“I think we all now realize he’s a (star),” Maradona said after another meeting in 2015.
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The current record for a game-worn item of soccer memorabilia is a shirt Diego Maradona wore in Argentina's infamous 1986 quarterfinal 2-1 victory over England, where he infamously scored one goal with his hand, a goal he said owed much to the “Hand of God.” That sold for $9.3 million at Sotheby's in London in May 2022.
Messi World Cup shirts will be auctioned. Sotheby's thinks they could fetch record over $10 million
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