Lionel Messi breaks another record! Argentina star’s World Cup-winning match shirt expected to sell for highest-ever auction fee - beating amount set by Diego Maradana’s 1986 jersey

The set of six shirts, including those worn during the group stage, Round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final, have already attracted bids as high as $6.5 million, with expectations that the final amount could reach $10 million with bidding process set to end on Thursday. Messi finished the tournament with seven goals and three assists, receiving the Golden Ball as the best player and the Silver Boot as the second-highest scorer.

If the lot surpasses $10.1 million, it will establish a new record for the highest price paid for sports tops, surpassing Michael Jordan's jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals. Moreover, it could also become the most expensive football kit ever sold, comfortably surpassing the £7,142,500 paid for Diego Maradona's shirt from the 1986 World Cup.

In the catalogue, Messi has been quoted: “It was amazing. Everything changed for me that day. We finally got what we had dreamed of so much, the thing I’ve wanted for so long in my career. And it finally came at the end.”

A portion of the proceeds will support the Unicas project, aiding children with rare diseases through Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital and the Leo Messi Foundation.

The World Cup completed Messi's trophy cabinet as he now boasts of winning the Copa America and Finalissima trophies with Argentina. He is currently on a break from football and will return to action with Inter Miami next February once the new MLS season kicks off.