{"id":39885,"date":"2026-07-17T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39885"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:33:20","slug":"iconic-pele-shirt-becomes-the-second-most-valuable-football-jersey-in-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/iconic-pele-shirt-becomes-the-second-most-valuable-football-jersey-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Pel\u00e9 shirt becomes the second most valuable football jersey in history \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jersey worn by Brazilian football icon Pel\u00e9 during the 1958 World Cup final has just sold for a staggering $4.9 million at an auction in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The massive price tag instantly makes it the second most expensive football shirt in history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pel\u00e9 was just a teenager when he wore the yellow shirt, scoring twice against hosts Sweden to hand Brazil its first-ever World Cup trophy. To this day, the late legend, who passed away in 2022 at age 82, holds the record as the youngest player to ever score in a World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The all-time football record still belongs to Diego Maradona. Four years ago, the shirt Maradona wore when he scored the famous &#8220;Hand of God&#8221; goal against England in 1986 fetched a mind-blowing $9.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39886,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-39885","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Pel\u00e9\u2019s maiden World Cup final shirt sold for millions at US auction","published_date":"2026-07-17 17:32:13","news_description":"Pel\u00e9\u2019s maiden World Cup final shirt sold for millions at US auction","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39887,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39885\/revisions\/39887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}