The trophy was in use from 1896 to 1910 and was awarded to many famous teams including Manchester United, Manchester City, Everton, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur. The oldest FA Cupīonhams has a strong record of selling sporting memorabilia in 2020, it sold the oldest Football Association (FA) Cup, one of the most valuable football trophies in the world. Bonhams has always aimed to push boundaries in our sales and to be the first auction house to offer an NFT of this kind is a very exciting prospect, particularly as this NFT is of the great Cristiano Ronaldo,” said Sagharchi. “Sorare presents us with the natural evolution of this format, a fantasy trading card game in digital form with cards that accrue rewards. As with traditional fantasy football, teams are ranked based on the performance of their players on the real-world football pitch. The game uses blockchain technology based on Ethereum and was developed in 2018 by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montford. The Sorare platform allows players to buy, sell, trade and manage a virtual team with digital playing cards. They come in three formats: unique, or 1 of 1 super rare, or 1 of 10 and rare, or 1 of 100. The supply of Sorare cards is limited, and the use of the blockchain means that the digital cards have provable scarcity. The auction house said it is accepting ether as a means of payment. The auction will start on 1 November and end on 11 November. The Ronaldo card on offer is unique and, as one the greatest players of the modern era, arguably the most desirable card in the game,” Sagharchi added.

“Sports trading cards have been valued and collected for over a century, and 2021 is very much the year of the sports card with physical cards representing Lebron James, Luka Dončić and Tom Brady each already having sold for millions of dollars. The card shows him in the black and white kit of Juventus, but is still usable in the game despite Ronaldo’s transfer to Manchester United.īonhams’ head of digital art, Nima Sagharchi, said to : “ The sale of the Ronaldo card is a first for us but as we expand our activities in the field of NFT’s and digital art it is an area we hope to develop in the future. The NFT is a unique card of the five-time Ballon d’Or winner, minted for the 2020/2021 season by the fantasy football platform and is officially licensed by the player and his team. London-based auction house Bonhams has announced it is to auction off a one-of-a-kind Cristiano Ronaldo non-fungible token (NFT) trading card, minted by Sorare, estimated to be worth between $800,000 and $1.2m.

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