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Zoet 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Auto/Relic Contest Winner Announced

Congrats to zagrapanjc on being the lucky winner of the Jeroen Zoet 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Museum Autograph/Relic Gold Parallel #’ed/50.  Once zagrapanjc sends me their mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP.  Thanks!

Zoet 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Auto/Relic Contest! – NOW CLOSED

This contest is for a Jeroen Zoet 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Museum Autograph/Relic Gold Parallel #’ed/50.  Good luck!!!

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Friday, July 19, 2019 @ 8:00 p.m. EST.
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post.
• You can enter once per day.
• The winner will be selected at random.
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering.
• U.S. residents only.
• The winner will receive an e-mail when the contest is over.
• The winner has one week to send me their contact information or the contest will be held again.
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!

2018/19 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer Hobby Box Break & Review

Curious as to what the 2019 Topps Baseball flagship set will look like on Topps Chrome stock?  Have no fear.  2018/19 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer is here.

2018/19 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer utilizes the 2019 Topps Baseball flagship set design.  It gives us a nice preview as to what the flagship set looks like on chrome stock well before Topps Chrome Baseball comes out.

The set consists of top players from the UEFA Champions League.  (100) cards make up the base set.  Parallels include Refractor, Purple Refractor #’ed/250, Blue Refractor #’ed/150, Green Refractor #’ed/99, Blue Wave Refractor #’ed/75, Gold Refractor #’ed/50, Orange Refractor #’ed/25, Red Refractor #’ed/10, Red Wave Refractor #’ed/10, and Superfractor #’ed 1/1.

You can’t have a set like this without some SP Photo Variations.  Lionel Messi #1, Christian Pulišić #23, Harry Kane #48, Antoine Griezmann #84, and Cristiano Ronaldo #100 cover all of them.  I made a handy little guide showing you what the SP Photo Variations look like.  Checking the CMP codes can be helpful too.  SP Photo Variations end in #223, whereas base cards end in #203.

A single hobby box should yield (1) autograph.  Even if your autograph isn’t some life altering hit, the wide variety of colored refractors helps to balance things out.

Autographs that you can get include Chrome Autographs, Champions League Debut Autographs, Future Stars Autographs, and Superstar Sensations Autographs.  Non-autographed versions of the same titles can be pulled as inserts.

One tiny difference you’ll notice is with the player’s name.  With the 2019 Topps Baseball flagship set the player’s last name is shown above their first name.  When it comes to 2018/19 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer its reversed.

Complete Checklist

Here is what I pulled:

Auto

• Matteo Politano Chrome Auto Orange Refractor #’ed/25

Parallels

• Gedson Fernandes Blue Wave Refractor #’ed/75
• Marcus Rashford Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Lionel Messi Purple Refractor #’ed/250
• Rafa Silva Purple Refractor #’ed/250
• Marc-André ter Stegen Refractor
• Luka Modric Refractor
• Andreas Pereira Refractor
• Lucas Moura Refractor
• Marco Verratti Refractor

Inserts

• Robert Lewandowski Superstar Sensations
• Neymar Jr. Superstar Sensations
• Marco Reus Superstar Sensations
• Harry Kane Superstar Sensations
• Raheem Sterling Future Stars
• Saúl Ñíguez Future Stars
• Federico Bernardeschi Future Stars

2018/19 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer SP Photo Variation Guide

2018/19 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer contains (5) SP Photo Variations.  That’s not a lot compared to other sets.  These are quite difficult to pull, and each one has a Superfractor parallel #’ed 1/1.

Lionel Messi #1, Christian Pulišić #23, Harry Kane #48, Antoine Griezmann #84, and Cristiano Ronaldo #100 are the only SP Photo Variations.  While each of them has a base card in the main set, their SP Photo Variation is harder to find.  CMP codes for SP Photo Variations end in #223, whereas base cards end in #203.

Here’s what the SP Photo Variations look like:

Reus 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Relic Contest Winner Announced

Congrats to Matt Wilson on being the lucky winner of the Marco Reus 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Meaningful Material Single Relic #’ed/99.  Once Matt Wilson sends me his mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP.  Thanks!

Reus 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Relic Contest! – NOW CLOSED

This contest is for a Marco Reus 2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Meaningful Material Single Relic #’ed/99.  Good luck!!!

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Friday, June 28, 2019 @ 8:00 p.m. EST.
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post.
• You can enter once per day.
• The winner will be selected at random.
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering.
• The winner will receive an e-mail when the contest is over.
• The winner has one week to send me their contact information or the contest will be held again.
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!

2018/19 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection Soccer Hobby Box Break & Review

Even if you don’t speak the language, you have to admit soccer broadcasters can be very entertaining.  Especially when a goal is made.  I’d like to see cards made that commemorate some of the most memorable soccer calls in history.  How that could be done isn’t quite clear.  I guess you could have the broadcasters inscribe what they said on a card.  Don’t ask me how they would spell some of the crazy noises they make.  Placing a microchip in the card with a recording of the actual call would be ideal.  But I’ve got a feeling that could get expensive.

This is the second year soccer fans have had the opportunity to enjoy UEFA Champions League Topps Museum Collection.  The 2018/19 version of this popular brand contains (1) pack inside each box.  Every pack should have (8) cards.  (1) Autograph, (1) Autograph/Relic, and (1) Relic should be pulled from every pack.  That’s (3) total hits.  (2) base parallels, and (3) regular base cards are in each pack too.

Collectors opening boxes of this product are mainly focused on the hits.  But there is a base set to put together if that’s something you’re into.  The base set consists of (75) cards.  A handful of parallels are available – Copper #’ed/99, Sapphire #’ed/75, Gold #’ed/50, Ruby #’ed/25, and Emerald #’ed 1/1.

As mentioned before, hits are the meat and potatoes of this brand.  Hits you can pull include Archival Autographs, Archival Dual Autographs, Framed Autographs, Road to Madrid Autographs, Museum Autograph Relics, Autograph Jumbo Relics, Framed Autograph Patch, Single Player Triple Relic Autographs, Meaningful Material Single Relics, Dual Meaningful Material Patch Relics, Momentous Material Jumbo Relics, Momentous Material Prime Patch Relics, and Single Player Triple Relics.

Unlike it’s baseball counterpart, there are no Canvas Collection inserts with original artwork.  Sticker autographs are also the go to.  Most soccer products that pertain to leagues outside of the United States have sticker autographs.

As of right now, a box will cost around $100.  There is also a Bundesliga edition.

Complete Checklist

Here is what I pulled:

Auto

• Andreas Pereira Archival Autographs Ruby #’ed/25

Auto/Relic

• Jeroen Zoet Museum Autograph Relics Gold #’ed/50

Relic

• Marco Reus Meaningful Material Single Relics #’ed/99

Parallels

• Iker Casillas Copper #’ed/99
• Miralem Pjanić Gold #’ed/50

Base

• Benjamin Henrichs #70
• Gareth Bale #15
• Bertrand Traoré #8