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Big-ticket Items Go Unsold in Auction of Diego Maradona Assets

A digital public sale of some 90 objects owned by late soccer famous person Diego Maradona on Sunday failed to draw any large bidders, with a seaside condominium, two BMWs and the home he had purchased for his mother and father among the many bigger objects failing to promote.

More than 1,500 potential bidders — in Latin America, Italy, France, England, Russia and Dubai — had signed up to participate, its organizers stated.

But by the top of the three-hour affair, gross sales totaled solely $26,000, with greater than $1.4 million in property unbid on, in accordance with AFP calculations.

The morning’s highest bid went to a portray of the world-class footballer titled “Between Fiorito and the Sky,” by artist Lu Sedova. It sold for $2,150.

It was followed by a photograph of Maradona with late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, purchased for $1,600 by a buyer in Dubai.

“Auctions are like that — one cannot know the result until it is over,” stated organizer Adrian Mercado on the conclusion of the sale. “We anticipated a lot, however the actuality is that it’s all the time unknown.”

The biggest-ticket items included the house in Buenos Aires that a young Maradona purchased for his parents (valued at $900,000) and an apartment in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata ($65,000).

Also unsold were two barely driven BMW cars, a 2017 model valued at $225,000 and a 2016 model at $165,000, as well as a Hyundai van, at $38,000.

Among other items that did sell: a painting of Marilyn Monroe was purchased by an Argentine bidder for $1,500; a team jacket from Naples with his famous number 10 on the back was purchased for $1,500 from an admirer in Dubai; someone in Germany paid $270 for training pants Maradona wore with Borussia Dortmund; and a box of Cuban cigars brought $550 from a fellow Argentine.

But there was no interest in his six television sets or the gym equipment he trained on in Dubai.

The sale had been ordered by Judge Luciana Tedesco to pay the debts and expenses accrued by the estate of Maradona, who died of cardiac arrest on November 25, 2020.

The court will now have to decide what to do with the unsold items.

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