The family of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona took immediate legal measures to try to return the “Golden Ball”, which the late star obtained in 1986, before it was sold at public auction.
The family of the legend Maradona discovered only a few weeks ago that the award will be sold at a public auction that will be held on June 6, in the Neuilly-sur-Seine area near Paris.
According to the five heirs, the award that Maradona received after being named the best player in the World Cup in 1986, which he received in November of the same year, at the famous Lido nightclub in Paris, was stolen during a bank robbery in October 1989 in Naples. .
Lawyers for the heirs of the late legend Diego Maradona said that the sale of the “Golden Ball” in France should be frozen, and they pointed out that the ball found by an antiques dealer is legally theirs.
“The family is determined to recover this (Golden) Ball,” Lola Chonet, one of the family’s lawyers, said before the Nanterre judicial court. “The Argentine people are determined to recover this Ball.”
For his part, Arthur Gaulier, representative of the auction organizers, explained that “trying to claim ownership without filing a complaint, 35 years after the alleged theft, is an opportunistic approach that justice cannot condone.”
Lawyers for the Agot Auction House and the cup seller said yesterday, Thursday, that the Maradona family did not provide clear evidence of the complaint filed at that time.
In a press statement, Maximilian Agot, director of the house that bears his name, said that one of the "myths" circulating about the award says that Maradona forgot it at the "Lido" nightclub in Paris on the same evening at the award ceremony.
The former gallery owner and antiques dealer says that he acquired it at an auction in 2016, among a group of hundreds of prizes, many of which were of little value, before he realized after completing the purchase that one of the pieces could be Maradona’s Golden Ball.
The court will make its decision on May 30 to confirm whether or not the prize will be sold at auction.
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