Last Updated: March 11, 2023, 10:50 IST
Emiliano Martinez after successful the golden glove at FIFA World Cup
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Emiliano Martinez’s FIFA World Cup-winning gloves have been auctioned for $45,000 in support of a youngsters’s most cancers hospital
The gloves worn by Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano “Dibu” Martinez in the nail-biting penalty shootout with France at Qatar’s World Cup final last year were auctioned Friday for $45,000 in aid of a children’s cancer hospital.
“$45,000 for the Dibu gloves to help the Garrahan boys!” the Argentine Pediatric Foundation stated on Instagram, referring to the oncology ward of the Garrahan Hospital, the primary pediatric hospital in Argentina.
The public sale was held on-line Friday and featured Martinez through video-link from his residence in England, the place he performs for Aston Villa.
The gloves have been worn by Martinez as he confronted the penalty shootout in opposition to France within the last in Qatar, with Argentina successful 4-2, granting Lionel Messi’s group the championship after drawing the match 3-3 in further time.
“When they gave me the choice to donate the World Cup gloves, I didn’t hesitate, it’s a great trigger for the boys,” stated the goalkeeper throughout the occasion.
Martinez had autographed the inside of the gloves when announcing the donation in February.
“The World Cup finals are not played every day, (the gloves) are special. But it helps a child much more than me having them hanging in a frame in my house,” he stated.
Martinez additionally revealed the rationale behind his celebration after successful the golden glove on the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
“It was simply foolish issues for me. It’s one thing I’m not happy with to be honest as a result of I had accomplished it within the Copa America. My mate was saying ‘I bet you’re not going to do the identical because the Copa America within the World Cup’. I say ‘yes, I’m going to do it’,” Martinez told GOAL.
“So I’ve done the same celebration that I’ve done in the Copa America. Seeing all the things afterwards and all the criticism, I should not really have done it. So that’s the only thing I’m not proud of from the World Cup.”
(With inputs from Agencies)
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