Pele’s 1958 World Cup winners’ medal is expected to fetch £500,000 ($670,000) when it is auctioned in England later this month.
The medal, won by the Brazilian legend when he was a teenager, is part of a catalogue of 450 World Cup-related items being sold by sporting memorabilia specialists BUDDS, which estimates they will fetch £2 million in total.
A Brazil shirt won by Pele in the 1958 final is estimated to sell for more than $6 million in a separate auction at Sotheby’s in New York, which runs June 29 to July 16 — three days before this year’s World Cup final.
Pele, then just 17 years old, scored two of Brazil’s five goals in the 1958 final against host nation Sweden.
The victory marked the first of Brazil’s record five World Cup titles, three of which were spearheaded by the striker known as “The King”.
Pele, born Edson
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