Maradona 'Hand of God' football sells for £2.5m
The auction price topped $3 million, far below the $9.3 million fetched by Maradona’s match shirt in 2022.
- On Saturday, the Adidas Azteca ball used by Diego Maradona for his famous "Hand of God" goal sold for $3.35 million at Heritage Auctions in the United States.
- Maradona scored the controversial goal 40 years ago in Mexico City, outjumping England goalkeeper Peter Shilton during the 1986 World Cup quarter-final.
- Tunisian Ali Bin Nasser, who refereed the match, collected the ball at full-time and kept it for more than three decades before selling it at auction in 2022 for $2.37m.
- The auction result fell short of expectations that the historic item might command a figure of around $10m, despite reaching $3.35 million.
- Four minutes after the controversial opener, Maradona beat five players to score his celebrated solo goal, helping Argentina secure a 2-1 win and eventually lift the World Cup.
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He is a piece of football history: the ball that Diego Maradona throws with his hand into the goal at the 1986 World Cup. Now this Adidas Azteca is auctioned for several million euros. The organizer hoped for even higher bids.
Heritage Auctions sold the ball of Maradona's most famous goal — and of the history of the Worlds — but the value fell far short of expected. In 2022, the jersey of the same game was worth more.
First was the hand of God, then the foot of the soccer god in the game. Diego Maradona shoots Argentina against England in the World Cup final in 1986. The ball was auctioned 40 years later for a million-dollar sum
Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ football sells for US$3.35 million at US auction
The football with which Diego Maradona scored his “Hand of God” goal against England at the 1986 World Cup has sold at auction for US$3.35 million. The sale price achieved by Heritage Auctions in the United States was around US$6.7 million below the US$10 million estimate. The Dallas-based auction house had placed a US$2.5 million starting price on the Adidas Azteca ball. Maradona scored twice in Argentina’s quarter-final victory over England on…
Washington, 24 Aug (EFE).- Diego Armando Maradona's Hand of God ball was sold by auction for $3.35 million ($2.9 million) at Heritage Auctions, in the United States, this weekend. The sale of the ball, with which the legendary footballer converted the goal of the "Hand of God" for Argentina to England in the 1986 World Cup, finally failed to meet the expectations that had been created. The auction, which began with a base price of 2.5 million an…
The football of the historic Argentina-England of Mexico 1986 went to auction with the expectation of reaching 10 million dollars, but the bid ended much earlier.The blue shirt that used the Ten that afternoon was sold in 2022 for almost 9 million dollars and remains one of the most expensive sports pieces in history.
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