Argentina: tie, BMW, family home … Goods from Maradona sold at auction

To pay off the debts of the Argentine football legend, his family decided to auction 87 properties that had belonged to him.

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Posted on 12/18/2021 5:23 PM Updated on 12/18/2021 6:56 PM

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Notice to amateurs. From a tie at his parents’ house, to two BMW cars and a cigar humidor, 87 items that belonged to Argentine football legend Diego Maradona will be auctioned off on Sunday, December 19, at a sale in international line to Buenos Aires. The lots are offered with starting prices ranging from 50 dollars (44 euros) to 900,000 dollars (800,000 euros), Adrian Mercado, auction manager, told AFP, which will be used to pay off the star’s debts, died November 25, 2020.

“The children made a great selection of things, the most emotional things, the things with a lot of memories, with a lot of passion, were kept by the family”, explained Mercado of this sale ordered by the Argentinian justice. in agreement with the heirs of the 1986 World Cup winner in Mexico.

The property up for auction is the one that was offered by Maradona to his parents in the early 1980s, when the “10” was playing for Boca Juniors. It is located in the residential area of ​​Villa Devoto, in Buenos Aires. Two recent models of BMW cars are also being auctioned off, valued at $ 225,000 and $ 165,000 each (200,000 and 146,000 euros).

There is also a 2015 Hyundai pickup truck at $ 38,000 (33,000 euros and a two-room apartment in the resort town of Mar del Plata (400 km south of Buenos Aires), for which auctions will start at $ 65,000. (57,000 euros). More modest, the treadmill that the former Napoli player used when he lived in Dubai, will be priced at 3,500 dollars (3,000 euros) a photo of Maradona with Fidel Castro at 400 dollars (355 euros) and a cigar humidor for 300 dollars (266 euros).

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