A lot has been made of Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi being the first players to play in 6 men's World Cup's this summer. But there is one more legend who could join them, Mexico's Guillermo Ochoa. At 41 years old, he is currently playing in Cyprus of all places for AEL Limassol. He served as a backup keeper for Mexico most recently in the Gold Cup. Mexico plays and hosts South Africa in the opener for the World Cup, on June 11, at the legendary Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. How awesome would it be if he not only made the squad, but was able to get some minutes between the sticks in that opening game? It would be a brilliant and emotional beginning to the World Cup. He would be the first player to do it with Messi and CR7 opening up their games a few days later. Attached is one of my favorite NFTs on the Panini platform. Incredible Mexico Team color match from the Saga set. Buena suerte, Leyenda!!!!!!

Shared a post about Ochoa's jersey number on Mantel a few months ago.

Latest update from Panini on their status of the Bridge. You will have the option to hold your NFT in your wallet on Ethereum. Not a techie, but sounds like you have the option hold your NFT on the Ethereum platform or keep it on Panini's Private Platform (Sawtooth). It will be an interesting start to 2026 on the Panini NFT channel.

Looks like New Yolk City has some different clans. Anyone recall that great movie, The Warriors. Can you dig it!!!! The Warriors Original Trailer (Walter Hill, 1979) I also posted on the Main Mantel page this weekend about the Bag Egg Co. and their Anichess collaboration.

Here is the breakdown of the drop:

Panini Blockchain will release Prizm Bad Eggs – Introducing the Clans. The packs will feature all new characters from six different groups of Bad Eggs. They will also feature the debut of the Glitch variation – which is the first time Panini Blockchain is implementing video into the frame of a digital trading card.

🗓 WHEN: This Friday at 8.00 am

Price: $20 per pack

The Base cards feature 30 new Bad Eggs characters from six new teams:

- Lucha Libre

- Kabuki Clan

- Mythics

- Silver Punks

- Zombie Mob

- Golden Crew.

There will also be a horizontal team cardset called The Clans, which features the five members of the new teams. The packs will also contain the new Glitch cards.

Packs will contain two digital cards each – 1 Uncommon from Base or The Clans (#/269) and a 1 additional card that is Rare, Epic or Legendary (#/149 to 1/1).

🎮 GAME ON:

- There will be a collection challenge for the Prizms Blue parallel.

- There will be a challenge-craft combo requiring cards from both BE releases, which will reward users with a special Golden Variation of the top 7 characters from the initial Bad Eggs release – Benny, Shelby, Helz, OV, Coby, Flokz and Slice.

Holders of the Toikido-minted Bad Eggs will receive a special Prizms Green parallel minted to #/45. 💎 🖐 🎁

PACK BREAKDOWN:

Total Packs – 9,679 packs

Base – Prizms Silver (/269); Prizms Yellow (/149); Prizms Red (/79); Prizms White Ice (/25); Prizms Gold (/10); Prizms Black (1/1)

The Clans – Prizms Silver (/269); Prizms Yellow (/149); Prizms Red (/79); Prizms White Ice (/25); Prizms Gold (/10); Prizms Black (1/1)

Glitch (#/25)

Toikido's Bad Eggs are having a busy holiday season of shipping. ETA for dropping their second set of NFT's on the Panini platform is rumored to be a couple of weeks. Not stopping there, the Eggs are rolling out a new collaboration with Anichess via Animoca Brands. Anichess - Chess with a Drop of Magic Anyone here playing Anichess? Looks interesting. Wonder if Victor is on Anichess. Victor Wembanyama showed up to play chess with fans in New York City 😂 Would love to see Benny take on Victor.