Maradona, Tepito and the mystery behind a Sh1.2 billion shirt
A player wears a t-shirt reading "Bye number 10 ! Rest in peace" with a portrait of Diego Maradona to pay homage to the late Argentinian football legend ahead of the French L1 match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Girondins de Bordeaux (FCGB) at the Parc de Princes stadium in Paris on November 28, 2020.
Before Diego Maradona's famous blue shirt became a $9.28 million auction item, it may have had a humbler beginning in Tepito, Mexico City's market district where, as filmmaker Phidel McCabe puts it, "you can find literally anything."
The Manchester-born filmmaker, who lives in Mexico City, has made "El Diez: Made in Tepito", a documentary exploring how Argentina ended up wearing a shiny blue shirt on June 22, 1986, when Maradona scored twice with his "Hand of God" and "Goal of the Century" versus England at the Azteca Stadium.
