‘Messi’ opens auction for 6 World Cup shirts, price may beat ‘Diego Maradona’ record

Lionel Messi, superstar of the Argentine national team of Inter Miami is auctioning off six of the shirts he wore on the pitch at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, including the shirt from the final where the team beat France on penalties.

The 36-year-old star has done an excellent job. He played an important role in helping Argentina win the World Cup for the third time, scoring 7 goals and receiving the award for best footballer of the tournament.

Recently, Messi decided to auction off the shirt he wore in the 2022 World Cup final in which Argentina beat France on penalties along with other national team shirts. In the said tournament, another 5, for a total of 6, went through Sotheby’s, the agent who brokered the auction.

It is expected that the set of Lionel Messi’s competition shirts will have an auction price of nearly 10 million pounds, or approximately 440 million baht, if the auction amount actually reaches there. It will break the auction record for a match shirt belonging to the late Diego Maradona, the legendary star player of the Blue and White team.

By Diego Maradona’s match shirt in the match that gave him the nickname The “Hand of God” worn by the England national team in the 1986 World Cup game was auctioned for as high as 7.1 million pounds, or about 310 million baht, in 2022.

Part of the proceeds from the auction will be donated to the UNICAS project of SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital to help children with difficult-to-treat diseases through the support of the foundation. of Lionel Messi