The was found Golden Ball won by Diego Armando Maradona after the 1986 World Cup. The relic had been stolen from Naples in 1989.
The precious object will be auctioned next June 6, 2024: found in 2016as reported by the French newspaper The Teamits authenticity was only ascertained last year April 2. Its value is estimated to be between 12 hey 15 million euros.
Ballon d’Or Maradona, the story of the theft told by Il Mattino
The morning reported the story of that millionaire theft: “Giuseppe Misso’s clan, hegemonic in healthcare and specialized in billion-dollar robberies, pulled off a sensational coup. Eight of them entered the vault of branch B of the Banca della Provincia di Napoli which was in via Manna, a side street of via Duomo in Naples. They entered through a hole in a wall at 2.20 pm. They wore Carnival masks so as not to be recognized and were armed. Some arrived from the perforated wall, others from the sewers. They took 420 million from the coffers, which was pennies compared to what they wanted to take from the safes in the basement of the bank, which was accessed by a five-metre spiral staircase.”.
“Taking 14 bank employees hostage, the robbers were accompanied to the cash register rooms. There were 400 in total, but to be quick they opened only about sixty and took everything that was inside. After an hour, while someone called the police, the group fled with their precious loot. The head of the Flying Squad, Francesco Cirillo, now retired, who finished his career as deputy police chief, will take care of the robbery. The coup was billions. Among the 400 cassettes, there were also 4 registered to Claudia, then Maradona’s next wife. The robbers opened two, which were part of the 60 stolen. Claudia Villafane, accompanied by the lawyer Marinella De Nigris, presented her complaint to the police station like all the victims of the robbery, leaving an inventory of what was no longer there”.
“A trophy presented to Diego during a ceremony at the famous “Lido” club in the Champs Elisèe in Paris”
“The cassettes number 71 and 404 stolen from Claudia Villafane contained the trophy that the magazine “France football” had given to Maradona in 1986 as the best player of that year’s World Cup. A trophy presented to Diego during a ceremony at the famous “Lido” club in the Champs Elisèe in Paris. It was then that Maradona met Careca for the first time, who was also awarded on that occasion.”
“In the boxes of the champion and his future wife, then, many jewels of his daughters Dalma and Giannina, including a set of necklaces, earrings, bracelets with turquoises, a set of diamonds, a Rolex gold watch with diamonds, seven watches among including an expensive Cartier, a diamond tiara gift from Diego’s manager for the birthday of the Argentine champion’s first daughter with the writing Dalmita, then many chains and different jewels. The damage was estimated at around one billion. But for Diego the precious object was that Golden Ball, even if it was perhaps the least expensive of all the stolen jewels”, reported the Campania newspaper”.
