Most expensive ever: The shirt worn by Diego Maradona in "The Hand of God" has been sold

Former player Steve Hodge, who swapped shirts with the Argentine number 10 at the end of the historic quarter-final in Mexico 1986, sold it for an unprecedented amount

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04/05/2022

Wednesday, 04 May 2022, 19:08

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Fans walk past Diego Maradona's closet (Reuters)

Diego Armando Maradona passed away in November 2020, and if before that he was considered by many to be the best football player of all time and a legend that has never been and never will be like it, since his death the price of historical items he owned and sold at auction skyrocketed and sold at unprecedented amounts.

Tonight (Wednesday) ended an auction in which probably the most valuable individual was offered regarding Maradona's playing career - the shirt he wore in the "Hand of God" game, in which he scored with his hand, then completed a double and led Argentina to the World Cup semi-finals at the expense of England, all The way to win the World Cup.

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Sold for over £ 7 million. The shirt Maradona wore in "The Hand of God" (Photo: GettyImages, Tristan Fewings)

"One of the Most Important Shirts in Football History" (Photo: GettyImages, Tristan Fewings)

The original shirt Maradona wore in that game in Mexico was offered for sale by Steve Hodge, an England international who swapped shirts with Maradona after that historic quarter-final in Mexico.

Hodge recently asked for the shirt back from a museum to which he donated it in 2002 and at the auction demanded a starting price of £ 4 million for it. The most expensive game in history.

The buyer refused to identify himself and at this point remained anonymous.

The most expensive game shirt sold so far belonged to baseball player Babe Roth, the Yankees star about a century ago whose shirt he wore between 1928 and 1930 was sold for £ 4.4 million. -157 thousand pounds "only".

Hodge, by the way, is fighting attempts to prevent the shirt from being sold.

Representatives from Argentina even made the long journey from Buenos Aires to the kingdom in an attempt to return with the shirt and transfer it to the Diego Maradona Museum, but he refused and ahead of the auction clarified: "I have owned the shirt for over 35 years since Diego gave it to me. The shirt will benefit from having one of the most important shirts in the history of the industry. "

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