The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored two targets to knock England out of the 1986 World Cup, together with the so-called ‘Hand of God’ aim, has offered for a record-breaking sum at public sale.
The Argentinian, hailed as one of many biggest gamers of all time, described his opening aim within the quarter-final, the place he punched the ball into the online, as “slightly with the pinnacle of Maradona, and slightly with the hand of God”.
He then dribbled previous a number of England gamers to attain once more previous goalkeeper Peter Shilton. That effort was later voted the ‘aim of the century’.
England midfielder Steve Hodge, who unintentionally flicked the ball to Maradona within the build-up to the ‘Hand of God’ aim, swapped shirts together with his rival after the sport and has owned it ever since.
The shirt, which has spent the final 20 years on mortgage on the Nationwide Soccer Museum in Manchester, went beneath the hammer at Sotheby’s on Wednesday afternoon for £7,142,500 – marking a brand new public sale file for any merchandise of sports activities memorabilia.
The public sale home described the well-known blue quantity 10 jersey on its web site as in “good total situation in step with heavy use, perspiration and athletic exercise” with “slight de-threading on hemming on the entrance backside of blouse, and minor spots all through”.
Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s head of streetwear and trendy collectables, stated: “This historic shirt is a tangible reminder of an vital second not solely within the historical past of sports activities, however within the historical past of the twentieth century.
“Within the weeks since we introduced the public sale we have now been inundated by sports activities followers and collectors alike, with a palpable pleasure within the air in the course of the general public exhibition – and this unfiltered enthusiasm was echoed within the bidding.
“That is arguably probably the most coveted soccer shirt to ever come to public sale, and so it's becoming that it now holds the public sale file for any object of its type.”
The sport got here 4 years after the UK had defeated Argentina within the Falklands Warfare and took on better significance for each international locations because of this.
In his autobiography, Maradona, who died in November 2020 on the age of 60, stated: “It was like beating a rustic, not a soccer group.”
The earlier public sale file for any sports activities memorabilia was the unique autographed manuscript of the Olympic Manifesto from 1892, which offered at Sotheby’s for 8.8 million US dollars in December 2019.
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