The football boots with which Paul Pogba won the World Cup
for France last year were sold for 30,000 euros ($33,470) at a Paris auction on
Monday.
The Manchester United midfielder, who scored France’s third goal
in the 4-2 victory over Croatia, had donated them to a French charity which
helps high school students from tough areas.
Christie’s
auction house had hoped that the boots would go for between 35,000 and 50,000
euros.
Pogba, who grew
up on a deprived estate in the Paris suburbs, also donated the France shirt he
wore during the team’s victory over Iceland in the Euro 2016 quarter final, in
which he also scored.
It sold for
4,000 euros – four times the estimation.
Pogba holds the 2018 World Cup trophy aloft after France’s win
over Croatia
And another
shirt which he wore in a 2017 World Cup qualification game against Holland went
for three times its estimate at 3,000 euros.
The gifted
midfielder’s uneven form for Manchester United has made him a target for
criticism, which may explain why a shirt he wore for the club in a game against
West Ham in 2017 only sold for 400 euros.
And a number of
other shirts did not sell at all, including one he wore for the Italian club
Juventus in their Champions League victory over Manchester City in 2015.
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