{"product_id":"framed-autographed-signed-ricardo-kaka-35x39-brazil-yellow-soccer-futbol-jersey-beckett-bas-coa","title":"Framed Autographed\/Signed Ricardo Kaka 35x39 Brazil Yellow Soccer Futbol Jersey Beckett BAS COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚽ \u003cstrong\u003eFramed Autographed\/Signed Ricardo Kaká 35x39 Brazil Yellow Soccer Futbol Jersey Beckett BAS COA – Hand-Signed by the 2007 FIFA Ballon d'Or Winner, the AC Milan Attacking Midfielder Whose 2006–07 UEFA Champions League Season Stands Among the Most Individually Dominant Campaigns in the History of European Club Football, Two-Time World Player of the Year, and 2002 FIFA World Cup Champion With Brazil – Authenticated by Beckett BAS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚽ The yellow jersey of the Brazil national football team carries a weight that no other garment in the sport can match – the accumulated legacy of five World Cup championships, of Pelté in Sweden and Garrincha in Chile and Ronaldo in Japan, of a playing tradition so distinctive and so consistent in its brilliance that the canary yellow has become shorthand for the most celebrated attacking football the sport has ever produced. Ricardo Kaká put on that yellow jersey for the first time in a senior international fixture in 2002 as a twenty-year-old, and he wore it through a debut World Cup campaign in South Korea and Japan that ended with Brazil lifting the FIFA World Cup for a fifth time in Yokohama. His contributions to that tournament were those of a player still becoming what he would eventually fully be – a support role on a squad built around Ronaldo and Rivaldo and Ronaldinho – but the yellow shirt already fit him in the way it fits the players who go on to define eras. This framed autographed Brazil yellow soccer jersey, authenticated by Beckett BAS, carries his signature on the garment most associated with his international legacy. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚽ The five years between the 2002 World Cup and the 2007 Ballon d'Or produced the career arc that made Ricardo Kaká one of the most discussed players in the sport's history. At AC Milan from 2003 through 2009, he developed into the complete attacking midfielder that the Brazilian technical tradition had always suggested he could become – a player whose combination of pace off the dribble, passing range, and clinical finishing produced numbers that held up against any player at any club in Europe during those seasons. The 2006–07 UEFA Champions League season was the peak of it. Kaká finished the competition as its leading scorer, driving Milan through the group stage and knockout rounds with performances in the semifinal against Manchester United – where he scored twice over two legs as Milan won 5–3 on aggregate – that were so complete they defined his reputation for the decade that followed. Milan beat Liverpool 2–1 in the Athens final. Kaká won the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year Award for 2007 – the last player other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or until Luka Modrić in 2018. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚽ Real Madrid paid a transfer fee of approximately €68 million for Kaká in the summer of 2009 – a world record at that moment, announced alongside the simultaneous acquisition of Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United in a summer that redefined what European clubs were willing to spend on individual players. His years in Madrid were complicated by injury and by the presence of a supporting cast that made individual brilliance harder to isolate, but the player who signed that yellow jersey had already accomplished more by 2009 than most careers produce across their full span. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚽ Beckett Authentication Services verified the Ricardo Kaká signature on this framed 35x39 Brazil yellow soccer futbol jersey. The 2007 Ballon d'Or. The 2007 UEFA Champions League. The 2002 FIFA World Cup. All of it in a single autographed piece. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ Ricardo Kaká. Brazil National Team. Autographed Yellow Soccer Jersey. BAS COA. 2007 Ballon d'Or. 2002 World Cup Champion. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039644233960,"sku":"FJ-KAKA-BRAZIL-YELLOW-BAS","price":649.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/framed-autographed-signed-ricardo-kaka-35x39-brazil-yellow-soccer-futbol-jersey-beckett-350.webp?v=1770220480","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/framed-autographed-signed-ricardo-kaka-35x39-brazil-yellow-soccer-futbol-jersey-beckett-bas-coa","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}