Maradona’s jersey from the goal of the century became the most expensive in sporting history

Diego Maradona died in 2020, but his symbolism remains priceless, as confirmed by auction house Sotheby’s, which on April 20 auctioned a shirt of his, the most famous of all time.

Which, of course, she wore in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup as an Argentine footballer where he scored the masterpiece goal where he passed half of England’s national team but also the famous goal with his hand when Steve Hodge had it in his possession and finally made the decision to sell this rare football heirloom via this particular international house.

The shirt was auctioned off for two weeks and estimates put the sale price at between £4m and £6m, but the end result was even more impressive as the price skyrocketed.

Notably, it reached £7,142,500 and is now considered the most expensive jersey in the history of world sport, beating the previous record owned by a Baby Ruth jersey from 1928-1930, one of the top -Women players the history of baseball which sold for £4,440,000 in June 2019.

It is recalled that the The Argentina national team’s jerseys in this game were not the authentic ones that had been sourced for the tournament.

Complaints from players about the heat in Mexico City combined with the look of the cotton raising the temperature even further prompted a janitor to buy thinner jerseys from a store in the country.

Subsequently, he sewed on the Argentinian badges and ironed the numbers, making a look that’s now costing millions.