That torn, historic shirt took an unexpected path. Once the genie took it out, it was received by the woman who collected them to wash them and get them ready for the next game. However, after the battle that had been that match, she was so damaged that he discarded her. As it was, open in the chest, she gave it to a friend who owned a bar and whose son inherited it. Almost 30 years later, the heir wrote to auction site Matchday Football Auctions to tell him that he had a treasure. And he was not wrong…
It is the shirt used by Diego Armando Maradona in a club with the highest value he has paid at auction. 10 played for him FC Barcelona. It was in the unforgettable ‘Battle of the Bernabéu’, that match against Athletic in the final of the King’s Cup 1984. Everything of course first went through a rigorous certification, with exhaustive documentation and a deep authentication process.
Maradona, with his Barça shirt destroyed after the famous cup final against Athletic
Matchdaythe auction house specialized in soccer, reported that the FC Barcelona shirt worn that night by Maradona reached a value of 145,648.51 dollars, to which we must add the final commission of 23% that raises its price to $179,207.67 (some 152,000 euros to change). Thus it became the most expensive Maradona garment worn in a club in history, apart from the meaning it holds as one of the most outstanding sports memorabilia objects of recent times.
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This very representative shirt was also in the hands of the president of Barcelona, Joan Laportawho posed for one of the photos that Matchday produced for the communication of this historic auction.
Joan Laporta, current president of Barça, with Maradona’s auctioned shirt
