LONDON – The shirt worn by Brazilian soccer ace Pele during his country‘s 4-1 thrashing of Italy in the final of the 1970 World Cup smashed all records at an auction in London on Wednesday. The Yellow and green number „10“ team shirt sold to a private collector whose telephone bid of 157,750 pounds ($224,600) more than tripled its pre-sale estimate and topped the previous world record by more than 50 percent. The previous record for a soccer shirt sold at auction was held by Geoff Hurst whose team top from England‘s 1966 World Cup final 4-2 victory over Germany fetched 91,750 pounds in 2000. „We are absolutely delighted by the sale of the Pele shirt,“ Rick Pike, spokesman for auctioneers Christie‘s, told Reuters. „This is an incredible result.“

Reuters