The blouse worn via Diego Maradona when he scored the arguable “Hand of God” function towards England within the 1986 International Cup has bought for 7.1 million kilos ($9.3 million), the best worth ever paid at public sale for a work of sports activities memorabilia.
Auctioneer Sotheby’s bought the blouse in a web based public sale that closed Wednesday. It didn’t establish the patron.
Maradona scored two objectives all the way through the quarter-final recreation in Mexico Town on June 22, 1986, simply 4 years after Britain and Argentina had fought a warfare over the Falkland Islands. The Argentine nice’s first function used to be dominated a header, however the ball had bounced off Maradona’s fist, out of sight of the referee.
Maradona mentioned later on that it were scored “a bit of with the top of Maradona, and a bit of with the hand of God.”
Maradona’s 2nd function noticed him dribble the ball previous nearly all of the English group prior to beating goalkeeper Peter Shilton. In 2002, it used to be voted “function of the century” in a FIFA ballot.
Argentina received the sport 2-1 and went directly to win the International Cup.
After the sport Maradona swapped shirts with England midfielder Steve Hodge, who loaned it long-term to England’s Nationwide Soccer Museum in Manchester prior to placing it up on the market.
Maradona, regarded as via many to be the best participant of all time, struggled with cocaine abuse and different excesses and died in November 2020 at age 60.
After Sotheby’s introduced the approaching sale closing month, kinfolk of Maradona expressed doubt the blue No. 10 jersey used to be the blouse the football megastar had worn in the second one part of the sport, when he scored each objectives. The public sale area mentioned the blouse’s establish used to be showed via sports activities memorabilia photo-matching company Solution Photomatching and showed via Sotheby’s leader science officer.
Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s head of streetwear and trendy collectables, mentioned the blouse used to be “a tangible reminder of the most important second now not most effective within the historical past of sports activities, however within the historical past of the twentieth century.”
The former file for sports activities memorabilia used to be $8.8 million paid at a December 2019 public sale for the manifesto that introduced the trendy Olympic motion. The former file for a work of sports clothing used to be $5.64 million for a Babe Ruth New York Yankees jersey in 2019.
The sale costs come with an public sale area price referred to as the patron’s top rate.