any argument that Messi could be better.
Because maradona actually went to a Naples team in Italy when they were at the bottom and brought them up to the championship level in an epic fashion, well Messi has been schooled and played with a collection of excellent players with Barcelona so it's just hard to see how good Messi is as an individual player because he played on hands down most talented team of his era
@@drew8703 well he’s in PSG now… if they don’t win the champions league… will make me think twice on how good he actually is. They have an amazing team on paper. Hopefully they work well as a team.
@@drew8703 crazy how you had to make this about discrediting Messi
@@andysvt8 I know and I want to be clearer I dont so much mean it is a knock on Messi's greatness, but there is just this aspect of the Barcelona team being probably the best club team of all time for their run and how that just makes it harder to see and judge just how great Messi was/is. One of the many many compelling things about Maradona I found the more I have learned about him was his move to Naples and him making them a champion immediately (it might have been literally from the bottom to the top in one year with no other players being added to the team, and this was the best league in the world). You take that plus his '86 World Cup run where he played the best tournament ever by a player as I understand and his team winning it all, and hes just on a Biblical scale that is hard to believe actually happened. Messi did have the run to World Cup final but Maradona also thereafter took team to '90 final as a follow up to '86 performance and a friend from Spain who knows more about soccer than I ever will told me the '94 Argentina was poised to make a big run and Maradona was set up with the drug test that got him kicked out -- and really soccer being more about skill makes me question whether there existed anything back then that could make someone a better soccer player (maybe, just maybe it allowed him to get in shape quicker). Anyway, Messi was the best player on the greatest team of all time I think I can say, I just cant say there exists evidence where one could realistically say Messi was better individual soccer player than Maradona. Its fun to debate though which I think makes any sport more fun to watch and talk about.
Obsidian soccer versus Immaculate soccer. Help me understand why one appears to demand a higher price than the other for the same player Rarity and #/#
What's cool about soccer too is that it's fairly easy to brush up on general history cuz it's basically a two year cycle with euro cup and world cup (the other south American hasn't been that big), and there are couple teams worth remembering in given era every 4 or 8 years. So you can watch recaps of tourneys and get an overview of history of teams, and the history of the nations teams and matches are what adds a lot to watching it now - and the fact that a lot of nations have been in actual wars against each other recently (Germany and England playing in 56 or something when there basically just been a clash of civilization, England and Argentina in a smaller but very recent conflict in 86) and just over history that still resonates a little with how countries see each other and reflected in their teams. I've heard it said euro cup is actually "harder" because of higher concentration of teams and format, eg, world cup has expanded a lot kinda like ncaa tourney and in the later stages teams of lesser talent can do enough to go on a run . But world cup is still cooler cuz it's pinnacle of world sport, even though now champions league is thought of as having the best soccer overall.
Ok, sorry to make it seem like a know it all, but soccer is cool and feel like have same experience in learning and liking it, eg, Americans who just love sports but prevented from watching it cuz of cable limitations of time, then went to Europe for little bit and opportunity to have people help you learn a lot just by asking people stuff and their opinions.
Free agent just like in North America is a guy without a contract and can sign with any team. But players have the ability to sign a pre contract with another team when they has 6 months left of their current contract. In cases like that players get sold for a very low price to the team that they signed a pre contract with. And they go to their new team 6 months before. Players that won’t get a chance to player and develop usually get loaned out to teams in a lower division. That way they play and develop instead of sit on the bench. There is a fee for that. But it’s not huge. If the club thinks the player is ready they bring them back to the original team the next season. Or loan him out again until they feel he is ready. There are other examples but it takes a lot more writing
This is great, thanks! Is there consensus on what Megan Rapinoe's RC is (beyond the Panini Sticker)?
She has some cards from 2012 from Panini Americana that I would consider her main Rookies. Some autographs from those sets as well.
