{"id":297820,"date":"2023-11-20T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=297820"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:25:08","slug":"the-great-debate-which-piece-of-memorabilia-is-top-of-your-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/the-great-debate-which-piece-of-memorabilia-is-top-of-your-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GREAT DEBATE: Which piece of memorabilia is top of YOUR wishlist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>THE GREAT DEBATE: As Lionel Messi puts his World Cup shirts up to be auctioned for millions, and Chris Sutton tells Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Kicking Off the bit of kit he&#8217;d want&#8230; which piece of memorabilia is top of YOUR wishlist?<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lionel Messi is auctioning a collection of his World Cup shirts today<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Sutton has revealed the one piece of memorabilia he would want\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport wants to know &#8211; which piece of memorabilia is top of your wishlist?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi is expected to break the world record for a piece of sporting memorabilia when a collection of his shirts from last year&#8217;s World Cup &#8211; including the one he wore in the final &#8211; go on sale at an auction today.<\/p>\n<p>As exclusively revealed by Mail Sport, the six tops will be auctioned as a set by Sotheby&#8217;s in New York and are expected to cost in excess of \u00a38million, with a portion of the proceeds going to charity.<\/p>\n<p>The current record for an item of sports memorabilia is Michael Jordan\u2019s Chicago Bulls jersey from the 1998 NBA\u00a0Finals Game 1 &#8211; from the famed \u2018Last Dance\u2019 Netflix season &#8211; which sold for \u00a38.1m in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>But Messi could surpass this figure, with fans likely to be very keen to get their hands on the shirt he donned while winning the World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has auctioned his shirts before, with his 2017 jersey from an El Clasico clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid where he scored an injury-time winner at the Bernabeu proving to be the most expensive to date at \u00a3360,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78020349-12770655-image-m-58_1700484434802.jpg\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi is auctioning six shirts that he wore at last year&#8217;s World Cup in Qatar<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78020329-12770655-image-a-59_1700484462708.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One of the shirts up for sale is the one he wore in the final against France as Argentina claimed their third World Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78020339-12770655-image-a-60_1700484539196.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton has revealed the one football shirt from an icon of the game he would want<\/p>\n<p>He is set to smash that mark this time around, and he could beat the current record for a football shirt which is currently held by his fellow countryman Diego Maradona.<\/p>\n<p>Maradona&#8217;s Hand of God shirt from the infamous 1986 World Cup quarter-final against England sold for \u00a37.1m to an anonymous bidder last year.<\/p>\n<p>It was put up for sale by former England midfielder Steve Hodge, who asked Maradona for his shirt after the match in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>Hodge may have been happy to hand over a Maradona jersey, but Mail Sport columnist Chris Sutton would not be so generous.<\/p>\n<p>Sutton revealed on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Kicking Off podcast that the one shirt he craves is Maradona&#8217;s, who he views as a &#8216;God&#8217; of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Ian Ladyman threw some iconic names Sutton&#8217;s way for him to select from, but the former Blackburn and Chelsea striker needed no time at all to respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I would want Maradona,&#8217; Sutton told Ladyman when asked for the shirt he&#8217;d want the most.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78018287-12770655-In_2022_an_anonymous_bidder_paid_7_1m_for_the_shirt_worn_by_Dieg-a-61_1700484602655.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Diego Maradona&#8217;s Hand of God shirt sold for \u00a37.1m at an auction last year, and Sutton would love to get his hands on a Maradona jersey himself<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78020513-12770655-image-a-62_1700484724693.jpg\" height=\"412\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Like Messi, Maradona won the World Cup, and Sutton believes he&#8217;s the greatest player ever<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d say he was the greatest ever, Maradona. When you look at the footage of him being kicked from pillar to post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Messi, brilliant player, Ronaldo, of course, you know, Pele. Pele was a little bit before my time, I&#8217;ve seen the footage, but I thought Maradona was a God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The attention which he got and people used to tackle him around his waist and he used to just get up and go again. I thought he was the best. The pitches he played on as well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span>Sutton has made his thoughts clear on the memorabilia he&#8217;s after, but what is top of your wishlist?<\/span> <span>Join the debate in the comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12770655\/THE-GREAT-DEBATE-Lionel-Messi-puts-World-Cup-shirts-auctioned-millions-Chris-Sutton-tells-Mail-Sports-Kicking-bit-kit-hed-want-piece-memorabilia-wishlist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GREAT DEBATE: As Lionel Messi puts his World Cup shirts up to be auctioned for millions, and Chris Sutton tells Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Kicking Off the bit of kit he&#8217;d want&#8230; which piece of memorabilia is top of YOUR wishlist?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THE GREAT DEBATE: Which piece of memorabilia is top of YOUR wishlist? 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