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2026 Wild Card Matte Metal Soccer: Brushed Oil and Multi-Player Autos

A painted-art branch and football connections give this 67-player release its strongest collecting threads.

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Wild Card Matte Metal Soccer Alessandro Nesta base autograph-design preview

2026 Wild Card Matte Metal Soccer combines a 67-player checklist with painterly inserts and multi-player autograph pairings. Its six main families are Base, Premium Base, Brushed Oil, Artist Proof, Dual Autographs and Triple Autographs.

Wild Card groups Matte Metal Soccer with its June 2026 releases. The roster includes current stars such as Messi, Ronaldo, Yamal and Haaland, while the autograph combinations make room for connections among retired greats.

A clear base design and a painted alternative

Alessandro Nesta’s base autograph-design preview uses green-and-white bands around his blue shirt, with a gold lower field and a generous white signature panel. The portrait stays prominent, and the layout puts the signing area directly below the player.

The base family uses White, Platinum, Black and Gold subsets, each in a and b series. Four background treatments—Flowing, Stripes, Soccer Ball and Checkered—add another visual choice. Unsigned White a cards are /10, White b /5, Platinum a /3 and Platinum b /2; Black a and b are /5 and /3, while Gold a and b are 1/1. The autograph entries are one-of-ones.

Federico Valverde’s Brushed Oil preview is much more expressive. Blue-and-gold brush effects cross the image, turning the player portrait into part of a painted composition. The official signed-design previews have blank autograph panels, allowing the layout itself to be seen clearly.

Brushed Oil has seven variants, a through g, and four player poses. Signed and unsigned cards are True 1/1s. Artist Proof takes a related painterly approach through five variants, likewise listed as True 1/1s.

Premium Base and multi-player signatures

Premium Base uses Rainbow /5, Lava /3 and Gold 1/1 for unsigned cards, with five background variations on each board. Its autograph entries are one-of-ones. The checklist also distinguishes two player poses through the digit after the initials in the card number.

Dual and Triple Autographs are described as on-card signatures, spread across Mirror, Rainbow, Gold, Lava and Mosaic foil boards, each numbered 1/1. Listed dual pairings include Alessandro Nesta with Andrea Pirlo and with Fabio Cannavaro. The triple list includes Andrés Iniesta, Cesc Fàbregas and Sergio Busquets, plus a Cafu, Kaká and Ronaldo Nazário combination.

Those pairings offer a different attraction from a solo parallel: related football names sharing the same card, alongside the release’s painterly individual designs. The manufacturer checklist details the combinations, poses and parallel groups; its 2026 release index places the collection in June.

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