Lily Yohannes 2024-25 Panini Obsidian Purple Flood /30 PSA 10

Thirty copies exist. This one is slabbed PSA 10. The 2024-25 Panini Obsidian Electric Etch Purple Flood of Lily Yohannes — the teenager who has already rewritten the Women's Champions League record book and is now scoring worldies for Europe's most decorated women's club — is available now through Hobby Syndicate. If you back young talent before the market catches up, read on.

What you're actually looking at

Panini Obsidian is one of the most distinctive high-end products in the soccer hobby — dark, glassy card stock with the Electric Etch finish that fractures light across the surface. The Purple Flood is a "Flood" parallel, meaning the color washes across the entire card rather than sitting in accents, and it's serial numbered to just 30 copies. On the Obsidian rainbow it slots in as a genuinely scarce tier, between the Orange /40 and the Imperial Jade /26, with the chase ultimately topping out at a Blue Finite 1/1.

This particular copy is locked in a PSA 10 Gem Mint slab — the top numeric grade PSA issues. On a card with a print run of 30, the population of PSA 10 examples is by definition tiny. You are not guessing at corners and centering here; the grade is done, and it's the best one on the ladder.

The player: a record-breaker before she could vote

Lily Yohannes was born on June 12, 2007. On November 15, 2023 — aged 16 — she became the youngest player ever to start a UEFA Women's Champions League group-stage match, and the youngest American to appear in the competition, turning out for Ajax. That is not a "one to watch" line item. That is a record that stays in the books regardless of what happens next in her career.

Her rise in Amsterdam was rapid. She signed with Ajax at 15 in April 2023, was named player of the match in a 2-1 win over AS Roma in January 2024, and collected the Johan Cruyff Talent of the Year award for the 2023-24 Eredivisie season — an honor with serious weight attached to the name on it.

Committed to the USWNT

Yohannes held dual eligibility and could have chosen the Netherlands. She chose the United States. She earned her first senior USWNT call-up in March 2024 and made her international debut on June 4, 2024, against South Korea. Just short of her 17th birthday, she became the third-youngest goal scorer in USWNT history. For a program constantly reloading its midfield, locking in a generational passer this early matters — and from a collecting standpoint, a national-team commitment is exactly the kind of long-runway signal that keeps a young player's cards relevant for years.

The move to OL Lyonnes — and an instant statement

In July 2025, Yohannes signed a three-year contract with OL Lyonnes (the rebranded Olympique Lyonnais women's side), running through June 30, 2028, in a transfer reported around €450,000 with Ajax retaining a sell-on percentage. Lyon is the most successful club in the history of the women's game, so this was a step up to the sport's biggest stage, not a lateral move.

She answered immediately. Yohannes scored on her Lyon debut on September 7, 2025, in a 3-1 win over Marseille. Then, in October 2025, she produced one of the goals of the Women's Champions League season — a long-range lob from near the center circle that caught the St. Pölten goalkeeper off her line, in a 3-0 Lyon victory. Debut goals and Champions League highlight-reel strikes are the moments that pull new eyes to a young player, and by extension, to her cardboard.

Reading the print run: why /30 is a sweet spot

New collectors sometimes assume "lower number is always better," and at the extreme — a true 1/1 — that's clearly the ceiling. But there's a practical reason serious builders gravitate toward parallels in the /15 to /50 band on players like this. A run of 30 is scarce enough that supply is genuinely constrained; on any given day, there may be only a handful of copies listed anywhere in the world, and PSA 10 examples are a fraction of that. Yet /30 is also "liquid" enough that the parallel actually surfaces in the market, changes hands, and builds a visible sales history — unlike a 1/1 that can vanish into a single collection for a decade.

Pair that scarcity with the top numeric grade and you get a specific kind of card: one that is both hard to find and hard to upgrade. If Yohannes' trajectory continues, the collectors chasing her best cards will be competing over a very small pool of exactly this description — a numbered Flood parallel in a Gem Mint slab. That's the structural case for the tier, independent of any price prediction.

The Obsidian look, up close

Beyond the numbers, Obsidian earns its shelf appeal. The black, glass-like stock makes color parallels pop in a way frosted or white-bordered products can't match, and the Purple Flood in particular reads as a single sheet of deep violet light under the case. It photographs well, it displays well, and — for a player whose fanbase skews young and growing — it's the kind of card that travels on social media. Eye appeal is not a stat line, but in the modern hobby it's a real driver of demand, and this parallel has it.

How this fits the broader board

Obsidian has quietly become one of the hobby's favorite homes for eye-catching color, and we've written before about how its parallels behave at the top of the market. If you want to see the apex of the same product line, look at the Cole Palmer Obsidian Blue Finite 1/1 — the single-copy ceiling that a rainbow like this one climbs toward. For a veteran-star comparison in the very same set, the Cristiano Ronaldo Obsidian Neon Green Flood PSA 10 shows how a Flood parallel presents on an established name.

And if you're tracking the wider women's-sports rookie wave — the same collector energy that has reshaped the basketball market — our WNBA rookie cards guide lays out why early buyers in underpriced women's markets have tended to be rewarded. Yohannes sits squarely in that thesis: elite pedigree, a global club, and a card market that hasn't fully priced her in.

What to watch from here

The variables that would push Yohannes' cards from "smart early hold" to "widely chased" are the obvious ones. Continued minutes and goals at OL Lyonnes keep her in front of a global audience every week. A run in the Women's Champions League — the stage where she already owns a record and has already scored a highlight — is the biggest single amplifier available in the club game. And at international level, cementing herself as a fixture in the USWNT midfield through the next major-tournament cycle would give American collectors a hometown reason to buy. None of that is guaranteed, and this is commentary rather than a forecast, but the paths are clear and she's young enough to walk several of them.

The counterpoint is equally worth stating: young players carry risk. Form dips, injuries, and the simple unpredictability of development can stall any prospect. The women's-soccer card market is also still maturing, which means thinner liquidity than the equivalent men's or basketball markets. A /30 PSA 10 mitigates part of that by being a top-of-grade, low-supply anchor rather than a stack of raw commons — but no card is a sure thing, and the disclaimer at the top of this page is there for a reason.

The listing

The card is listed and available now: 2024-25 Panini Obsidian #69 Lily Yohannes, Electric Etch Purple Flood, serial numbered /30, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint. On a parallel this scarce, of a player this young with this much already achieved, the PSA 10 is the copy you want to anchor a collection around.

Where this data comes from

Hobby Syndicate operates as All Star Card Store on eBay. Career facts and transfer details are current as of July 2026, sourced from ESPN, the Olympics.com player profile, and U.S. Soccer reporting. Parallel and print-run details reflect published 2024-25 Panini Obsidian Soccer checklists.