Cristiano Ronaldo surpasses Lionel Messi as match-worn Portugal shirt smashes auction record
A shirt worn by Cristiano Ronaldo has smashed an auction record – knocking great rival Lionel Messi off top spot in the process.
Ronaldo jersey goes on sale at auctionTops list for most valuable match-worn shirtsPortuguese edges out great rival MessiFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
MatchWornShirt.com has revealed that the top donned by Ronaldo during Portugal's 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Armenia, where the 40-year-old bagged a brace, is currently at ÂŁ61,657 (€71,0126) in a live auction. Even with four days to go, the Portuguese's shirt has surpassed the website's previous number one sale – Messi's Paris Saint-Germain-worn jersey against Reims in 2023. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ronaldo and Messi's shirts make up eight of the top 10.
AdvertisementGetty Images/GOALMATCHWORNSHIRT’S TOP 10 MOST VALUABLE SHIRTSCristiano Ronaldo – €71,026 (ÂŁ61,657)Lionel Messi – €55,019 (ÂŁ49,446)Lionel Messi – €50,517 (ÂŁ44,598)Heung-Min Son – €48,907 (ÂŁ41,221)Cristiano Ronaldo – €45,012 (ÂŁ39,148)Lionel Messi – €43,623 (ÂŁ38,689)Cristiano Ronaldo – €43,206 (ÂŁ36,942)Lionel Messi – €42,786 (ÂŁ36,786)Cole Palmer – €41,127 (ÂŁ34,411)Lionel Messi – €37,405 (ÂŁ33,372)THE BIGGER PICTURE
Ronaldo and Messi will go down as some of the greatest footballers of all time, with the debate raging on about who is the best. But football fans have been truly privileged to see the Al-Nassr ace and the Inter Milan star play for so long. Despite being in the winter years of their careers, fans still clamour for a piece of them.
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The MWS website states that there are still four days and four hours left, at the time of writing, for fans to bid for Ronaldo's Portugal shirt. The ex-Manchester United and Real Madrid man is clearly still a phenomenon in the sport.