Legendary footballer Maradona’s daughter claims the wrong Argentine national team shirt at auction

Dalma Maradona, the eldest daughter of former footballer Diego Maradona, claims that the wrong Argentine national team shirt was put up for auction.

She said the shirt put up for auction was actually what her father wore in the first half of the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals.

Steve Hodge, a former England national who says Maradona exchanged shirts with him, is likely to earn more than £ 4 million a shirt.

The auction house, Sotheby’s, refuted the daughter’s claim that an independent company had provided a “convincing photo-fit” to the shirt, proving its authenticity.

Sotheby’s also noted that Maradona himself had previously confirmed that he had exchanged shirts with Hodge after the legendary 1986 tournament.

Dalma Maradona, on the other hand, explains that the shirt her father wore in the second half, when he scored one of the most famous goals in the history of the World Cup finals, is owned by someone else, but refused to name him.

“It’s not the right shirt. I don’t want to say who owns it, because it would be wrong. Diego said, ‘How am I going to give him the most important shirt of my life?’ “His daughter told reporters.

“We wanted to confirm this so that people who would like to buy a shirt know the truth,” Maradon’s daughter told Channel 13 in an interview.

“Maradona did wear a different shirt in the first half of the game, but there are obvious differences between the two shirts. representative.

The process of matching the photos involved analyzing the shirts, checking the symbols, stripes and numbers.

Maradona himself admitted in his autobiography that he had given Hoj a shirt after the game.

“On the way to the locker room, one of the English players, who turned out to be Hodge, asked me to exchange shirts with him. I said yes and we did,” Maradona wrote in his 2016 memoir about Argentina’s 1986 World Cup final.

A spokeswoman for Sotheby’s also confirmed that the shirt has been in the National Football Museum in England for the past two decades.

“There have never been claims that this is not the right shirt,” she added.

This is not the first time that the authenticity of a football shirt has been questioned. In 2018, the shirt worn by Zinedin Zidana in the final match of the 1998 World Cup was removed from the auction after the authenticity of the shirt was questioned.

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