the history of Christie's football sales

that it has realised so much." Banks said the decision to sell was difficult - the 4-2 cup final victory over West Germany at Wembley was the greatest day of his career. But the former Leicester and Stoke City keeper wants to save his children the...
16 October 2006

Top shirt sponsorships

the name of Deutsche Telekom's international arm, T-Mobile. Perhaps the Baggies, as Albion is nicknamed, should move to Germany, Europe's biggest media market. There the average shirt sponsorship for a team in the bottom five of the top league is $2.9...
13 October 2006

ferenc puskas memorabilia sold

by IFFHS” Estimate £2,500 – 3,000 The 1954 World Cup Runners-up medal awarded to Puskas after a nail-biting final in which Germany won 3-2, with a late goal by Puskas controversially disallowed to deny favourites Hungary a chance to maintain their...
28 September 2006

Christie's Football memorabilia auction 13-09-2006

crew-neck collar and printed badge inscribed Italia, FIGC, right sleeve with embroidered badge, inscribed FIFA World Cup, Germany 2006, the reverse lettered Perrotta Estimate : 1,000 - 1,500 British pounds Lot notes : The above shirt was worn by Simone...
04 September 2006

find out about life of a kit designer

- and now she gets some of the world's top sports stars dressed for success. A member of the adidas design team based in Germany, Ffion has helped kit out the likes of Zinedine Zidane and Jonah Lomu. And because the job means having to keep up to date...
03 September 2006

Exhibition Hong Kong - the story of football

is a global phenomenon that has no boundaries in race or geography. While the World Cup 2006 is proceeding at full steam in Germany, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the National Football Museum in England have joined forces to present...
23 August 2006

Catch the shirts of '66

1966 as, in the final moments of extra time, Geoff Hurst powered home his third goal to give England a 4-2 victory against Germany in the World Cup final. As Beckham and the boys set out to replicate this awe-inspiring moment 40 years later, what has...
22 August 2006

Christie's auction 06-2006 World Cup memorabilia

could fetch up to £45,000. More modest investors can pick up Stephen Gerrard's boots from England's famous 5-1 drubbing of Germany in 2001, in which he scored the second goal, for an estimated £550. Masochistic fans might want to go for the shirt worn...
21 August 2006

christie's football memorabilia auction 2004

to a telephone bidder who is a private collector, while Paul Gascoigne's shirt from the 1990 World Cup Semi-Final against Germany, in which he cried football's most famous tears, sold for £28,680. The buyer of the Gascoigne shirt was UK provate buyer,...
20 August 2006

World cup 2006 Adidas, Nike and puma

ADIDAS have sponsored six national teams in the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 .These are Argentina, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. The company have sponsored other national squads including Greece, Nigeria and China but they failed to...
19 August 2006