A trophy received by Diego Maradona for his performances on the 1986 World Cup has resurfaced after it was lacking for many years – and is now going up for public sale.
Maradona obtained the Golden Ball trophy after main Argentina to victory on the match in Mexico, the place he scored his controversial “hand of God” objective towards England within the quarter-finals.
In the identical recreation, he additionally scored what FIFA later declared the best objective in World Cup historical past.
Maradona – who died in 2020 at the age of 60 – was awarded the Golden Ball trophy for being the very best participant on the match throughout a ceremony in Paris in 1986.
Nonetheless, the award mysteriously disappeared and its whereabouts have been unknown for many years.
Now Aguttes public sale home says it’s going to go below the hammer subsequent month in Paris, with the trophy anticipated to “fetch thousands and thousands resulting from its uniqueness”.
The trophy’s disappearance gave rise to rumours that it was misplaced throughout a wild poker recreation or offered to repay money owed, Aguttes mentioned.
Others claimed that Maradona had saved the trophy in a protected in a Naples financial institution that was robbed by native gangsters in 1989, when he performed for Napoli in Italy.
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In keeping with one story by a reformed member of the mafia, the trophy was allegedly then melted down into gold items.
However Aguttes mentioned this was a “far-fetched concept on condition that it was product of a gold-copper alloy”.
The public sale home mentioned the trophy reappeared in 2016 amongst different heaps that have been acquired from a personal assortment at public sale in Paris.
“It was completely investigated and authenticated as Diego Maradona’s Adidas Golden Ball trophy,” Aguttes mentioned.
Bidders shall be requested to make a deposit of €150,000 (£129,000) to participate within the 6 June public sale.