It is very easy to understand. NBA is one country-they play one league per year. Soccer has hundreds of countries that play the game. Each country plays a league plus a parallel round robin format. Then the top teams of the league winners from each country play in a Champions Cup round robin format. And the Top teams of the Round Robin Parallel rounds from each country play in a super cup. SOme countries can submit 2-4 teams per country as they are high calibre compared o minow countries who present 1 team only
Great video. I was looking for this as I want to get into soccer cards.
Not gonna lie. I couldn't care less about soccer or their cards, but I'm a big fan of this channel so I'm watching it thru to support🙌
Awesome video Chris!!
As always, so professionally done. I am not a soccer follower, however your video did a terrific job covering it! I look forward to whatever your next one will be.
Hi Chris. We’re Americans living in Europe now. My 6-yr old son started trading soccer cards in school. Do you have a good video about them? The World Cup? Or a guide to them? Thank you!
This video is actually the only soccer-card video I have made. But very cool to hear your son is getting into it!
I buy a pack of panini road to Qatar card like the classique one was it worth it and Wich card are rare ?
What’s in the KEEPERS box?
Got a topps chrome refractor of Haalands second year in a psa 10 and crossing my fingers that my gio reyna pc /32 auto of his debut game for the senior club against the sounder that my friends and I went to will be glorious in the long run!
Awesome info! Definitely learned a ton. Thanks for all the great content
You seem like a great personality outside of the cards and UA-cam. Much Love from IOWA
Glad you did this episode. I have some understanding now about soccer. Still lots to learn
Great info Chris you covered pretty much everything. One thing that I'd add that often confuses is that in European soccer the seasons are from July to June so there isn't a 2021 Season for example. A lot of Soccer card sets just include one year in their title like US sports, but this can correspond to either year within that season. Its generally the latter year but its not always the case. Topps Premier Gold 98 (1997/1998) and Premier Gold 2013 (2013/2014) highlight the problem! As you mentioned each year relegation and promotion happen, so checking the league table and checking which teams are in the set is the best way to see if there is confusion.
Great piece of info
Thinking about collecting some soccer cards and this is very helpful. Much appreciated!
Where do you place cards of soccer stars in products like Allen & Ginter, Goodwin, etc…?
Great video...prefect video for a rookie soccer fan and soccer card collector. My son age 10 is really into soccer and is trying to collect soccer cards!!!! This was a great video!!!!!
NBA play offs is sort of like the round robin. Your explanation was pretty good either way
In my opinion when Pele and Maradona come up as the “two stars” of soccer I think it should always be 3. Cruyff needs to be mentioned in the same breath as those other two.
But, it’s my opinion as a Dutchman 😂
Thanks a million for this information!! I'm quite the rookie when it comes to soccer.
Suggest and ye shall receive. Great content. Thanks!
I would still call my self new in the hobby, i think i now most off the things from this one, but would love if the videoes went even deeper in the market, could be about how you are trying to find value in the soccer market? love your content, keep them comming.
My advice to someone who does not know much about soccer but wants to get in to it would be to target Champions League packs as well as national tournaments.
I'm convinced that there are only two types of people that dislike Chris's videos. People that either love rookie hype and speculation or just straight up haters.
I would also add the "influencer" type of guys targeting only on bs and pushing narratives for getting the bucks
I think if you make a video like this and then share some of the prices/actual sales these cards command, it would hit a lot harder. I noticed, for example, you showed a raw copy of the 92 Score Italy Maldini card. The fact that packs go for a dollar or two and that base card went for $50 to $100 raw would be extra interesting. Currently you can pick it up now for like $15 so it may be a good buy for several reasons.
I love soccer this could be a good avenue for me
My advise to other Americans is to collect rookie stickers. Europeans collect them and will continue to. American interest in cards will come and go and so will prices
Great video for newbies. Especially Panini world cup cards are hard to come across as they have lower print run. Perhaps you could broaden the field by introducing stickers which in many case are regarded as true rookies. Keep up the good work, Bro!
