{"id":83187,"date":"2023-11-20T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/lionel-messis-world-cup-2022-shirts-to-be-sold-at-auction-and-could-become-most-valuable-ever-collection-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:51:57","slug":"lionel-messis-world-cup-2022-shirts-to-be-sold-at-auction-and-could-become-most-valuable-ever-collection-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/lionel-messis-world-cup-2022-shirts-to-be-sold-at-auction-and-could-become-most-valuable-ever-collection-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi&#8217;s World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction &#8211; and could become most valuable ever collection | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Lionel Messi&#8217;s World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction &#8211; and could become most valuable ever collection | World News<\/h2>\n<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction &#8211; and could become most valuable ever collection | World News<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/11\/70x70\/skynews-lionel-messi-argentina_6366688.jpg?20231120150833\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Football shirts worn by Lionel Messi during Argentina&#8217;s winning run at the World Cup in 2022 are set to go under the hammer &#8211; and are predicted to become the most valuable collection of sports memorabilia ever to sell at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Sotheby&#8217;s estimates the six shirts worn by the Argentina captain in Qatar, including during the nail-biting final against France in December 2022, could fetch more than $10m (about \u00a38m).<\/p>\n<p>Argentina won the final &#8211; and the country&#8217;s third World Cup &#8211; in a penalty shoot-out after a 3-3 draw in which <strong>Messi<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>scored two goals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1\/1\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">Pic: Sam Robles Photography\/Sotheby&#8217;s<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The footballer, 36, shared news of the auction on social media, announcing that a portion of the proceeds would be donated to the Unicas Project, led by the Sant Joan de Deu Barcelona Children&#8217;s Hospital, for children suffering from rare diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan&#8217;s 1998 NBA Finals jersey, which <strong>sold for $10.1m at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York<\/strong> in September 2022, holds the current record for a game-worn item of sports memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of football memorabilia specifically, the current record for a game-worn item is $9.3m, also in 2022, and comes courtesy of another famous Argentinian &#8211; the <strong>shirt worn by Diego Maradona<\/strong> during the 1986 quarter-final 2-1 victory over England, during which he scored his infamous &#8220;Hand of God&#8221; goal.<\/p>\n<p>Sotheby&#8217;s will put Messi&#8217;s shirts up for auction between 30 November and 14 December and they will be on view during these dates at its headquarters in New York as part of a free public exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house is working with US-based tech start-up AC Momento, which partners with high-profile athletes to help manage their match-worn memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more on Sky News:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Four men found guilty of murdering council worker Ashley Dale<\/strong><br \/><strong>Singer hurt &#8216;while restraining backstage intruder&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Messi, who currently plays in the MLS in the US for Inter Miami, the club part-owned by <strong>David Beckham<\/strong>, spent 17 years at Barcelona, winning Spain&#8217;s league on numerous occasions and the European Champions League four times. He has won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, which is presented annually to the game&#8217;s top player, <strong>a record eight times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Brahm Wachter, Sotheby&#8217;s head of modern collectibles, described Argentina&#8217;s World Cup win as &#8220;one of the greatest events in sports history, intrinsically connected to Messi&#8217;s valiant journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/lionel-messis-world-cup-2022-shirts-to-be-sold-at-auction-and-could-become-most-valuable-ever-collection-13012286\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lenkaed.com\" title=\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Lionel Messi's World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction - and could become most valuable ever collection | World News\" href=\"\/\">Lionel Messi&#8217;s World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction &#8211; and could become most valuable ever collection | World News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction &#8211; and could become most valuable ever collection | World News Lionel Messi&#8217;s World Cup 2022 shirts to be sold at auction &#8211; and could become most valuable ever collection | World News Football shirts worn by Lionel Messi during Argentina&#8217;s winning run at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estaql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}