Bronze medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the former player of soccer Amaral revealed yesterday to UOL what sold your medal and participated in the UOL News 2020 Olympics to explain how he decided to sell and gave an estimate of the value, considering that it was above R$ 20 thousand, although he prefers not to say the exact value.
“There’s a collector, I can’t reveal his name, he said to me ‘I buy a shirt, what do you have to sell?’. I have a Brazilian Championship trophy, Copa Italia and there’s an Olympic medal I won in Atlanta.’ Send a picture so I can see the status of the medal’, I sent it to him and he said ‘it’s pretty damn beautiful’. I even put a lemon on it to make it shine. He said ‘I’ll give you so much’. It’s over R$ 20 thousand , I won’t say the rest,” says Amaral.
The former player explained that he used lemon on the medal to give it shine because it was acidic and says that when he wants to remember, he is content with a photo.
“I was a guy who never got attached, because whoever lives from history is a museum. I’ve really conquered it, understand? Everyone knows I won the bronze medal, so she doesn’t need to be with me in my house, waking up every day of morning, ‘I won this medal here,'” says Amaral.
“We can’t reveal the price, but we paid the bill. It’s the same thing, if you borrow money from the bank, you’ll have to pay the bank, so it’s easier for you to get rid of your investments, the medal it was an investment, I didn’t know it would be worth so much, if I were to sell it today it was in euros, at that time it wasn’t in euros. I sold swim trunks, shirts, we sell everything. The swim trunks were cheaper, it was R$1,000” , concludes.
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