A shirt worn by Brazilian football legend Pelé during the 1958 FIFA World Cup final sold for $4.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction house in New York this week, making it the second-most expensive football jersey ever sold, according to the BBC.
The jersey was worn by Pelé when, at the age of 17, he scored twice in Brazil’s 5-2 victory over Sweden to win the country’s first World Cup title. Pelé was then and still is the youngest player ever to score in a World Cup final.
The tournament marked the beginning of a legendary international career that ended with Pelé becoming the only player to win three FIFA World Cups.
With 10 bids from more than five bidders, the $4.9 million sales tag for Pelé’s jersey is the highest price ever paid for a piece of Pelé memorabilia at auction and trails only the Argentina shirt worn by Diego Maradona during the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal against England, which went for $9.3 million in 2022.
Pelé’s shirt previously sold for $105,600 in 2004.
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