The search continues, the mystery rolls on. Will see a hat-trick of calamitous events for Brazil, or will it be third time lucky for the country that has probably made a bigger contribution than any other to the history of the World Cup?

Paul Gadsby is the author of the crime novel Chasing the Game , a fictional depiction of the theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy in London — Paulgadsbyauthor.

World Cup. World Cup mystery: what happened to the original Jules Rimet trophy? It evaded the Nazis, was found by Pickles the dog, and went on to be stolen from Brazil in , presumed melted into gold bars — but could the original World Cup trophy still exist?

Paul Gadsby. Fri 13 Jun Now there is yet another chance to acquire AJs worn by the basketball legend. Representative image of Air Jordan shoes.

Up for grabs are three pairs of AJs. All of them are likely to fetch at least a half a million dollars. Chase Seiffert. Kyoung-Hoon Lee. Michael Gellerman.

Keith Mitchell. Harold Varner III. Aaron Baddeley. Bronson Burgoon. Michael Gligic. Henrik Norlander. Graeme McDowell. Sebastian Munoz. Chesson Hadley.

Ollie Schniederjans. Kristoffer Ventura. Rafa Cabrera Bello. Denny McCarthy. Brendan Steele. Scott Harrington. Russell Henley. Joseph Bramlett.

Armando Favela. Aaron Terrazas. It depicts two human figures holding up the Earth. The current holders of the trophy are France , winners of the World Cup.

It was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur and made of gold-plated sterling silver on a lapis lazuli base.

This was the same ship that carried Jules Rimet and the footballers representing France, Romania, and Belgium who were participating in the tournament that year.

The first team to be awarded the trophy was Uruguay , the winners of the World Cup. As Brazilian captain Hilderaldo Bellini heard photographers' requests for a better view of the Jules Rimet Trophy, he lifted it up in the air.

Every Cup-winning captain ever since has repeated the gesture. As a security measure, The Football Association secretly manufactured a replica of the trophy for use in exhibitions rather than the original.

This replica was used on subsequent occasions up until when the original trophy had to be handed back to FIFA for the next competition.

Since FIFA had explicitly denied the FA permission to create a replica, the replica also had to disappear from public view and was for many years kept under its creator's bed.

Subsequent testing by FIFA, however, confirmed the auctioned trophy was indeed a replica [11] and FIFA soon afterwards arranged for the replica to be lent for display at the English National Football Museum , which was then based in Preston but is now in Manchester.

The Brazilian team won the tournament for the third time in , allowing them to keep the real trophy in perpetuity, as had been stipulated by Jules Rimet in On 19 December , the wooden rear of the cabinet was opened by force with a crowbar and the cup was stolen again.

The Confederation commissioned a replica of their own, made by Eastman Kodak , using 1. The two men entered the Brazilian Football Confederation CBF 's building and, after incapacitating the nightwatchman, stole the trophy and two other trophies, "Equitativa" and "Jurrito".

A safecracker, Antonio Setta a. In addition, doubts were raised because the trophy was not made of solid gold; it could not be melted into gold bars, and according to Pedro Berwanger, the Brazilian federal police officer who led the original investigation, it would be worth much more if left intact.

Chico Barbudo was shot to death in by five men in a bar. Luiz Bigode was re-arrested and freed from jail in Antonio Setta died in a car accident in , as he was going to the police central to testify on the crime.

He was freed from jail in , having never served the penalty for receiving stolen goods that he would incur for the trophy. He died of a heart attack in The trophy has never been recovered.

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