Thank you, great compressed, to the point video on soccer cards.
Thanks for this I've been collecting soccer lately and this has helped alot.
How about old tobacco cards from the early 1900. I think a few of those along with Rugby cards. When did Soccer ⚽️ Leagues start ? - Dennis.
How about the Australian A-League?
I can honestly say it's probably the same level as the MLS. The rankings Chris showed are not very accurate, MLS is no where near top 20, let alone 14th. And ranked 10th in the World lmao, now I know it's crap.
I agree both those seem high to me. The #14 league for MLS was just a random website. But the #10 ranking for USMNT was FIFA, which is really surprising
Great video!
Me i collect world cup , copa america , champions league , FIFA 365 from panini & topps and i buy them from my stores and Grocery store
Walmart , Target , Dollar tree , CVS pharmacy , Northgate Gonzalez Market those are the stores i go buy stickers and trading cards as well along with Upper deck.
Key players to invest atm: pedri, adeyemi, camavinga, bellingham
5:00 I disagree A&BC we’re a popular card company who have great vintage sets
thanks for this video, Chris. super edifying.
Didn't Topps make a few sets of soccer cards for the UK in the mid and late 70's? One more question, do you consider sportscaster's to be trading cards as there are many famous athletes in those sets?
Yeah I think Topps made cards for English and Scottish Leagues at around 75/76 season to 81/82 season. This started again with Merlin in 93/94 season (Merlin being Topps' British wing) before gradually turning back to Topps brand name again in 2000/01 season.
Great video 🔥🔥🔥
absolutely loved this vid - as a Brit, I can see how you have hit the nail on the head for your fellow americas. Great research, accurate and delivered very well. However I do have to say as a chelsea fan myself, Christian Pulisic is nowhere near the top 50 mark of players in the world :') god bless captain america though...
Haha! Fair enough :). A US National team fan can dream though :)
Nice work Chris😀 I enjoyed a lot watching this ⚽
Great video Chris! I am wondering if other viewers ripped any 1992 Score soccer. I ripped 4 boxes and upon opening the boxes, the packs were scattered. When I ripped the packs, about half the cards had bends in them. If this experience is consistent with others, I would say that this is going to be a sleeper set if half the cards are worthless because they are damaged. Also, I have not seen a perfectly centered Roberto Baggio.
I have opened quite a few boxes and they have all sorts of condition and centering issues.
Fun video forsure. Hope to see more like it!
I have a whole book full with every single soccer card from 2010 match attacks (from memory) and players and teams in order! Would you be interested, I don’t know what it’s worth?
WE LOVE SOCCER & this video was great thanks a lot !!
Chris, great video. I have an off topic question. Does anyone certify autographs and slab CDs?
PSA and Beckett both certify autographs
Which cards are generally going to have more value: a top player in his club jersey or the same player in his country jersey?
Rookie cards and stickers are usually first pro club so usually more value. Messi Barcelona and C.Ronaldo Sporting Lisbon etc. First National tournament World Cup, UEFA Euro and Copa America are also important specially If winning champ early of career..
National World Cup, Euro, Copa print (pop) are usually much higher so not so rare and not so valuable but some vintage Pele, Maradona etc are usually only National Jersey rookie stickers so vintage is different thank pre-modern and ultramodern.
From a uk football collector, I would say that generally it’s the player for the club cards (generally rookies to) as normally don’t play in a big tournament for a year years after they’re debate for club, especially if the rookie card is for an elite club IE top 5 teams from Orem Bund Ligue 1 etc
@@liamthomas9906 Exellent info. Thanks much for the non-US point of view.
@@liamthomas9906 Sometimes 1994 Ronaldo Nazario da Lima was in World Cup and then PSV after World Cup. But it's rare National and Club is same year.. Vintage club rookies hard to find. Have to find info, history and study... Or have to ask..
