{"id":6807,"date":"2026-07-17T02:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:19:32","slug":"peles-historic-1958-world-cup-jersey-fetches-4-9-million-breaking-memorabilia-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6807","title":{"rendered":"Pel\u00e9\u2019s Historic 1958 World Cup Jersey Fetches $4.9 Million, Breaking Memorabilia Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>A No. 10 jersey worn by Brazil icon Pel\u00e9 in the 1958 World Cup final has been sold for $4.9 million, Sotheby\u2019s said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Pel\u00e9, who died in 2022, was 17 when he scored twice in Brazil\u2019s 5-2 win over hosts Sweden at the Rasunda Stadium and still remains the youngest player ever to score in a World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Sotheby\u2019s said the jersey worn by the Brazilian star is the second-most valuable soccer shirt ever sold. Diego Maradona\u2019s &#8220;Hand of God&#8221; jersey sold in 2022 for $9.3 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The previous most valuable item of Pel\u00e9 memorabilia was $976,000 for a 1958 trading card last month, the auction house said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Edson Arantes do Nascimento \u2014 aka Pel\u00e9 \u2014 had gifted the handmade shirt after the final to his roommate and teammate, Dida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The jersey had remained with Dida\u2019s family for decades before being housed in a Brazilian museum and eventually acquired in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><i>Reporting by the Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY A No. 10 jersey worn by Brazil icon Pel\u00e9 in the 1958 World Cup final has been sold for $4.9 million, Sotheby\u2019s said Thursday. Pel\u00e9, who died in 2022, was 17 when he scored twice in Brazil\u2019s 5-2 win over hosts Sweden at the Rasunda Stadium and still remains the youngest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}