Team: ARGENTINA NATIONAL TEAM #17
Season: 1979
Competition: EUROPE TOUR
Game:  IRELAND vs ARGENTINA (0-0) (* info as reference tour game)
Date: 29/05/1979 | Landsdowne Road | Dublín, Ireland. (* info as reference tour game)
Player: DIEGO MARADONA
Lot Type: AMAZING PROVENANCE | MUSEUM PIECE

COA: FULL “Dream Auctions” COA signed by Dream and current owner. Winner Bidder will have the chance to have a personalized video  from the former Diego Maradona Assistant who received this jersey by Diego himself during their time togueter.

PROVENANCE: UNIQUE! Amazing and unique provenance that  comes direct from former Diego Maradona assistant Gabriel Buono. Buono accompanied Diego Maradona for more than 14 years as his personal assistant, even through difficult personal times like his stay in Cuba and other joyful times like the beginning of his time as coach of the Argentine national team in 2010.
Photos proof attached about his close ( and public) relationshioship with Maradona.

SEE PHOTO PROOF ABOUT PROVENANCE HOLDING UP THE AUCTIONED JERSEY.

Gabriel Buono: "During one of the many moves I made with him, I asked Diego for it, and he told me that he had worn this shirt on a tour in Europe in '78, '79 (it was '79). I send you a hug."

NOTE 1: TREASURE WORN/ISSUED IN EUROPEAN TOUR. Shirt comes from his personal collection and for the first time after many years he decided to share it. Jersey given by Diego himself to him during those years togueter as a close friends, and as he remembered declared by Diego as the jersey worn in that european tour, so after we checked press notes from the age, particularly number #17 was worn against Ireland on May 29,th, 1979 at the Landsdowne Road in Dublín. So Tour matches as declared by provenance. SEE PHOTO PROOF ABOUT DIEGO MARADONA  WEARING NUMBER  #17 vs IRELAND.

In that match, however, Argentina mostly played with long sleeve, but image about Diego is not clear even it seems like wearing kind a first layer under the jersey as there is notable difference between jersey before elbow and after elbow in both arms, but we can not be sure that so auctioned jersey could be a  issued spare kit for Diego for that tour and particularly for that match.

NOTE 2: 79 YEAR OF CHANGES FOR DIEGO. Shirt witness to a time of many changes for Diego, where he had just been released from the 1978 World Cup by Menotti in the adult team and after the World Cup he began to be called up to the national team again, including this tour to Europe, in times where when alternating with the starters he used various numbers on the back (before the mythical 10), such as 6, 9  and this wonderful 17 that for the first time leaves the safekeeping of his personal secretary for decades, and hopes to remain in the best hands of collectors in the world. 

NOTE 3: INVESTMENT. This home jersey with amazing provenance in an inhedit witness from one of the most magic and talented player of all time , maybe the greatest, and can be considered a museum and investment piece for any real Maradona´s fans or any prestigious international museum. So due the provenance  this piece become an amazing  and rare relic of sports history .

NOTE 4: Jersey in pristine condition and was storaged for 45 ayear, first though Diego and then by his personal assitant.

FEATURES:

• Made in: Argentina - Adidas trademark.
• Hand knitted wool shirt. -Not available in shops
• Back number in pristine black felt material
• Team shield painter with black felt borderline.
• Small size Adidas embroidered oin the right front side.
• Size : 40 . Hand written from the age on the label segurely by kitman or Diego himself.

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