Thank you for this awesome vid man! I don’t know much of soccer, but your vid has been very helpful
They should do at the NFL (demotion). Ooooo more regular season!! I'm going to get into soccer.
Chris any info on the 1991 Pro Set special Soccer box called SHOOT.. Official fixture cards..One seller said she had the last box in America..Well I know of at least 3 others..She is asking 245.00..The other 105.00..both sealed..A discounter has a beat up box for 24.99..I have a complete box but not sealed..Also someone is selling by the pack for 9.99..Any info is appreciated..
I am actually not familiar with that set. I imagine its important whether the set has any key names/Rookies.
How to sell cards
Cool video on soccer thanks 4 the knowledge how about F-1 racing is there value in it
such an underrated market
Free agency isn't really that different. In Europe you have 2 transfer windows (July-August and one in the winter) where you can straight up buy and sell players.
Great info on soccer. I know very little myself
I have the 2014 Prizm World Cup Set. Are any of those cards worth any money if graded?
Messi and Ronaldo both sell for ~$400+ in PSA 10s
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Ok. Thank you. I am waiting to get cards back. It's been over 1 year 😔
Great video
One or two of those Messi mega cracks rookie cards could have been picked up for a song a couple of years ago
The best players under 21 are Ansu Fati and Vinicius Junior. Both will be the next superstars after Messi and Ronaldo retire. Mbappe might be the best of them all however.
Chris and like to hear your opinion is American way more investing collecting and Europe collecting investing and what you can see as American in Europe what Europeans and Americans should understand to Make collecting hobby healty and growing at same time? Can Europe and America meet with soccer collecting and investing?
Its possible, but it will be a while. Card collecting is not big at all in Europe, although the card companies are clearly trying a more global approach
is starting bro, im from spain and you can find a good community constantly growing, also in germany, and uk.
we always collect football cards since we where childs and is very common, but obviosly we focus more in collections like panini este, megacrack, adrenalyn and these. But actually people start buying also americans collections, sincerely i preffer to focus on messi rookies and these stuff, more traditional because i feel so saturated with all the collections that they try to sell like score, prizm, topps asnd all of these, there are a lot. But for example i like a lot panini instant with iconic moment like the one that messi appers lifting the world cup the number 118 thats one is crazy for me, and probably for all the messi fans that they are not a few
thanks for sharing
Love the World cup the other Europe and South America cups in off years. Know more US woman's players than the men's since they have been so outstanding. Have not collected any soccer cards and do not plan to even though would love to have a nice Messi and Ronaldo.
Panini needs to make a Zach and Julie Ertz dual auto in one of their multi-sport sets.
Chris, would be nice to hear you opinion as American what is happening If (and when?) rest of world is (or not?) adapting American card collecting culture and soccer happens to be global n:o 1 sport? Only Basketball can compete..
I think will grow slowly but surely in the US and soccer cards slowly but surely around the world
absolutly bro, im from Spain and we always made football collections since we where a childs, the most common are panini este and adrenalyn xl, but we also have megacracks, collections of teams like the barca campió and these ones. But yeah we are start following the american culture of sending to psa and all of these but a bit slowly cause here in Europe is a little bit difficult or take a lot of time to send to psa so people have in raw state a lot of cards. Also the community is growing i will say in Spain, uK, Germany and France, are where you cand find more collectors. And yes peeople also buy prizm, mosaic, topps all these stuff, i preffer more classic like collect messi panini rookies from here, because i fell very saturated with all the collections that are coming into the market. But is crazy the potential that these market have, every child in south america and europe collect that cards when the are young so why not they will collect when they are a litte bit older? Also i like a lot panini prizm, from america, with good narrative pictures like the one of messi in the final
In terms of pulusic I would say Dempsey was as good if better, he was great in the premier league for Fulham, advise all USA fans to maybe UA-cam his Fulham goals he lit up the prem for a few years
agree, the amount spended off pulisic i too much, would never go in top25 all time.