{"id":269775,"date":"2026-06-04T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=269775"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:14:02","slug":"peles-iconic-1958-world-cup-shirt-heads-to-auction-expected-to-fetch-over-6m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/269775\/","title":{"rendered":"Pel\u00e9\u2019s iconic 1958 World Cup shirt heads to auction, expected to fetch over $6M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pelé’s iconic blue No 10 shirt from the 1958 World Cup final is expected to become one of the most expensive football artefacts ever sold after being put up for auction, The Guardian<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian was 17 when he scored two goals in the 5-2 win over Sweden to secure the Seleção’s first World Cup and write his name into football lore.<\/p>\n

Now Sotheby’s expects the shirt’s rich history will lead to it fetching more than $6m when it goes under the hammer in New York next month.<\/p>\n

That figure would put it, as a single item, behind only the Argentina jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the Hand of God goal against England at Mexico 1986, which sold for $9.3m in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pelé’s iconic blue No 10 shirt from the 1958 World Cup final is expected to become one of the most expensive football artefacts ever sold after being put up for auction, The Guardian writes. The Brazilian was 17 when he scored two goals in the 5-2 win over Sweden to secure the Seleção’s first World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":269736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-sport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269777,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775\/revisions\/269777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}