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One of Diego Maradona’s daughters says that the shirt to be auctioned on 20 April by Sotheby’s auction house is not her father’s.
“It’s not that one. I can’t reveal who has it, but it’s madness. It’s not that man (Steve Hodge, England’s player that day),” Dalma Maradona told the Argentine press. The shirt for sale, she said, was worn by her father during the first half of an Argentina match against England in 1986. She said Diego Maradona told her at the time: “How can I give him the shirt of my life? She said that Diego Maradona had said to her at the time: “How can I give him the shirt of my life ?“, referring to the shirt in which he scored two goals in that historic 2-1 victory, including a goal with his hand and the famous “goal of the century“, dribbling half a goal into the net.
A spokesman for Sotheby’s on Thursday refuted Dalma Maradona’s claims : “There was indeed another shirt worn by Maradona in the first half, but there are clear differences between this shirt and the one worn during the two goals. So, before putting this shirt up for auction, we did some scientific research to make sure that this shirt was actually worn by Maradona in the second half, when he scored those two goals.”
The auction house says it relied on an expert appraisal carried out by a specialised company based on photographs of the match, but also on the account of the World Cup co-written by Maradona and journalist Daniel Arcucci, in which the Argentine playmaker “remembers giving it to Hodge at the end of the match“.
Steve Hodge, who has said for 35 years that he exchanged shirts with Maradona at the end of the match, has entrusted it to the National Football Museum in England for 18 years. “It has never been alleged that it was the wrong (jersey),” a spokesman for Sotheby’s said. A spokesman for Sotheby’s stressed.
“This player thinks he has my dad’s second half shirt, but there is confusion, it is the first half shirt. We want to clarify this so that people who want to buy it know the truth,” Dalma Maradona said on Canal 13 television on Wednesday evening. Maradona died in Buenos Aires on 25 November 2020, aged 60, of a heart attack, taking with him, among other secrets, that of this exchange of shirts with Steve Hodge.
The stakes are high for Sotheby’s, which has estimated the item at £4-6 million ($5.2-7.8 million), with a starting price of £4 million. On its website, Sotheby’s highlights a guarantee provided by Resolution Photomatching, a company that specialises in authenticating sports jerseys through images.
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One of Diego Maradona’s daughters says that the shirt to be auctioned on 20 April by Sotheby’s auction house is not her father’s.
“It’s not that one. I can’t reveal who has it, but it’s madness. It’s not that man (Steve Hodge, England’s player that day),” Dalma Maradona told the Argentine press. The shirt for sale, she said, was worn by her father during the first half of an Argentina match against England in 1986. She said Diego Maradona told her at the time: “How can I give him the shirt of my life? She said that Diego Maradona had said to her at the time: “How can I give him the shirt of my life ?“, referring to the shirt in which he scored two goals in that historic 2-1 victory, including a goal with his hand and the famous “goal of the century“, dribbling half a goal into the net.
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One of Diego Maradona’s daughters says that the shirt to be auctioned on 20 April by Sotheby’s auction house is not her father’s.
“It’s not that one. I can’t reveal who has it, but it’s madness. It’s not that man (Steve Hodge, England’s player that day),” Dalma Maradona told the Argentine press. The shirt for sale, she said, was worn by her father during the first half of an Argentina match against England in 1986. She said Diego Maradona told her at the time: “How can I give him the shirt of my life? She said that Diego Maradona had said to her at the time: “How can I give him the shirt of my life ?“, referring to the shirt in which he scored two goals in that historic 2-1 victory, including a goal with his hand and the famous “goal of the century“, dribbling half a goal into the net.
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