The shirt of legendary Brazilian forward Pelé, in which he scored a brace in the 1958 World Cup final, was sold at auction for $4.9 million. According to Sotheby's, it became the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia associated with the King of Football.

Bidding for the blue No. 10 shirt, which the then 17-year-old Pelé wore as he helped Brazil thrash tournament hosts Sweden 5-2 in Stockholm and win the country's first-ever World Cup title, was intense: five buyers made a total of 10 bids.

The sale made Pelé's jersey the second most expensive football shirt in auction history. The record belongs to Diego Maradona's shirt from the 1986 match against England, in which the Argentine scored the famous "Hand of God" goal — it was sold in 2022 for $9.3 million, Reuters writes.

Pelé, who died in 2022 at the age of 82, scored twice in the decisive match of the 1958 World Cup and remains to this day the youngest goalscorer in World Cup final history.

According to Sotheby's, the same shirt had previously gone up for auction: in 2004, it was sold for £70,505 (about $105,600 at the exchange rate at the time).