Card of the Day - 2026-04-04

2020-21 Topps Match Attax Bundesliga
TOPPS [trade/commercial : O/S - Frankfurt, Germany] "Match Attax Bundesliga" (April 2021) 426/753

Hans Fredrick Jensen was born on September 9, 1997 in Porvoo, Uusimaa Region, Finland. Like most footballers, he started young, at a small local club called F.C. Futura, established just five years before. He left them when he was ten, because he moved to a town and club called Honka, which is renowned for its desire to encourage young footballers, and according to its wikipedia site it currently has over a thousand youth players on its books. And it seems that his family moved there because of this fact.

In 2013 they moved again, to the Netherlands, and joined the Twente Academy. This is a training ground for a team that might have only been founded in 1965, but was a merger of SC Enschede (founded in 1910, and winner of the Dutch National Title for the season 1925-1926) and s.v. De Enschedese Boys (founded in 1906, and Champion of the East Netherlands in the season 1949-50). At first he was in the youth team, but rose to the main squad in 2016. 

His International career began in 2017, at the age of nineteen, and he went on to take part in the 2018 World Cup and the 2020 Euros. 

Just two years later he was off again, to F.C. Augsburg, which was in Bavaria, Germany, and a team in the Bundesliga, the equivalent to our first division. They were founded in 1907.  They took him on for three million euros, as a trial, for five-years, and that was indeed extended in 2023, but only as a two year contract. However, the first few months of that were beset by injuries and he did not play until October 2023.

His first cartophilic appearance was on another Topps item, one of the 2018/19 "Bundesliga Stickers", which were only sold in Germany, for 0.70 euros per pack of five stickers. That was the last year before Topps started to introduce the idea of parallel sets and inserts to their Bundesliga sets, for in the 2019-20 packets you could get special cards, namely  "Star Player", "Club Logos", "Match Winners", and "Club 100" sub-series.

Our set came along in April 2021, and also included parallel sets and inserts - these being the same as before, plus "Bundesliga Legends". 

For some reason, our man did not extend the contract in 2025, he moved, to Greece, to play with Aris Thessaloniki, founded in 1914. And today he is still there. Oddly he does not seem to have appeared on any cards with this team, all his appearances being on Bundesliga cards.