The three-day sale of memorabilia belonging to world football icon Pele ended in London with the artefacts sold for the princely total of 3.4million ($5 million, 4.4million euros). Julien's had extra reason to be happy as they had placed an original total estimate of $3 million on the memorabilia. Wednesday's auction had seen the most money shelled out on a replica of the Jules Rimet trophy made for Pele after his third World Cup success which fetched $395,000. Another Pele item to make big money on Thursday was his 1000th game crown which eventually went for $162,000. "It was a white glove auction where 100% of all the lots sold," Darren Julien, Chief Executive of Julien's auctions told AFP.

Source: dna June 10, 2016 05:20 UTC