Buzz Break: 2021-22 Topps Bundesliga soccer cards

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The box: 2021-22 Topps Bundesliga soccer cards (hobby box)
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Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 192
Base set completion: 
156 of 200 (78 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Rookie Cards – See all in gallery below

Insert cards: 35 (all in gallery below with RCs and some base)
Team Captain (6) – Dedryck Boyata, Lars Stindl, Branimir Hrgota, Lukas Hradecky, Peter Gulacsi, Jeffrey Gouweleeuw
Foreign Bundesliga Sensations (3) – Ricardo Pepi, Borna Sosa, Jorge Mere
Golden Generation (1) – Emil Forsberg
Record Breakers (1) – Andrej Kramaric
Future Stars (4) – Sidney Raebiger, Armel Bella Kotchap, Jamie Leweling, Anton Stach
Defense Fortresses (5) – Mohamed Simakan, Maxim Leitsch, Gideon Jung, Evan Ndicka, Marvin Friedrich
Sparkle Foil parallels (12) – Robert Lewandowski, Taiwo Awoniyi, Piero Hincapie, Rafael Czichos, Rafael Gikiewicz, Ruben Vargas, Charles Aranguiz, Rani Khedira, Dominik Kohr, Fabian Kłos, Jonas Hofmann, Manuel Riemann
Aqua Foil parallels (1) – Dejan Ljubicic (/199)
Fuchsia Foil parallels (1) – Youssoufa Moukoko (/125)
Golden Generation Gold parallel (1) – Andre Hahn (/50)

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Team Captain Autographs (1) – Branimir Hrgota 

What's Buzz-worthy: Buzz is a soccer newb -- or not even that, really -- but I can't argue against the odds here. That autograph? One in 1,260 packs (five cases). The Gold insert parallel? One in 1,075. The Fuchsia parallel is a big name and one in every other box, while the remainder of what was here was within the odds though technically the Aqua parallel is one in every other box, too, at one in 25. The stock here is super-thin -- the kind where you can easily damage cards with too much pulling pressure opening the packs -- with corner and edge issues quite possible right from the pack. The design is colorful and bold -- a plus vs. some looks -- but the set is large. I didn't find a lot of names I knew from the base run so I'm not sure if it was my box or the build -- with the big cards here it's still an A+ box -- but overall this one felt solid. Lean on the lineup (enough I dropped the Fun Grade a tick) but still enough there to make it interesting. Autographs do not appear to be guaranteed in every box here -- one in five -- so the box prices are a little lower than you might expect but at that price I do think there's decent potential if you land good names among inserts and parallels or key rookies -- there's a lot in this one with all of the parallels for everything and the ink. This box shows they can all deliver together, too, making a cheap box one with a pretty strong result possible.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: A+ (two cards with odds over one in 1,000)
Fun Grade: B+ (may be too simple if you don't land some bigger cards)

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