Pele memorabilia up for pre-Cup auction

Rio de Janeiro: A Brazilian football fan hopes to net thousands of dollars from the auction of Pele memorabilia, including the shirt the legend wore for his last appearance in a Brazil shirt, media reported Wednesday.

The fan, 38-year-old Marcos Batista, is selling off around 100 items he has collected over 30 years, including stamps commemorating Pele`s 1,000th goal, figurines, picture albums and comics. The shirt`s list price is 4,000 reais ($1700) with the next most expensive lot a poster in Spanish promoting a 1962 documentary on the star, who won his first World Cup aged 17 four years earlier. The asking price for the `King Pele` poster is 3,000 reais, Folha de Sao Paulo reported.