Nuno Mendes

Why this one matters.

“Nuno Mendes' 2025-26 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions Munich '25 Champions Superfractor 1/1 — a one-of-one celebration card from the night Paris Saint-Germain finally conquered Europe. 31 May 2025, Munich: PSG faced Inter Milan in the Champions League final and destroyed every script, winning 5-0 in the most one-sided final the competition's modern era has ever seen, clinching the first European Cup in the club's history. Nuno Mendes — their rampaging left-back — started and starred on the biggest night in Parisian football, his relentless overlapping runs a constant outlet down the flank throughout the rout. The card freezes him moments after the whistle: winner's medal around his neck, the giant trophy gripped in both hands, the unmistakeable smile of a 22-year-old who has just become a European champion. Mendes was immense all season, a relentless two-way force down the flank — overlapping, tackling and creating — and he was named in the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season as PSG swept the treble of Ligue 1, Coupe de France and Champions League. A product of the Sporting CP academy, Mendes moved to Paris in 2021 and developed into one of the three or four best left-backs in world football — athletic, technical and ruthless, the prototype of the modern full-back — and he is already Portugal's undisputed first choice at the position, a Euro 2024 starter with 40-plus caps before turning 24. This is #CC-1 of the Munich '25 Champions insert, the card that exists purely to memorialize that final, wrapped in gold vinyl superfractor and numbered 1/1. The only copy in existence of the night PSG became kings of Europe, with their starting left-back holding the proof.”