Cristiano Ronaldo 2024-25 Panini Obsidian Neon Green Flood PSA 10 #/3

There are three of these on Earth. One of them is slabbed PSA 10 Gem Mint and it's listed right now at Hobby Syndicate. The 2024-25 Panini Obsidian Neon Green Flood of Cristiano Ronaldo lands at the most loaded moment of his late career: a record-breaking sixth World Cup, a maiden trophy in Saudi Arabia, and a countdown to 1,000 career goals that the data now says lands before New Year's.

What you're actually looking at

Panini Obsidian is the brand's black-optichrome flagship — a base set printed on dark chrome stock, then layered with a "rainbow" of progressively rarer color parallels. The Electric Etch Flood family sits at the top of that rainbow, where the etched chrome pattern floods the entire card face in a single saturated color. The Neon Green Flood is one of the scarcest tiers Panini prints in Obsidian Soccer: this Ronaldo is serial-numbered to just 3 copies.

Then add the grade. This copy is encased in a PSA 10 Gem Mint slab from the most trusted authentication house in the hobby. With a print run of three, a Gem Mint example isn't a card you wait around for — when a numbered-to-three parallel of the most recognizable athlete on the planet surfaces in a 10, it tends to be a now-or-never proposition.

The player: still rewriting records at 41

It would be easy to file a 41-year-old under "legacy." Ronaldo refuses to cooperate. In the 2024-25 Saudi Pro League season he posted 28 goals across 30 matches for Al-Nassr — a goal involvement roughly every 87 minutes — numbers that would headline most strikers half his age. More importantly for his story, that campaign finally ended the trophy drought: Ronaldo lifted his first piece of silverware with Al-Nassr, the club he joined back in early 2023.

For a player whose entire identity is built on collecting trophies and breaking records, closing that particular gap matters. It reframes the Saudi chapter from "lucrative semi-retirement" to "a fourth league he won." That narrative is exactly the kind of thing that keeps a card name relevant to buyers years after the fact.

A record sixth World Cup — happening right now

The timing on this listing is hard to overstate. As it goes live, Ronaldo is captaining Portugal at the 2026 World Cup across the United States, Canada and Mexico. After a quiet 1-1 opener against DR Congo, he answered the critics in emphatic fashion: a brace in Portugal's 5-0 demolition of Uzbekistan in Houston on June 23, which made him the first man ever to score at six different World Cups and Portugal's all-time leading World Cup goalscorer.

Portugal close their group against Colombia on June 27 with knockout qualification in their hands. Whatever happens next, the historical marker is already set in stone — and "scored at six World Cups" is the kind of line that gets attached to a player's name for as long as the sport is played. Cards tied to milestone tournaments tend to hold a premium that outlasts the event itself, the same dynamic we covered with Kylian Mbappé's PSA 10 chrome ahead of the same tournament.

Why the Obsidian Flood, specifically

Ronaldo has thousands of cards. Not all of them are investments — most are not. What separates a card that holds from a card that drifts comes down to three things: scarcity you can verify, a grade that removes condition risk, and a parallel collectors actually chase. This one checks all three.

Verifiable scarcity

"Rare" is the most abused word in the hobby. A serial number is not an opinion. #/3 is stamped on the card; there are three, full stop. That is a different universe from an unnumbered insert or a base parallel that prints into the thousands. When supply is fixed at three and the name on the card is a global top-two-most-famous athlete, demand has nowhere to hide.

The grade does the heavy lifting

Obsidian's chrome surface is notoriously unforgiving — edges chip, surfaces scratch, and centering on Flood parallels can be brutal. A PSA 10 on a numbered-to-three card means you are buying the best-case version of an already tiny population, with the condition guesswork handled by the grader. If you're still learning to read a slab with confidence, our guide on how to spot a fake PSA slab in 2026 is worth a few minutes before any four-figure purchase.

Obsidian is a chase product

Panini Obsidian Soccer has built a reputation as one of the most visually striking case-hit products in the category — the same set that produced the case-hit color we broke down in our Florian Wirtz Obsidian Black Color Blast feature and the 1-of-1 in our Cole Palmer Electric Etch Finite breakdown. Flood parallels are the loud, saturated centerpiece of that rainbow, and the neon green finish is among the most eye-catching colors in the run.

Where Ronaldo's market actually sits

Ronaldo's high end is not theoretical. In May 2025, a 1-of-1 2018 Panini Kaboom from his Juventus era sold for a reported $1.35 million in a Fanatics Collect private sale — one of the largest soccer card transactions ever recorded. A month earlier, his 2002-03 Panini Mega Craques rookie card in a PSA 10 fetched $320,000 at Goldin, a roughly 50% year-over-year jump.

Those are grails in a different price tier than this Obsidian Flood, and they are not direct comparables — different sets, different eras, different print runs. The point is structural, not a price prediction: the ceiling on Ronaldo's serialized and graded cardboard has been moving up, not down, even as he plays out his final seasons. A numbered-to-three modern parallel in a PSA 10 lives in the part of his market that institutional money pays attention to.

The listing

The card is listed and available now: 2024-25 Panini Obsidian #75 Cristiano Ronaldo, Electric Etch Neon Green Flood, serial-numbered /3, slabbed PSA 10 Gem Mint. It's offered with a Best Offer option, so there's room to start a conversation if you're a serious buyer.

The bottom line

You are weighing a card with a fixed supply of three, the top grade PSA hands out, and the name of an athlete who — at 41 — is still setting World Cup records and marching toward a goal total no one in history has ever posted. The scarcity is verifiable, the condition risk is gone, and the player is generating headlines on the biggest stage in the sport while you read this. For a Ronaldo collector or a soccer investor building around blue-chip names, a numbered-to-three Obsidian Flood in a PSA 10 is about as close to a centerpiece card as this product offers.

Where this data comes from

Hobby Syndicate operates as All Star Card Store on eBay. Player stats, World Cup results and career-goal figures current as of June 26, 2026, drawn from Al Jazeera and ESPN World Cup coverage, Sofascore and Olympics.com season data, and sale figures reported by Goal.com and major auction houses. Card scarcity reflects the serial number on the slab.