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The captain’s armband that Cristiano Ronaldo flung to the bottom in disgust after Portugal have been denied an injury-time winner towards Serbia was offered at a charity public sale for 64,000 euros ($75,000) to an nameless bidder.
With seconds to go whereas the rating within the 2022 World Cup qualifier was 2-2 in Belgrade, Ronaldo thought he had netted the essential objective, when the ball appeared to cross the goalline earlier than Stefan Mitrovic cleared.
However with out video expertise in use, the objective was not awarded.
A fuming Ronaldo acquired a yellow card for his protests and on the closing whistle, as he stormed from the pitch, he threw his captain’s armband to the bottom.
Djordje Vukicevic, an area firemen who was deployed on the stadium, picked it up and instantly contacted a regional sports activities channel with the thought of auctioning it for charity.
Vukicevic advised AFP on Tuesday that he prompt elevating funds required to deal with a six-month-old child, Gavrilo Djurdjevic, who suffers from a uncommon illness.
The toddler is battling spinal muscular atrophy, a illness which impacts about one in 10,000 births, and leads to loss of life or the necessity for everlasting air flow by the age of two in 90 p.c of circumstances.
After the sports activities channel Sportklub verified the merchandise’s authenticity by checking post-match photographs and movies, they teamed up with a charity organisation and put Ronaldo’s armband up for a bidding contest on auctioning web site Limundo.com.
The 64,000 euros gathered on the public sale represents solely a fraction of the quantity wanted for the child’s therapy, as his hopes are pinned on the “world’s most costly drug”, the therapy that prices round two million euros ($2.36 million).
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