Stiles 1966 World Cup medal sets record at auction

A 1966 World Cup winner’s medal owned by England football hero Nobby Stiles set a new world record after being sold at auction in Scotland on Wednesday.

Stiles’s gold medal was snapped up for 188,200 pounds (297,000 dollars, 215,000 euros) by the player’s former club Manchester United — a world record figure for any football medal sold at auction.

United plan to put the object in the club’s museum. United also paid 49,400 pounds for Stiles’s winner’s medal from the Red Devils’ 1968 European Cup triumph over Benfica at Wembley, a spokeswoman from Convery Auctions told AFP.

The cap Stiles earned from the 1966 World Cup final, when hosts England beat West Germany 4-2 after extra time, went for 35,287 pounds.

Stiles, 68, told the BBC he was selling his memorabilia to help provide for his family.

“It was always my intention to leave the entire collection to my children,” Stiles said.

“But I have three sons — how do you fairly divide up this sort of collection between them?

“They have each selected some pieces they would like to keep for themselves.”

The tough-tackling Stiles played 28 times for England between 1965 and 1970, scoring once.