Pele auctions replica World Cup trophy for £395k

Brazilian legend Pele is auctioning off his entire collection of football memorabilia including the three World Cup winning trophies, momentos from his professional debut for Santos FC at age 15, in 1956, even his old passports, copy of the original World Cup award the Jules Rimet Trophy and over 2000 items in auction fetched over £3.6m. A special replica World Cup trophy, which had been made for the 75-year-old after Brazil’s third World Cup victory in 1970 Mexico Olympics, was the most expensive individual lot, with Swiss watchmaking giant Hublot making the final bid. The World Cup winner’s medal from 1970 fetched £346, 000 on the final day of the sale, while his 1000^th game crown went for £162,000. Pele’s 1958 and 1962 World Cup medals were sold collectively for £340,000 while a replica of the Jules Rimet Trophy made for Pele after his third World Cup success went for £394,000.

Pele’s medal from his first World Cup victory in 1958, when he was a teenager, sold for £200,000- well over the estimated price of £70,000-£140,000. The other one of the two was sold on Wednesday – from the 1962, World Cup win in Chile –reached £140,000. The items were sold on the second day of the three-day sale held in London but under the banner of Los Angeles auction house Julien’s Auctions. On the first day of the auction on Tuesday a pair of football boots he wore in the film Escape To Victory went for £8,000. A slice of the proceeds from the sale will go to Pequeno Principe, the largest children’s