A collection of six shirts Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi wore during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have sold for almost $8 million at auction in New York, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
The collection of six match-worn shirts sold for $7.8 million after bidding closed. It was the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia sold this year and the auction record for any Messi memorabilia.
Sotheby's said the previous record for a match-worn shirt by Messi was the Barcelona shirt he wore during the 2017 El Clasico against Real Madrid, which sold for $450,000 in 2022.
The collection features the white and sky-blue kit that Messi wore during the first half of the World Cup final against France.
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