DOHA: The blouse that Diego Maradona wore when he scored his notorious ‘Hand of God’ function towards England in 1986 will pass on show in Qatar right through the Global Cup simply 5 months after it set a file value at public sale, a most sensible reputable stated Saturday. The blouse, which offered for $9.3 million to a secret purchaser, has been loaned to Qatar’s 3-2-1 sports activities museum and can pass on show from Sunday till April 1. Qatar has now not named the blouse’s new proprietor, who paid a then file value for any sports activities memorabilia object, however negotiations are understood to have began simply weeks after the Would possibly 4 public sale.

Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, head of Qatar Museums and a member of the Gulf state’s ruling circle of relatives, stated she used to be “excited” to have secured the blouse for a different Global Cup exhibition. “The jersey has been thru rather a adventure,” she added in a observation to AFP. “Beginning with the instant when Nottingham Wooded area midfielder Steve Hodge swapped jerseys with Maradona after the fit, in what now turns out an impressed transfer.” Maradona scored each targets within the Global Cup quarter-final 2-1 victory over England in Mexico Town’s Aztec Stadium in 1986.

Pele’s proper foot

The sport has transform some of the mentioned in soccer historical past and adorned the mythical standing of Maradona, who died from a middle assault in November 2020 on the age of 60. Dressed in the quantity 10 blouse, Maradona punched the ball previous England goalkeeper Peter Shilton for the primary function, announcing later it were “just a little with the top of Maradona, just a little with the hand of God.” Quickly after, Maradona sped previous 5 English defenders and Shilton to fit house a strike that used to be voted “Function of the Century” in a 2002 FIFA ballot.

Hodge swapped shirts with Maradona and had loaned the blouse to a Manchester museum for twenty years prior to hanging it up on the market the place the nameless purchaser beat six different bidders together with the Argentina Soccer Affiliation. The overall value used to be greater than two times the worth predicted via Sotheby’s. However a jersey worn via basketball legend Michael Jordan used to be offered for $10.1 million on September 16, taking up because the file for the most costly sports activities memorabilia and costliest game-worn blouse.

The Maradona blouse will pass on show on the “Global of Soccer” exhibition with a ball used within the first Global Cup finals in 1930, the primary written account of the foundations of soccer, one in every of simplest two bronze busts ever made from the enduring Brazilian Pele’s proper foot and different jerseys worn via soccer greats. “Most of the pieces displayed on the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports activities Museum are like this: symbols of human interest that experience lengthy, shifting narratives at the back of them,” stated Sheikha Mayassa. “Those gadgets have now taken on a lifetime of their very own as a part of the sector’s culture-inspiring emotion, evoking recollections, and sparking discussion.” – AFP