Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ shirt expected to fetch €4.8m at auction

Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ shirt is going up for action and could sell for as much as £4m (Sotheby’s/PA)

The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored two unforgettable goals to knock England out of the 1986 World Cup, including the so-called ‘Hand Of God’, is set to fetch more than £4m (€4.8m) at auction.

Maradona – one of the greatest footballers of all time, who died in November 2020 at the age of 60 – described his opening goal in the quarter-final tie, where the ball clearly hit the leaping Argentinian’s left arm before nestling in the net, as “a little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God”.