{"id":20156,"date":"2025-04-14T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20156\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:52:13","slug":"former-england-star-sells-iconic-italia-90-world-cup-shirts-for-more-than-100000-to-mystery-bidder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20156\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England star sells iconic Italia 90 World Cup shirts for more than \u00a3100,000 to mystery bidder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A FORMER England star has sold his collection of iconic Italia 90 kits for a six-figure price.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ex-defender Mark Wright swapped shirts with several opponents on England<\/a>‘s route to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

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Former England defender Mark Wright has sold his shirt collection from Italia 90Credit: Getty\"Seven<\/a><\/p>\n

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The collection sold for over \u00a3100,000Credit: SWNS<\/p>\n

And as a result, he amassed a collection which included jerseys worn by Ireland<\/a>\u2019s Andy Townsend, West Germany\u2019s Klaus Augenthaler and Italy<\/a>\u2019s Giuseppe Giannini.<\/p>\n

Shirts from Netherlands<\/a> winger Johannes van’t Schip, Egypt\u2019s Saber Eid, Belgium\u2019s Marc van der Linden and Cameroon<\/a>\u2019s Emmanuel Kunde were also auctioned.<\/p>\n

England kicked off their 1990 World Cup<\/a> campaign with draws against Ireland and Netherlands before defeating Egypt in the final group stage match thanks to a 59th-minute winner from Wright.<\/p>\n

The Three Lions then beat Belgium in the last-16 before coming from behind to defeat Cameroon 3-2 in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

However, they were knocked out by West Germany on penalties in the semis.<\/p>\n

The seven shirts collected by Wright during the tournament were accompanied by the defender’s match-worn 1992 FA Cup<\/a> final jersey from his Liverpool<\/a> days, as well as six of his England caps.<\/p>\n

The collection was sold for over \u00a3100,000 at an auction at Wembley Stadium last week.<\/p>\n

Before the sale, Wright said: “I feel very proud when I look at the shirts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I think how lucky I was to play in a World Cup and against these teams.<\/p>\n

“The most significant one for me was the Irish one as it was my mate Andy Townsend. To swap with a great mate was fantastic.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t remember [swapping most of them] but I remember the German one obviously losing the semi-final and you’re switching.<\/p>\n

“If I’m honest I didn’t really want to switch that one.”<\/p>\n

The shirts and caps were purchased by a private UK-based buyer.<\/p>\n

Wright was capped 45 times by England and scored one goal.<\/p>\n

He also played for Liverpool, Southampton<\/a> and Derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A FORMER England star has sold his collection of iconic Italia 90 kits for a six-figure price. Ex-defender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,36,1824,4884,2199,763,1477,13136,189,190,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-20156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-liverpool-fc","15":"tag-netherlands","16":"tag-republic-of-ireland","17":"tag-section-sportfootball","18":"tag-section-sportfootballpremier-league","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114338302842589716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}