Lamine Yamal

Why this one matters.

“"Wearing a red jersey instead of waving a red cape, Yamal causes quite a stampede for Spain with his graceful moves and technical skill. Rather than popping into the Royal Palace or relaxing at a bullfighting ring, passionate fans prefer to storm the soccer stadium and cheer on the exciting prodigy." Panini's card back swaps the matador's cape for the No.19 shirt and sets the teenager against the Royal Palace of Madrid in graffiti-style landmark art. Then the summer of 2026 turned the metaphor into history. In only his second World Cup appearance, Yamal needed just 598 seconds of his first start to slide home his first World Cup goal against Saudi Arabia — at 18 years and 343 days, the eighth-youngest goalscorer the tournament has ever seen. He collected two Player of the Match awards, against Austria in the Round of 32 and Belgium in the quarter-finals, and on 19 July in New York New Jersey he and Pau Cubarsi became just the fourth and fifth teenagers ever to play in a FIFA World Cup final. Ferran Torres' extra-time strike made it Spain 1, Argentina 0: a second world title for La Roja, the first nation ever to hold the men's and women's World Cups at the same time, with a record-setting single goal conceded across eight matches. A European champion at 17, a world champion at 19 — and a third Ballon d'Or-gala young-talent award followed that October. This Gold Prizm parallel, numbered 09 of just ten, is the landmark edition of that summer: golden refractor foil, Madrid's palace behind the boy in red, graded a flawless PSA GEM MT 10.”