{"id":1048692,"date":"2022-04-07T18:28:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/07\/maradona-hand-of-god-shirt-for-4m-auction\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T18:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:28:37","slug":"maradona-hand-of-god-shirt-for-4m-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/07\/maradona-hand-of-god-shirt-for-4m-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Maradona &#8216;Hand Of God&#8217; Shirt For \u00a34m Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Officials failed to spot Diego Maradona using his hand to score and knocking England out the 1986 World Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored his infamous \u201cHand of God\u201d goal against England at the 1986 World Cup is expected to sell for at least \u00a34 million ($5.23 million), auctioneer Sotheby\u2019s said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The shirt is owned by former England midfielder Steve Hodge, who swapped jerseys with Maradona after Argentina won the match 2-1 thanks to two goals by the forward, the second a solo effort that is considered to be one of the greatest ever scored.<\/p>\n<p>It was Hodge\u2019s attempted back pass that Maradona chased before using his hand to push the ball past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton for the first goal. Following Maradona\u2019s death in 2020, Hodge said the shirt was not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian great Pele\u2019s jersey from the 1970 World Cup final is the most expensive soccer shirt sold at auction, according to Guinness World Records. It fetched \u00a3157,750 in 2002, over three times the expected price.<\/p>\n<p>Maradona, who led Argentina to World Cup glory in 1986, is widely considered one of the greatest ever footballers. He died at age 60 from a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials failed to spot Diego Maradona using his hand to score and knocking England out the 1986 World Cup The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored his infamous \u201cHand of God\u201d goal against England at the 1986 World Cup is expected to sell for at least \u00a34 million ($5.23 million), auctioneer Sotheby\u2019s said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1083,540,326,7210,335],"class_list":["post-1048692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-auction","tag-god","tag-hand","tag-maradona","tag-shirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}