Diego Maradona's 1986 World Cup quarterfinal jersey has broken the world record for most spent on a match-worn jersey.
The jersey Argentina's Diego Maradona wore when he scored the "Hand of God" objective against England in the 1986 World Cup has sold at a world record cost of $9.28 million at a bartering at Sotheby's in London.
The last cost outperforms both the past record for a match-worn jersey, which was the $5.64m paid in 2019 on Babe Ruth's 1928-1930 New York Yankees jersey, and the record cost for a piece of sports memorabilia, which remained at $8.8m for the first hand-drawn Olympic proclamation that was sold in 2019 in New York.
Maradona wore the shirt in the quarterfinal against England in 1986 in which he scored both of Argentina's objectives in their 2-1 win. The first was the notorious "Hand of God" objective where he palmed the ball past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton. Maradona, who passed on in November 2020, later said the objective was "a little from the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God."
His subsequent objective is generally viewed as one of the best to effortlessness a World Cup. Maradona got the ball on the midway line, spilled through the England group and dinked it over Shilton to give Argentina a 2-0 lead. It was subsequently named Goal of the Century by FIFA.
Steve Hodge, the previous England midfielder, traded shirts with Maradona after the 1986 match. He had recently turned down expected offers for the shirt, and it had been in plain view in the National Football Museum beginning around 2002. Yet, on April 6, Sotheby's declared the shirt was available to be purchased.
Sotheby's put a gauge of $5m-7.5m on the shirt, and promptly after the sale opening on April 21, there was a first offered of £4m. When the purchaser's superior, upward premium and duty were totally calculated in, the cost surpass the past record of $5.64m on Ruth's jersey.
The posting was not without contention. At the point when Sotheby's reported the sale, Maradona's girl, Dalma, asserted it was not the right jersey. She said the shirt Hodge had was as a matter of fact the jersey Maradona wore in the main portion of that 1986 match, and not the one he had on when he scored the two objectives.
In any case, Sotheby's gone to Resolution Photomatching to freely check Hodge had the right jersey from the last part and it was the "Hand of God" shirt. The purchaser will stay unknown, and barker Brahm Wachter let ESPN know that "whoever gets it, [the jersey] most likely at no point ever surfaces in the future."
This sale comes simply a month after an anonymous bidder burned through $5.516m at sell off on the clubs Tiger Woods used to win every one of the four Majors somewhere in the range of 2000 and 2001. Sources inside the games memorabilia world told ESPN they expect a further blast popular for match-worn jerseys, explicitly from football, throughout the next few months.
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