2022 Panini Prizm World Cup Qatar Green Lionel Messi /5 #7 PSA 9 MINT

Argentina waited. Lionel Messi waited. A large crowd inside Qatar’s Lusail Stadium waited. Millions of television viewers around the world waited. Argentina had not won the World Cup since 1986. Lionel Messi had not won a World Cup in four tries, dating back to 2006. As for the crowd and millions of viewers, they had only waited a couple of hours. But all waited on the edge of their seat for the dramatic conclusion to one of the greatest World Cup Finals in history, as Argentina and France needed penalty kicks to declare 2022’s international soccer champion. Messi scored twice to pace Argentina against the defending-champion Frenchmen, but his then-Paris Saint-Germain teammate, French superstar Kylian Mbappé, secured a hat trick to deadlock the score at 3-3 and force the World Cup Final to penalty kicks for the third time in history. Messi struck again, as did three of his Argentine teammates, to secure the victory over France—snapping the drought that had gripped the country and its brightest star, who lived out his “childhood dream” of hoisting the 18-karat gold FIFA World Cup Trophy. Although Panini produced several sets in conjunction with the tournament and Messi's pinnacle achievement, 2022 Panini Prizm World Cup is the release that reached the most widespread acclaim. Like all products under the Prizm banner, the base version comes with an extensive lineup of Prizms parallels. Here, there are 36 different color and pattern combinations. Of those, only Black (1/1), Breakaway Black (1/1), Choice Nebula (1/1) and Gold Power (1/1) have fewer copies than this /5 Green Prizms. This Mint 9 is a pop 3 in the PSA registry with none higher. The certification number on this card has been checked against the third-party grader's online database and is active as of 05/19/2026.