Six jerseys worn by Messi throughout Argentina’s successful run finally yr’s World Cup have offered for $7.8 million.
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Six jerseys worn by soccer celebrity Lionel Messi throughout Argentina’s successful run finally yr’s World Cup offered for $7.8 million, the public sale home Sotheby’s introduced.
The ultimate value for the shirts, every worn in the course of the first half of considered one of Argentina’s video games on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, is the very best value for an merchandise of sports activities memorabilia this yr, Sotheby’s stated.
Argentina defeated France in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw within the World Cup last, successful its third World Cup.
The victory, wherein Messi scored two of Argentina’s three objectives, represented a crowning second for one of many sport’s greatest-ever gamers.
“These historic shirts will not be solely a tangible reminder of some of the essential moments within the historical past of sports activities, however are principally linked to the top second within the profession of essentially the most embellished soccer participant in historical past,” Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s head of contemporary collectibles, stated in a press release.
The shirts have been on show at Sotheby’s New York headquarters in the course of the two-week on-line public sale that ended Thursday.
No info on the successful bidder was launched.
Sotheby’s stated a portion of the public sale proceeds could be donated to the UNICAS Venture, led by Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Kids’s Hospital with the help of the Leo Messi Basis, to assist kids affected by uncommon ailments.
The 36-year-old Messi, who at the moment performs for Inter Miami within the MLS, spent 17 years at Barcelona. He has gained the Ballon d’Or, which is introduced yearly to the sport’s prime participant, a file eight instances.
Sotheby’s had hoped that the Messi shirts may set an public sale file for game-worn sports activities memorabilia, however that didn’t happen.
The file for a game-worn merchandise of sports activities memorabilia stays Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals jersey, which offered for $10.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York final yr.
