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Pele shirt sells for $4.9m as New York chokes on wildfire smoke days before the World Cup final

A 1958 jersey worn by Pele cleared $4.9m at Sotheby's in New York, while officials across the metropolitan region issued an air quality alert days before the World Cup final, a coincidence that put the host city's two competing identities on the same front page.

Ruari Blackwood · Monexus Sports desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·18 Jul 2026·Live on the wire ↗
A soccer player in a white jersey with the number 21 runs toward a ball on a green field during a FIFA World Cup match.
A soccer player in a white jersey with the number 21 runs toward a ball on a green field during a FIFA World Cup match. @CBS SPORTS HEADLINES · Telegram

Desk note: Monexus treated the auction and the air-quality alert as a single front-page cluster only because they shared a city, a date and a wire cycle; the underlying stories are mechanically unrelated and have been reported as such.

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