Amazing! Messi's shoes break auction record

The star set the record for the highest price ever bid for a used shoe from soccer, by selling the shoes to benefit a child health program

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The soccer star Lionel Messi auctioned the shoes with which he beat Pelé as the top scorer in a same team, and got an incredible figure that will be allocated to a program of the Vall d’Hebron hospital , in Barcelona.

The sale was made online this Friday, and was managed to raise a total of $ 172, 000 Dollars, which will contribute to children’s health.

After beating the mark of ‘O Rei’, of 550 goals , in a match against Valladolid, the Argentine star’s shoes have flipped lto sign another record when auctioned for the highest price ever bid for a used soccer shoe , a title previously held by the boots worn by Frenchman Paul Pogba in the final of the World Cup in Russia 2018, sold by 37, 02 euros, indicated the EFE agency.

🤑 ¡143 A THOUSAND EUROS! 🤑

The boots with which Lionel Messi broke Pele’s record for the most goals with a single team set a new collection mark

Christie’s auction exceeded the 37 thousand euros of studs used by Paul Pogba in Russia 2018 # CentralFOX pic.twitter.com/cjE3WCuQ04

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After his historic goal 644, Messi donated his Adidas to the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), which agreed with the blaugrana auction rlas to dedicate the benefits to the “Art and Health” program , an initiative that the museum carries out carried out together with the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and the Catalan Health Institute.

Through various activities, the project delves into art as a therapeutic and preventive tool to improve the physical and emotional health of children and their families , a cause that for Messi means being able to “give something back to all the children who fight for their health,” said the Argentine in a statement. .

The shoes, both signed by the ’10 ‘of Barça, the inscriptions “Antonella Roccuzzo” (Messi’s partner) and “Thiago , Mateo and Ciro ”(their three children) with their birth dates, a personalization visibly worn by the comings and goings on the pitch.

Even for the London auction house Christie’s, used to dealing every day with “wonderful objects”, it is unusual “match a pair of shoes of such importance that belong to a player who is still a hero and who continues to fulfill “, remarked to Efe Zita Gibson, director of private and iconic collections.