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Marcelo Ordas told La Nacion+ channel that he "unfortunately" failed with a $6.8 million bid, faced with "an offer from the Middle East that came at the last moment".
The hand of God, the goal of the century and a very precious jersey: after a sale on the internet which lasted two weeks and ignited in the last minutes, with offers and counter-offers, we did not know on Wednesday who put such a sum on the table to afford this relic of the "Pibe de Oro", who died on November 25, 2020.
- Absolute record - And this despite "a very big effort" and the help of "many chefs companies", such as the Spanish defender of FC Barcelona Gerard Piqué and Claudio Tapia.
The shirt Argentine football genius Diego Maradona wore when he crucified England in a legendary 1986 World Cup match has sold for nearly $9.3 million at Sotheby's, breaking all records .
At this price, the blue flocked number 10 jersey breaks the historic record for any sports-related collector's item, held until now by the original manuscript of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's Olympic Games manifesto ($8.8 million in 2019).
The latter dreamed of being able to keep the jersey "at our domain of Ezeiza", the training camp of the Albiceleste selection, on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Last summer, an American house, Julien's Auctions, announced in turn the sale, for more than 100,000 dollars, of a jersey prepared for Zizou for this match, without affirming that it had been worn..
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