Soccer · REFERENCE ENTRY
Lionel Messi
2004–05 · Panini Sports Mega Cracks · #71
Messi’s dribbling-image Mega Cracks rookie, cataloged by PSA as #71.
- Sport
- Soccer
- Year / season
- 2004–05
- Set
- Panini Sports Mega Cracks
- Number
- #71
- Format
- Card
- Issue status
- Rookie card
About this card
Lionel Messi’s 2004–05 Panini Sports Mega Cracks card is number 71 in that release. This card comes from the Panini Sports Mega Cracks release.
The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.
How to identify it
Record the brand, year and number together: the same player often has several similar cards from one season, and the number alone can point to the wrong one.
In Lionel Messi’s run
Lionel Messi has 3 entries in this catalog, from 2004–05 to 2024–25, and this is the earliest of them. Nearby entries are listed below, so you can compare the releases that sit around this one.
- Lionel Messi, 2014 Panini Prizm World Cup #12
- Lionel Messi, 2024–25 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions — Starball Legends #SL-10
In the 2004–05 checklist
This is the only entry from the 2004–05 Panini Sports Mega Cracks release in the catalog so far. The full release has more cards; this page covers the one cataloged here.
What to know about this issue
- PSA identifies this exact 2004–05 Mega Cracks issue as a Messi rookie.
- This entry preserves PSA’s #71 identifier. Match the complete edition and printed reverse rather than assuming every Messi Mega Cracks listing is the same card.
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Source reviewed 2026-10-07. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.
No assigned grade, market value or verified offer is supplied by this reference entry.
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The issue stays 2004–05 · Panini Sports Mega Cracks. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.
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